Joining an affiliate program is easy; you can do it in less than 2 minutes. However, making your first sale by promoting your niche affiliate marketing links is the tough thing. Not to say tough, it is because most people are lazy, they want to see instant traffic and instant sales, and that is what makes most of us procrastinate in taking actions.
In order to make money with affiliate marketing, you need to promote your niche affiliate marketing links. In other words, drive traffic to your affiliate websites. Traffic generation is easy in fact; all you need to do is to take action. If you take action, traffic will come, and it has to come. Now, I’m going to tell you exactly how you can drive traffic, the 8 ways how you can promote your niche affiliate marketing links.
1. Bum marketing, to make it easy, bum marketing is writing articles regarding your niche market and submits them to article directories. This marketing strategy has been proven over and over again. It works. This is a great strategy for both building your niche affiliate marketing links and driving traffic.
2. Blogging and pinging, has become more and more popular. The concept is easy, just blog about your niche market and insert your affiliate links within the posts. You can also earn extra income from blogging, like using Google AdSense.
3. Email marketing, if you are a serious person who wants to make big money online, you need to get involve in email marketing. You have to build a list of subscribers, so that you can send them emails to promote your niche affiliate marketing links. Every guru have their own list, you should have your own as well.
4. Social networking sites, it is also a proven strategy which you can use to drive traffic to your affiliate links. Some of the popular social sites like Digg and StumbleUpon have become so hot because of the traffic they drive. Forum is also another great social site where you can attract traffic from.
5. Video marketing, YouTube is the leader of video marketing. There are tons of videos being watched and uploaded to YouTube every single day. You don’t have to be Steven Spielberg to do it; you can even use your hand phone to make videos. Just be creative and insert your affiliate links into every of your videos will do.
6. Viral marketing, the best leveraging strategy that you can use to promote your niche affiliate marketing links. Viral marketing works because of people. Create a product like an e-book, and give it away for people. If the content is great, people will share among their friends, and this is how your affiliate links spinning around.
7. PPC marketing, costly, but fast and very targeted. The leader for PPC marketing is Google AdWords. You can drive massive targeted traffic if you know what you are doing. If you don’t it is going to cost you a lot of money. So learn it before you get into it.
These are the 7 strategies you can use to promote your niche affiliate marketing links. I believe that there are still more ways you can do so, however, you have to make sure that you are just concentrating in one.
