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If you want to make money online then affiliate marketing is the best way to get started. I think some 90% of internet marketers have started with affiliate marketing. Anyone can make profits online, people just need a little help to get them started. In this short article I will give you 5 simple steps to get started.

Choose a market that is profitable

I can make your choice from thousands of different niches. Choose something that you are interested in or whee you have expert knowledge. Do some research and find out the potential of the market. Obviously the less competition there is, the better for you. You can use the Google keyword tool, to find out how many people search for a specific keyword a month.

Choose a profitable affiliate product

Clickbank.com is the biggest marketplace for digital products in the world and it is also the easiest. Create an account first, or maybe you already have an account, then look for products under Marketplace. Don´t rush and choose carefully, you can even buy the product itself to learn more about. The more you know about the product you promote the better. Once you have chosen your product you have to create a specific hoplink for the product.

Create an Opt-In page

Create an Opt-In page that resembles the look and feel of the merchant’s pitch page. Don´t copy and paste the text from the merchant webpage to your Opt-In page, that is not ethical, it is quick and easy, but does not pay of in the long-term. You can collect your customers e-mails and names with an opt-in page before you point them to the Merchant website with your hoplink. Now you have a list of customers and you don´t have to start from scratch, when you market a 2nd affiliate product.

Use An Autoresponder

Your prospects are not very likely to buy the product from you right away, so you need to soften them up with a series of “sales-pitching” emails using an Autoresponder. Write about 5-7 good quality emails to convince your prospects to buy the product. Do not spam your list and you can also offer a free bonus to get their attention. People always want free stuff.

Drive traffic to the Opt-In page

The hardest task of all is to drive traffic to your site, all the other tasks are not that difficult at all really. You can write articles, create a blog, use forums. Or you can use paid methods like pay-per-click ads from Google and Yahoo. PPC is a very tricky way to drive traffic and you really have to know how it works. If you try to use it without an idea how it works, then you will lose money. So be careful.

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