What Online Business Can I Start: Affiliates Marketing
This guide will show you how you can start an affiliate’s business online if you ever been engrossed as to what Online business you can start on the internet. Or perhaps you wish to start but don’t have the money to start? If this is a pointer to you as a beginner, please read on as I will show you how this can be done for free. To be upfront with you, online business success requires you to put in the effort to achieve results.
Among Online Businesses a beginner can start running with are affiliate marketing, freelancing, problem-solving, writing, video creation, cryptocurrency buying and selling, and so on…the list kept growing as technology is evolving
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is simply taking products from other people who will in turn give you a link to use in marketing to others to buy. Whenever anyone click on your link to buy the product, you get a commission paid.
Some affiliates’ products require you to get approval before you market such product while some do not require approval e.g. Getresponse, Bluehost, Clickbank, etc.
How to sign up to Bluehost Affiliate: Step-by-Step
Step 1:
1. Go to www. medium.com
2. Sign up and login successful
3. Click your profile and then settings to obtain your url
4. Grab your medium URL. The URL is required in the Bluehost affiliate registration. Mine for an instant is https://medium.com/@agbanzo as highlighted.
Step 2:
1. Go to bluehost.com
2. Click on Affiliates
3. Click on Sign up
4. Fill in the information using the URL obtained in medium.com as highlighted
5. Click on signup
6. Click on the Links to obtain your Affiliate link
7. Grab your link and start promoting
How to Promote Bluehost through the Affiliate Link
Congratulations if you have come this far! Our affiliate link is ready for business. The promotion of Bluehost can then start by going to medium.com to write content on Bluehost. Anyone that clicks on your link to buy will earn you a $65 commission. Aside from medium.com where the content is created, you can post your content about on:
- Blogger.com
- Tumblr.com
As a side note, we need to shorten the affiliate’s link using the free online services line bitly.com. Using this service helps convert the Bluehost URL to Bitly url (shorter link). It is a good practice to always shorten the affiliate URL. Most URL shortener websites help you to keep track of each click on your affiliate link.
Embedding Your Link in your Content
When you write your content to promote Bluehost, all you need to know is to embed the link in your content. For instant, the small snippet typed below in italics has the Bluehost linked to the https://bit.ly/3A7hDUV — a click on that will take the visitor to the Bluehost sales page who when eventually buys the product, you get a commission.
Bluehost is by far the cheapest hosting service for beginners. It is a good place for beginners to grab their hosting. With up to 99.97 uptime and cheaper cost, Bluehost is the best deal for website hosting
Driving Traffic to Your Content
It’s great you are still following up to this stage. Having come this far deserves a pat on the back. However, writing good content is not enough, the content needs to get as much traffic as possible to bring visitors to the blog who will be our potential buyer of the product we are selling. Traffic to a website could be free or paid. Our focus here is on the free ways of driving traffic to our blog. We are going to be focusing on Question and Answers (QA) websites to drive our traffic. Below is what is required: The QA websites have millions of traffic and this can help provide a backlink to your blog.
- Sign up to popular QA websites: Answers.com, Quora.com
- Search the niche of your content (webhosting)
- Answer question related to your content
- Link back to your content sites
- Never provide your affiliates link on QA websites else you will be BANNED!
Driving traffic is a major factor that determines how successful your campaigne will be. Aside blogging, one can also consider looking at creating YouTube Videos leaving our affiliates links in the description
Conclusion
Looking for an affiliates program like Bluehost that requires no approval is the best shot for beginners who especially are very low budget or without money to start doing business online. Taking advantage of the likes of blogging sites like medium.com, tumblr.com and blogger.com is a safe passage for anyone with almost zero skills to start online.
The digital age has opened the doors to how businesses can be done online successfully by virtually anyone. However, the will to take the bold steps lies with you!
If you don’t build your own dreams someone will hire you to build theirs
Tony Gaskins
Take a cue from this quote and start acting on how to change your life!
Are you willing to take the bold step? Please share your thoughts.
