How To Start Affiliate Marketing with Amazon!

If you're looking to start affiliate marketing and you are a complete beginner. 

  First step: of affiliate marketing is joining an affiliate network and this is where you find products you can sell or link to and make commissions from.

  Second step: if you wanna find a product. A specific product that you can sell on the internet that you resonate with and that you can make money with so that's going to be our second thing. 

  Third step What we're going to do, is we're going to actually go out there and sell it. Go through all these steps in this blog, and actually, you can start earning your first commissions right now. If you just take these steps. If we Google just affiliate networks, for instance, we'll find a bunch of results, we'll find a ton. And we'll see if we just look up the top 10 affiliate networks that aren't Amazon, we'll see a ton of affiliate networks, we see ClickBank, JVZoo, Giddy Up, ShareASale, Avangate, how do you decide what to join? Great affiliate networks to join our Amazon and the other is ClickBank. Amazon is very easy to join How to join Amazon's affiliate network? Scroll down to the bottom of the page. And what we see is in the footer it says, Make Money with Us.

Right there. And you'll see there's a lot of ways you can make money with Amazon. Selling, private label brands, business, et cetera, but what we're interested in is Become an Affiliate.

When we click on this we'll see, profit from our experience. Earn up to 10% advertising fees with a trusted e-commerce leader. Join now for free.

 Very easy to join and start selling stuff on Amazon. Join, Advertise, Earn, and basically, you'll just wanna join and one of the things it will ask you for is it will ask you to put it on a website. Now, do you have a Facebook profile? My guess is yes. Or if you don't, you can create a Facebook profile for free. That's your website, okay? Very easy. Also, you know, I've heard of some people just putting in random websites that have a lot of visitors in their niche and I guess Amazon doesn't check, but keep in mind, your YouTube channel, you can set up a YouTube channel for free. 

 Your Facebook profile is free and you can set these things up and use them as your website. Very easy. Amazon, you don't make a lot of money. For purposes of demonstration, say I'm selling book "Anathem" which is about a $20 book. If you earn 10% of that, what are you making? Two bucks. You're not gonna become a millionaire, selling, recommending books to people unless you're making more than 10%. There's a lot of affiliate networks, but ClickBank is the most trustworthy and the oldest affiliate network around.

It's been around for 21 years, it's based in Boise, Idaho and this is the network that I made my first commissions, many people have made their first commissions on and it's also been the affiliate network.  We click here, Affiliate Marketplace, right there, we'll see all of the products that you can sell on a commission-only basis.

Click the search icon, and see how many products we can find. You'll see there are over 4,500 products in the Marketplace. This gives you a lot of options of what do you wanna sell. What do you wanna sell to make a lot of money with? And you'll see they tell you how much money you'll make if somebody buys what you're selling as an affiliate. There's a lot of money to be made selling different products. Let's just get started with Amazon for the time being for demonstration purposes. 

  Go to amazon.com and once again, let's say I wanna start off advertising the book, "Anathem" and we're gonna search this on Amazon and look it up. So we'll see, okay, well, it's $9 right here. So, click on the book and what you'll see is when you're in, accepted for an affiliate network, you see this little bar? It says, Amazon Associates site stripe, right here. This is where I'll get my affiliate link. So what I'll do is I'll click Get Link Text.

And you'll see it says, Text Link created below. Now, this is our affiliate link which we will use to sell this book. This is the link people need to click on this link and buy the book and we make money. People click on this link, they buy the book and we make money. 

 The full link carries, basically, the link carries information that tells, the way affiliate marketing works is the link contains information that tells Amazon that's the person who clicked on our link versus they searched for it online or whatnot. We're just gonna grab the short link, copy it.

  Now, we have my link. We joined an affiliate network, we selected a product and we're going to move on to posting about how we can actually, you know, get in some people to come to our website. Now there are a few ways to get people to come to your link. You will already have access to them now, do you communicate with anybody digitally? You probably use text messages. That's a way you can get your link out to people. You use email, that's a way you can get your link out to people. You use Instagram, that's a way you can get your link out to people. 

 Do you ever post comments on YouTube? That's a way you can get your link out to people. Facebook, that's a way you can get your link out to people. All of these methods are ways you can get your link out to people. Now, most of the time you're probably having very like, just you know, you're talking about a random, social male, female, social dynamics in your life.

  We're talking about making money here so that's what we'll need to be talking to people about in our emails. Now, let's say I'm recommending this book. The first place I could start is through email. I want people to click on my link. I could send an email to a couple of my close friends, let's say, you know, or just people I know. I could type in my friends and I could write something like a book recommendation. I could say, you know, I remember you asked me for a sci-fi book recommendation and I'm reading a really good one right now. I absolutely love it. Check it out.

  And I put my link there, I wrote a little short personal email in the way, I normally communicate and then I just put my initials. So that's a way to get your link out to people. You could send an email to people that, whose emails you have and in this case I'm sending an email to my friend. Who I know is interested in science fiction books. That would be a good way to start affiliate marketing. Another way to start affiliate marketing is I could go to my Facebook and I have, a lot of the people I'm friends with on Facebook are, you know, like the future and science fiction and all this stuff. I'm not going on my Facebook page. I'm going on my personal Facebook because I wanna communicate with people personally.

Do you buy things from ads? Probably not. Do you ever buy things or see movies or listen to music based on other friends of your personal recommendations? 

 My guess is yeah. 

Again, if we want people to buy from our link, it needs to be somewhat of a personal recommendation. That's why I'm posting on my personal profile. 

Now, if you don't wanna sell anything, that's cool, okay? But again, the other methods of getting your link out there are expensive, they cost money. So we're doing this for free.

If you look, if you're writing something that looks like an ad, nobody is gonna buy, ever. Ever!

 Nobody wants to buy from ads. 

 Nobody wants to get raped and that's what buying from an ad feels like, it feels like your wallet is being raped. 

 You wanna have, you wanna feel like you're in love and a personal recommendation feels like you're in love. 

 That is how to start affiliate marketing in a nutshell.