For many years, affiliate marketers have been slogging their guts out creating content, building huge authority sites, portals and virtual communities in order to attract enough traffic to make affiliate commissions.
Also, until recently, anyone new to the world of affiliate marketing has been led to believe that this laborious path to making a few sales as an affiliate is the same one they must tread in order to break free from the day job and become a super affiliate for themselves.
But thankfully, that's all changing as we speak.
No longer do we have to slave away at creating large amounts of content or persuade other webmasters to link to our newbie sites.
Due to the widening nature of the internet, plus the simplicity of affiliate marketing, there are ample ways to rake in a ton of cash purely in affiliate sales without half the work of years gone by.
How is this done you might ask? Well, here are 4 ways you can get started within the next 5 minutes...
1. Forum posting
Forums are as old as the internet itself, yet placing your affiliate links in forums is still as effective as it always was. Providing you add some sort of genuine help or advice to others and appear authoritative on the same subject that your affiliate offer is related to, you'll soon be able to drive traffic straight to your affiliate links without the need for a website.
2. Blog/Video Posting
The principle of blog and video posting is the same as forum posting. Leave a useful comment on someone's blog or Youtube video, with your affiliate link and expect to see some traffic flowing. The more traffic already flowing to that particular video or blog, the more chances of a sale.
3. PPC Direct Linking
Sure, it costs a little money to use PPC, but you can effectively write an ad, send the visitor directly to your affiliate link and never need to create masses of content or buy your own domain name. If someone else beat you to it on Google's Adwords PPC engine, then don't forget that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of other smaller PPC engines from competing search engine companies.
4. Group posting
This may require a little content, but still doesnt need to be your own. If you decide to write some useful content (such as a brief 2 paragraphs about how to do something) then you can post to popular online groups such as Google Groups, with your affiliate link included, and expect to see a steady flow of traffic directly to your affiliate link. If you don't want to write a word, there are plenty of article directories where you can republish other people's articles legally...just remember to include your affiliate link somewhere on the post you make in the group.
These are just a handful of proven ways to start getting paid passively every month as an affiliate, for no more than 30 minutes "work" in most cases.
However, the problem with promoting affiliate products is that it will always take a lot longer and a lot more people sent through to the offer before you make a sale.
This is because the price is always something people cannot always justify or even afford at the time.
There is a sneaky way around this, which very few people in the online marketing world ever talk about. It's about promoting different types of affiliate offers that convert at a much higher rate, because they do not require you, as the affiliate, to actually sell anything at all!
What makes this new system even better is the facts that just like the methods above, you don't need a website or existing traffic.
If you'd like to know what the 1% of lazy affiliate marketers know, then check out the resource below where this new type of affiliate marketing is exposed from the inside.
Also, until recently, anyone new to the world of affiliate marketing has been led to believe that this laborious path to making a few sales as an affiliate is the same one they must tread in order to break free from the day job and become a super affiliate for themselves.
But thankfully, that's all changing as we speak.
No longer do we have to slave away at creating large amounts of content or persuade other webmasters to link to our newbie sites.
Due to the widening nature of the internet, plus the simplicity of affiliate marketing, there are ample ways to rake in a ton of cash purely in affiliate sales without half the work of years gone by.
How is this done you might ask? Well, here are 4 ways you can get started within the next 5 minutes...
1. Forum posting
Forums are as old as the internet itself, yet placing your affiliate links in forums is still as effective as it always was. Providing you add some sort of genuine help or advice to others and appear authoritative on the same subject that your affiliate offer is related to, you'll soon be able to drive traffic straight to your affiliate links without the need for a website.
2. Blog/Video Posting
The principle of blog and video posting is the same as forum posting. Leave a useful comment on someone's blog or Youtube video, with your affiliate link and expect to see some traffic flowing. The more traffic already flowing to that particular video or blog, the more chances of a sale.
3. PPC Direct Linking
Sure, it costs a little money to use PPC, but you can effectively write an ad, send the visitor directly to your affiliate link and never need to create masses of content or buy your own domain name. If someone else beat you to it on Google's Adwords PPC engine, then don't forget that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of other smaller PPC engines from competing search engine companies.
4. Group posting
This may require a little content, but still doesnt need to be your own. If you decide to write some useful content (such as a brief 2 paragraphs about how to do something) then you can post to popular online groups such as Google Groups, with your affiliate link included, and expect to see a steady flow of traffic directly to your affiliate link. If you don't want to write a word, there are plenty of article directories where you can republish other people's articles legally...just remember to include your affiliate link somewhere on the post you make in the group.
These are just a handful of proven ways to start getting paid passively every month as an affiliate, for no more than 30 minutes "work" in most cases.
However, the problem with promoting affiliate products is that it will always take a lot longer and a lot more people sent through to the offer before you make a sale.
This is because the price is always something people cannot always justify or even afford at the time.
There is a sneaky way around this, which very few people in the online marketing world ever talk about. It's about promoting different types of affiliate offers that convert at a much higher rate, because they do not require you, as the affiliate, to actually sell anything at all!
What makes this new system even better is the facts that just like the methods above, you don't need a website or existing traffic.
If you'd like to know what the 1% of lazy affiliate marketers know, then check out the resource below where this new type of affiliate marketing is exposed from the inside.