Affiliates - A Case Study Example
 

What is affiliate marketing?

 

If you've ever asked yourself this question than this example is exactly for you.

 

To illustrate how easy it is to make money online (IF you know what you are doing),

we would like to share with you the following scenario:

 

An affiliate decides to open a Children’s online toy store.

Requirements:

Shipment capabilities:

Payment processing:

Inventory handling:

Customer service support:

Marketing capabilities:

NO

NO

NO

NO

YES

 

 

 

Check out how simple it is for him to get it up and running:

 

Step 1: Building a website.

There are many site-builders to choose from. These are pre-made shopping websites that are easily managed. Prices can be as low as $30 a month.

 

 

 
     
 
As we will teach you, there are many ways to promote others' products without even having to have a website!  You can earn commissions by referring customers in many different ways. This is just one example.
  
     

 

 

Step 2: Finding toys!

There are special sites that act as intermediaries between those who are providing the actual product or service to those who are helping them promoting it.

 

After taking our course titled "Finding Great Products" the affiliate visits CJ (or any other affiliate network) to locate the relevant products.

 

 

 
     
 
Such sites are intermediaries between the companies/websites that actually hold the product and those (affiliates) who are looking for products to promote.
 
     

 
This is just a partial list of the categories one may choose from:

 

This means that anyone can easily find a list of thousands of toys (or any other product/service) to choose from!

 

 

Step 3: Uploading the toys into her/his site

After picking the toys that he finds interesting, the affiliate uses a simple copy-paste operation to copy the products onto his site. By now, the affiliate has a website up and running with many toys in it!

 

 

 
     
 
There is no need to worry about technical issues. With our step by step tutorials that we show you, you will find it all very easy to implement without any technical knowledge whatsoever.
 
     

 

 

Step 4: Marketing. Marketing. Marketing.

Using the different marketing methods that we teach, our affiliate learns how to drive significant amount of traffic to his new "toys-for-kids" website.

 

 

Step 5: The purchase phase

The trick with being an affiliate is that you don’t need to do anything other than getting the traffic (buyers). When a customer reaches the affiliate's site and click on a particular toy that they like, they are automatically transferred to the real product provider's website. From this point on, the payment, customer support and shipment processes are handled solely by the merchant!

 

 

 
     
 
You don't have to do anything other than transferring customers to other websites.
They will pay you and take care of the rest!
  
     

 

 

Step 6: Getting paid

For each sale that you account for you get paid a commission, Sometimes up to 90% of the product's price!

 

This illustration shows how affiliate marketing works:

Step 1: Customer visits an affiliate's website

Step 2: Affiliate directs customer to partner
Step 3: Brand/Seller compensates the affiliate

 

 
In conclusion,

  1. You can use a pre-made $30/Month website.
  2. You "sell" - lots of products, without keeping any inventory.
  3. You drive traffic to your site.
  4. Interested customers are referred to the merchant that holds the product they are interested in.
  5. You earn high commissions.

 

 

 
     
 
The beauty with this system is that you can add or remove new products as much as you'd like. Some may be a waste of your site's space, while others may be a bonanza. And it all costs you nothing!
  
     

 
     
 
We will teach you even simpler methods to earn commissions by promoting others' products and/or services. Most of these methods don’t even require any technical knowledge or having your own website.