What is the Best Way to Learn About Affiliate Marketing? Learn How to Work at Home Online The Right Way? Get Started Now; let’s make 2023 YOUR year of success.
In this article, the following will be covered:
A quick and short summary of what affiliate marketing is.
Affiliate Marketing is where you, as the Affiliate, promote a product or service on behalf of someone else.
When someone buys that product or service via you, a commission is received, and you just made some money.
That is a quick short description, yet there is more involved, which you can read in detail in another article I created for you about what affiliate marketing is later when you are ready.
Five Important Facts to Know about Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is not a get-rich instant money-making scheme.
- It is not quick and easy.
- You won’t be earning money overnight.
- Selling rather than helping.
- To be successful online proper training is necessary.
The Right Way Vs. The Wrong Way
Yes, there is a wrong way, which will only lead you to disappointment, loss of money, and a quick way to get you to quit.
These are vital and relevant facts to know, so I have only covered the five facts.
Rather than rehash all the reasons behind these facts, you can read this in more detail in another article called Why Affiliate Marketing is Not For You later.
Instead, let’s focus on the right way so you can learn how to earn online by working from home properly.
Questions for you to answer before you start further
Let’s begin with a question relating to why you want to learn affiliate marketing, which will be vital to you later.
What are your reasons for learning affiliate marketing?
- Are you wanting to earn money to supplement your current income or perhaps to secure a better retirement?
- Do you want to have financial freedom and do away with your 9-5 job,
- Perhaps you prefer working for yourself rather than for a boss and not being told what or when to do things.
- Are you wanting personal independence and be able to work your hours when and where you please?
- Tired of commuting with the daily traffic, losing time and money with all the fuel costs along the way?.
- Perhaps you want to have more time to spend with your family and loved ones.
These are the most common reasons many asked and very valid ones at that.
One more point to ask yourself regarding affiliate marketing:
How serious are you about achieving your wants, and are you prepared to put in the effort to reach your desired life goals?
So if you have answered your question honestly and want to continue to learn the right way and become successful in your own right, you are ready to progress to the next point.
Two Vital Factors to know before creating an online business.
Yes, we all want to make money, and this next statement is crucial to your future success.
1) Do Not Focus On Money
Do not focus on or overthink about making money.
It might seem strange to some when you want to earn money online, but this thinking is the wrong approach because money is the by-product of what you are doing online.
You need to add value to your readers to help them know what is available and allow your readers to make an informed decision.
You are not the salesperson but the helper to let your visitors know what options are available for their best needs, not what you want them to buy.
2) Learn how to build a solid foundation for your online website first
Your first aim is to learn how to build up your website first.
Think of it this way.
How will people find you looking with the search engines if you don’t have a website up and running?
They don’t know you exist, and neither do the search engines.
Wealthy Affiliate will show you how to get your website up and running by lesson four to be indexed and found on the web.
Setting your goals
Make a list of your goals and plans.
After reading, the reasons above, this would be an excellent time to take pen and paper, make your list or use the ones above if they relate to you.
So grab that pen and paper, and go for it.
Did you make your list? Great!
As this is very important to do, as you are letting yourself know what you want and expect in life, this is the time to start setting your goals in life.
If you need more time, go for it.
What is the Best Way to Learn Affiliate Marketing?
To be successful online, proper training is necessary, one that will teach you all the right steps to take so you can work at home online or anywhere you wish.
If you don’t have the proper training and guidance, you will fall short of many expectations.
That is why you will find the lessons taught in a particular order that needs to be created first along with certain tasks to ensure you are ahead of the game.
Those with some knowledge of internet marketing may seem obvious with some basic yet vital details.
However, many people have never created a website, let alone an online business.
Because of skipping and not following through, I have seen many go the opposite Way, and it was not the successful direction to go either.
Please know that getting the right training is vital for your success.
Ensure you follow and apply the training given.
Often I have seen some people try to take shortcuts in a training session or feel they know all there is, only to find out later it is not working the way they thought it would.
I know because I was one of those at the start who felt this part is not essential, thinking I don’t need it or understand this section so that I won’t bother with it.
A few months later, something wasn’t working right with my websites.
As technology changed with new updates, I later found out that I missed out big time.
I got to the point I had to admit defeat, swallow my pride, and re-did the lessons right from the beginning in the order given.
