Even with Affiliate marketing being legit, Is it worth your time and the investments?
How do you avoid scammers within the Affiliate marketing industry?
Many well-known organizations that own web pages make huge bags by promoting other companies' products and getting paid in commission when their website visitor buys the product using their special affiliate link or code.
Yes, PROMOTING OTHER COMPANIES PRODUCTS IS WHAT AFFILIATE MARKETERS DO AND IT IS LEGIT PROVIDED IS WITH THE LEGAL PERMISSION OF THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THE PRODUCT YOU ARE PROMOTING.
And if you as an individual, want to also tap from the glory of this business model it may require you to be patient, have money to invest, and get ready to actually commit to the work.
But that is where the problem is. Many people are looking for how to make money online quickly without having to put in any effort, and those people are the ones who end up getting scammed by fake online gurus who promise them unrealistic returns within a very short period of time.
These gurus are well-informed. They know you are looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, and that is why they have decided to play with your mind and snatch your hard-earned money from you, using the things you most desire.
Their luxurious life that is allegedly sponsored by the same business model they are promising to teach you after you most of have paid them a huge sum of money.
And instead of them actually giving you a clue of what you are going to get yourself into, they pull you in with a huge amount of money as evidence that it works for them, and of course who doesn't like FREE money?
And that is when you finally give up to your dark wants and pay for their AFFILIATE MARKETING COURSE so that you can start making the same amount of money as them in no time.
Affiliate marketing is not as easy as these fake online gurus make it seem. It is not as simple, especially if you are promoting products that are worth the hard-earned money of the people paying for them.
These days a lot of these online gurus come up with very low-quality videos or E-books, package them in a folder, and sell them to you in the name of they are teaching you HOW TO BECOME AN AFFILIATE MARKETER, wasting your hard-earned income and time on something they scraped from YouTube and sure haven’t even had real-life experience themselves.
The crazy thing is that, even with all the information going around about fake online gurus, many are still going to fall for this Affiliate marketing scam. Why? Because of their endless pursuit of something quick, easy, and lucrative.
Now as someone who was once in pursuit of the easiest way of making money online, I can tell you that those three words; quick, easy, and lucrative - shouldn’t be in the same line of sentence because the concept of their unity is utterly impossible especially if you want to make millions online using a digital skill.
HOW TO SPOT A FAKE ONLINE GURU AND AVOID GETTING SCAMMED BY THEM
Some of the things I mentioned earlier may have already given you a clue about the colored coats these fake online gurus put on to attract you and your money.
Let’s dive into them:
They make unrealistic promises: They all have this same mantra of “you will make your investments back within two weeks” or maybe even one week. Regardless of the number of weeks you are given to make back the money you have invested, if it is within 30 days or shorter, Find your footwear and RUN!
Because in actual sense, if it were that easy then everyone is meant to be doing it and making those bags.
They don't have money back guarantee Policy: If you find yourself on any of these sales pages with all the proof and evidence that their AFFILIATE MARKETING COURSE is doing wonders for people, and you scroll to the bottom of the sales page and you can't find that stamp with the money back guarantees on it. Close your eyes and exit the page ASAP so that you won’t be tempted by all the alluring figures they have put on there to drain you of your money.
They show off unnecessarily: Unlike real gurus who are there to teach you how to become an Affiliate marketer and share strategies that they gained from their own experience in the industry, the fake gurus won’t tell you anything valuable relating to affiliate marketing rather they will show you the results of other people and claim that it is their own. They will show you a large amount of money, the cars that they have, and the houses that they purchased following the same business model just so they can bewitch you into thinking you can see the same results.
These people don’t make their money through affiliate marketing, they make it through selling those depressing courses that make you less smart than you already are.
Even if you were to ask them “WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING ALL ABOUT?” they would stutter.
The overall precaution you should take to avoid getting scammed is to find a (one) digital skill that you love and don’t mind legitimately investing in learning, practicing, and mastering it. Don’t get distracted and jump from one online money-making trend to another, just focus on one and master it.
HOW TO BECOME AN AFFILIATE MARKETER
Depending on your start-up resource(money), the kind of affiliate marketing you can comfortably indulge in may differ. let's say for an industry with millions of dollars in revenue and they want to expand their income stream through affiliate marketing.
They can start by first of all:
Blogging (Content Marketing): Now content marketing depending on the area of comparison is way different from Affiliate marketing. But if a company hires a blogger who writes content for them on their website and in that content that he or she has written, you can see little signs of reference to another company and an action link Leading you to click on it to find out more about their product.
Then at that point, you should know that the content writer has written content in which he has promoted links leading to another website or product, in case it will be of your interest to click the promoted link and take whatever action is required of you. And from my last definition, that is clearly affiliate marketing but with content writing.
The only problem with this method of affiliate marketing is that you would have to create your website, buy your personal domain name, pay for hosting, and Learn about SEO to increase the chances of driving traffic to your website. I don't need to tell you; it is not cheap.
Email Marketing: This is another method through which the purpose of affiliate marketing can be fulfilled. For an individual or an organization that have built their email list, they can send out email campaigns to their email lists while promoting the product they want you to buy in that email, But Email marketing is a whole broad topic on its own and it requires a good number of investments to get it right but is all worth when mastered.
Apart from all these huge investments required methods of doing Affiliate marketing
HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM AFFILIATE MARKETING AS A BROKE STUDENT OR PERSON WITH LITTLE TO NO INVESTMENTS (IT IS NOT GOING TO BE QUICK AND EASY).
There are loads of free affiliate marketing programs especially in Ghana that you can join and make money from. You just go online and search for “Affiliate marketing programs in Ghana” or anywhere else you are in the world, and you will find them. It is that simple
But the not-so-simple part is finding the people who are interested in investing in what you are promoting.
Let's dive into how to generate free leads as a broke affiliate marketer:
Start a YouTube channel: This has been one of the most underrated ways of generating leads as a marketer in general and it is FREE. For every affiliate program you choose, talk about it on your YouTube channel, probably in a HOW-TO tutorial video, and then lead your audience to your description where you must have dropped your affiliate link for them to click on.
Create high-quality content: Create high-quality content with value and much reference with the product you are promoting. Let them know why they need it and its importance before you can think of selling it to them.
Choose an affiliate program from a reputable website: Don’t just choose an affiliate program because they promised huge commissions. As you won't want to be scammed of your money so would another person, so choose an affiliate program that you know is worth the money being spent on it.
If you insist on applying and promoting fraudulent affiliate programs with no value, then it will cause your audience to lose trust in you and your recommendations, reducing your chances of turning them into returning customers.
Post regularly on social mediums like TikTok and X(Twitter): In addition to the leads you have generated on YouTube, you can also post about the product that you are promoting on other social media platforms regularly to build trust with your audience.
Do research on what people need: This is meant to be the first step. Doing research has become one of the easiest tasks because all you are required to do is just go to Google, and search for something and you will be left with an endless stream of results according to what you searched for. After you have done your research and you know what people are complaining about and need a solution to, as an affiliate marketer you find a solution to their problem, and you sell it to them.
As I said in the beginning, it is not going to be too easy. It is going to take determination and commitment to start making as much as you dream from affiliate marketing but instead of pushing yourself based on other's results, enjoy the process, do more research, and learn as much as possible, that is why focusing on one thing is important.
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