The novel coronavirus is keeping all of us at home. Much of the world is on lockdown, and, even in places that aren’t, people are encouraged to stay indoors. Where it’s possible, employers are encouraging or requiring people to work from home for an indeterminate amount of time. And since all of our time is at home, there has never been more perfect timing to start an affiliate marketing business right from your bedroom.

I believe if you are following up with us on our Youtube channel or reading our blog posts, then you already know what affiliate marketing is.

But let me explain if briefly what affiliate marketing means in case this is your first time here.

What is Affiliate Marketing

To learn how to start your affiliate marketing business, you need to know what affiliate marketing is in the first place.

The fastest way to make money anywhere, is by earning a commission on sales.

In affiliate marketing, you will be referring someone else’s business, product, or any service they provide. Once any customer buys their products through your shared links, you will earn a commission. That simple.

This is the easiest way to make money online. And if you are a beginner and want to learn more about affiliate marketing programs, check out our affiliate marketing ultimate guide.

But in order to start your affiliate program, make sure you always have a blog running and you are always providing good content for your readers.

You can check how to make your own blog here. And if you need help in typing correct English on your blog like this post, check out Grammarly.

Now that we explained some concepts about affiliate marketing, let’s dig in.

How and where to start an affiliate marketing business?

To start, you have to go through 3 simple steps.

Step 1: Choosing Product

This depends on your niche. Whatever your niche is, you can always find affiliate products that you can share and earn money for.

Step 2: Create Content about Product

Create valuable content about your product. Whether it is a review, tutorial, or even sharing some advanced features with the readers. Content is the key.

Step 3: Drive Traffic to your content

Try to get traffic to your content. In case you are writing a blog, improve your SEO. You can learn many ways to drive traffic to your content by following this simple tutorial.

Let’s now dig into how you can share your affiliate links and start your affiliate marketing business in no time.

Sharing Links in your Content

As mentioned earlier, content is key. And one way to provide your audience with content is by writing articles about the product you want to share, or making videos about them.

Blog Posts

Let me show you a live example.

When you open our blog, you can see this banner. In our case, we are promoting our own website, which is H-supertools, which is a free digital marketing and SEO tools website. But you can add your own banner and share your affiliate links directly through the banners instead of just using ad sense.

Another way of sharing links is by directly sharing them in your articles.

How?

Let’s check this article that talks about how to build an SMTP server and send unlimited emails.

Notice that we are providing a free tutorial on how to build your own mailing server. This is what we talked about as valuable content.

If you check in the article, scroll down to creating a VPS server. You can find a link that provides you a 100$ dollars to test Digital Ocean.

This is an affiliate link, you get 100$ to test, and we get a commission for referring you to Digital Ocean. So it is a win-win situation. Always make sure your target is not only getting the money, the ultimate target is to get a big base of readers and followers that can turn into possible customers later on.

What is very important about this way of sharing links is that it is totally passive.
Whenever someone enters to read your blog, they are very likely to press on your links. You just have to drive traffic to your blog using the below methods.