That is when I realized the order is there for a reason and not just put in here and there.
I found I missed so many vital parts of my success; if I did it right, then I would have become more successful earlier rather than later.
Sometimes mistakes have to be made first to learn and go forward.
You don’t need to make the same mistakes I did; that is why I am letting you know now.
I want you to succeed earlier rather than later.
The training given was created by two friends, Kyle Louden and Carson Lim.
Both wanted to give back and show what worked for them and what will work for you along your new journey online.
The training platform I am talking about is called Wealthy Affiliate.
Wealthy Affiliate started in 2005 over 17 years ago, a testimony to the success it has given to many.
There are over 2.3 million community members, all at different stages and levels of learning.
Many are earning over $10,000 per month or more.
Please note:
Earnings are not indicative for everyone; those making these amounts have put in the hard effort and did this the right way with what they learned and owe all their success to Wealthy Affiliate.
You can certainly achieve these goals, but it is through hard work, especially at the beginning.
As you continue to improve and apply all the training taught you can achieve the intended goals you set at the start of this article.
Breakdown of what Wealthy Affiliate has to offer you with their training.
The first is the main one, which is called the Online Entrepreneur Certification course.
It consists of 5 courses with 5 lessons on level one, 15 lessons on level 2, and ten lessons on levels 3,4, and 5 giving you 50 lessons.
The training covers all aspects essential to building a solid foundation for your online business with a wide range of topics, which I will show you below.
The first level you see above is available to all new starter members and consists of five lessons.
The other four levels are for those who wish to go Premium, which you can see further into being successful online with many different methods.
However, for now, I would prefer you to learn as a starter member, as I said earlier, first to see if this is for you.
This is your opportunity to see if affilaite marketing is for you and if so you have so much to gain with the many forms of training along with the core training mentioned here.
When you realize you are serious and want to go forward in life online you have the option which will be explained in lesson five level 1 on how to go about becoming a Premium member.
But that will be your choice to make, and no one will push you to do otherwise.
If you feel this is not for you, at least you have gained some knowledge for free in creating a website, and you can log out, and that is it.
Ok, so that you know, you have the choice of what you wish to do either give up or continue to learn to be successful online for whatever goals you set at the beginning.
Online Entrepreneur Course Level 1 to 5
Here is a short guideline with what is covered in the five levels of the Online Entrepreneur Course.
As you progress on each lesson, you have simple tasks to complete, when done, you check the box and are then able to proceed to the next lesson.
Level rundown:
Level one:
Here, you will see a rundown of how Wealthy Affiliate works to familiarize yourself with the platform and how to set up your account and create your usernames and profile. This is an introduction to Wealthy Affiliate along with
Level Two:
During this level, you will learn the crucial elements of your website and your role in affiliate marketing.
Lessons such as:
Getting your website ready for Search Engines like Google Bing, and Yahoo.
Create your basic page structure like your About Me, Privacy Policy, and Affiliate Disclosure along with other important pages for legal purposes.
Learn how to create custom menus that are critical for your website and one area that Search Engines like Google wants to see as navigation around your site is key.
Understanding the benefits and uses of keywords, such as low-hanging fruit and keyword research using Wealthy Affiliate’s own Jaaxy Keyword Research Tool that is already included within your premium or premium plus membership.
How to Publish your content to the search engines for people to find you online.
How to boost your ranking within Wealthy Affiliate in various ways of helping and being active within the community worldwide.
As you can see there is much to learn just from level 2 and you still have 3 more levels to go through.
Level Three:
In this lesson, you will learn more on the money side of things including understanding how affiliate networks and programs work.
How to add your affiliate links, the most important part before you create a website, how to choose your chosen Niche.
How to find and access millions of products to promote based upon your chosen Niche.
Understanding how to leverage Product reviews
Learn how to track your links and traffic.
How to create your Google Analytics, Google Search Console, along with Bing Webmaster Tools to understand deeper levels relating to your website.
Level Four:
Level 4 is all about social engagement.
Learning how and when to post correctly on various social media outlets such as FaceBook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram.
You will also learn how to use these social media sites properly.
Added benefits on being social within the Wealthy Affiliate platform such as creating blog posts within Wealthy Affiliate that can also rank on Search Engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
You will be shown other ways that you can earn within the community here at Wealthy Affiliate while helping your fellow members along the way.
As you can see there is a lot covered within this level but it doesn’t stop there.
Find out how you can also rank your blog content on Search Engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Creating blogs within the community that can also rank on the search engines to give you more visibility online.
There is an immense amount of support and help from your fellow members outside of the core training.
You have additional training and blog posts from fellow members showing how they were successful using certain media outlets.
You may not become a master of all but focusing on one or two social media sites will be of great benefit to you.
Level Five:
Now you have your chosen Niche and website, you will learn the vital components of setting up your website in areas such as Google Search Console.
Learn how to improve the readability of your content for maximum effect for your readers coming to your site this will also improve the likelihood of ranking higher on Google and other search engines.
The previous lesson on keywords and research comes to the fore here as you are shown how to Architecture your content for greater readability with headlines to captivate your audience interested in your niche.
Learn the best ways to create plans ahead of time for your content and keyword research.
Along with all the training sessions given to you will also be videos that will show you how to achieve your targets set in the training.
The training is not complicated and you don’t need technical knowledge or skills.
You are thoroughly guided along with that added support from fellow members should you have a question you want to clear up or clarify.
Affiliate Bootcamp
There is another course called Affiliate Bootcamp, of which Phase One is available to you as a starter member.
The Affiliate Bootcamp is focused primarily on promoting Wealthy Affiliate as a niche.
Here you can earn recurring commissions when you refer other visitors to Wealthy Affiliate but know this takes a lot of work and effort.
You will also find that phase one may overlap slightly with the other level one course with some more detailed information.
I won’t go into the course details apart from showing you what the lessons cover as I want you to focus first on the starter training I have shown above.
You first need to learn the basics before you get into more details on promoting more.
You will find that there is a lot to learn just from level one given to you, so no need to overload you with all the other courses available to you.
First, focus on this, and as I said, the rest is up to you.
So here is a snapshot of what the second course covers so that you know.
Important Note to consider
I am not one to hype people up in believing you will be rich overnight; as I said, I have been scammed in the past and lost lots of money in the process.
After I found Wealthy Affiliate, I found that Affiliate marketing takes hard work and effort and is a long-term commitment to being able to earn income online.
So you may not see income coming in the few months.
Typically most start to see earnings within the 5-6 month mark as there are lots to do as you can see, and you are creating content in the meantime, lots of it.
But that also depends on how hard you work; some do this as a part-time way to supplement their income, while others do this as their full-time business and are very successful.
I wanted to let you know this, so you don’t think hey! Why am I not making money now?
Be prepared:
This is a lifetime commitment you are making to establish a career being an internet marketer, and this is always a work in progress.
Here you are creating a solid foundation for your own online business for years to come.
You are your boss working from home or anywhere you wish.
You set your own hours and be able to give that freedom you are seeking.
Don’t fall for those make-money-quick-rich schemes, as you will end up losing money in the process.
So if you want to know the Best Way to Learn Affiliate Marketing and want it to be successful online, then this is your opportunity now.
Only you can make it happen.
Wealthy Affiliate is a training platform designed to teach you the right way to earn online from home.
The rest is up to you if you really and truly what to be successful.
Now you know the truth about Internet marketing; however, if you want to succeed in life, you need to make it work the right way to reap the rewards.
I would love to see you at Wealthy Affiliate when you decide to join.
You will receive a welcome from both the Co-Founders Kyle and Carson along with a personal welcome from me with some added bonuses should you go further.
I will be your mentor should you need any further advice, and you will also find a community of like-minded members who are always willing to help and support their fellow members.
We are all in this together regardless of what level we made, be it a beginner or advanced level.
You will always find support when you need it.
You now have an excellent opportunity to learn how to make money online from home and an opportunity to belearn what is needed to do so.
I look forward to seeing you on the other side of Wealthy Affiliate and know I will be by your corner all the way.
That is my promise to you.
So give it a go, and I will see you on the other side, and should you feel that going to the next level as Premium, there will be a bonus to give you as well.
Take action and get started now and begin the journey online you have always been meant to take.
Here are some added resources available for you.
The following video will show you the Four steps to creating a successful website online
Start to Premium and Beyond with Wealthy Affiliate
Affiliate Marketing for the Beginners
