How to get started with Affiliate Marketing

1. Decide on a platform
2. Choose your niche
3. Find affiliate programs to join
4. Create great content
5. Drive traffic to your affiliate site
6. Get clicks on your affiliate links
7. Convert clicks to sales

Sample products and brands to work with in the

following affiliate marketplaces:

• Commission Junction (CJ) Affiliate

• ClickBank
• FlexOffers
• ShareASale
• Awin
• Amazon Associates affiliate program

CJ Affiliate Program

Commission Junction (CJ) Affiliate

Affiliate marketing is a performance-driven channel that enables a rich

ecosystem of partnerships to reach, influence, and convert shoppers worldwide
at every part of their purchase journey, both online and offline. CJ is the place
where partnerships and technology converge to create valuable shopping
experiences that result in scalable, profitable growth.
How it works:

Join
Once live on our platform, we connect advertisers and publishers in our network.
Collaborate
Advertisers and publishers determine offer details and promotional method(s).
Promote
Publishers market advertisers’ products and services.
Reward
Publishers drive desired outcome (sale, lead, etc.) and are compensated by
advertisers.
Grow

CJ Affiliate help advertisers and publishers optimize for growth.

Amazon Associates - Amazon’s affiliate marketing program

Amazon Associates affiliate program

Amazon Associates is one of the largest affiliate marketing programs in the

world. The Amazon Associates Program helps content creators, publishers and
bloggers monetize their traffic. With millions of products and programs available
on Amazon, associates use easy link-building tools to direct their audience to
their recommendations, and earn from qualifying purchases and programs.

• How does the Associates Program work?

You can share products and available programs on Amazon with your
audience through customized linking tools and earn money on qualifying
purchases and customer actions like signing up for a free trial program.
• How do I qualify for this program?
Bloggers, publishers and content creators with a qualifying website or
mobile app can participate in this program.
If you're an influencer with an established social media following, l
• How do I earn in this program?
You earn from qualifying purchases and programs through the traffic you
drive to Amazon. Commission income for qualifying purchases and
programs differ based on product category.
• How do I sign up to the program?
Sign up to the program here.

Affiliate Marketing with a WIX Website (Amazon Associates)

 ClickBank Affiliate Program

ClickBank

What is Affliate Marketing?

As an affiliate, you can make money without creating your own products to sell.
But how do you find quality products worth promoting? At ClickBank, we make
affiliate marketing easy. Our vast marketplace features more than 4,000 quality
products listed by thousands of sellers.

ClickBank’s signup process for new affiliates is very straightforward. Simply enter
your location, name, telephone number, and email address.

ClickBank sells both digital products and some physical ones too.

But the thing is these are all brand names you probably won’t recognize. If you’re
exclusively looking to work with a high-profile online retailer, ClickBank probably
ain’t the one. You might have seen some of them in your social media feed or in
pop-ups via retargeting campaigns, but that’s it.

The ClickBank Marketplace is where all the action happens. ClickBank has made
the process of creating affiliate links stupendously simple.

The vast majority of affiliate networks operate on a net 30 payment schedule.

ClickBank, on the other hand, offers weekly or bi-weekly payments. You need to
earn the tiny amount of $10 in commissions to trigger a ClickBank payment.

Flex Offers Affiliate Program

FlexOffers

To have your company become part of our affiliate program directory, become a
direct advertiser with FlexOffers.com, you can learn more here.

If you are working with a network or agency and you’d like to be listed on our
affiliate program directory, you can find more info here.

FlexOffers do seem to review and approve even relatively new sites with very
little content. Or at least they did for the new-ish affiliate site I used.
Their support FAQs also explain how to verify your free Wix, WordPress or
Blogger site – that’s pretty unusual these days.

So the FlexOffers registration process is a little bit longwinded, but it’s bearable.

One final note here is that you can also earn a commission for referring other
affiliates to the FlexOffers network through their FlexRev-$hare program.

People who sign up “under” you become sub-affiliates so you earn a cut of ever
referred sale they make.

As a FlexOffers affiliate, you’ll get paid Net 60. FlexOffers does offer ‘Advanced
Payments’ for certain affiliates, which will arrive a lot sooner than the Net 60
date, but you do have to pay a small network fee (apparently around 6%) of your
due earnings.

Share A Sale Affiliate Marketing

ShareASale

Monetize your content with our trusted network

Get your affiliate marketing strategy off the ground with ShareASale. The easy-
to-use platform allows all types of content creators to monetize their website or
platform by partnering with their favorite brands.
Whether you are a traditional affiliate, blogger, vlogger, podcaster, influencer, or
website owner looking to tap into new sources of revenue, ShareASale is your
solution. We help publishers like you find relevant retailer partners to promote,
track which transactions earn commissions, provide easy-to-interpret reporting,
and most importantly, pay out your earnings on time each month.

Awin Global Affiliate Marketing Program

Awin

Free but need to make $5 security deposit.

The signup process involves 4 steps. However, they are very detailed. This
lets Awin get a clear understanding of your business. This is beneficial if you’re
new to affiliate programs.
Payments are easy as they’re done by major E-wallets like PayPal. Once a
transaction is made, the advertiser can decide if they want to accept or deny it. If
they accept it, it’s marked as ‘Uncleared’ until the advertiser pays Awin affiliate.
Then, it changes to ‘Cleared’. Awin will accept the payment after reviewing the
payment frequency and minimum threshold amount.
To help you choose who to work with, Awin has a Traffic Light System. This lets
you know if you should work with someone by showcasing the risk of doing so.
This is by showing a green, orange or red light as their status. If you’re new
to Awin, this is very useful.

If the advertiser has a green light, commissions will be paid to publishers when
their payment is due.

If the advertiser has an orange or amber light, commissions will be paid when
payment for corresponding invoices have been received by Awin. There are
different levels to the amber tier, so keep this in mind.

If the advertiser has a red light, stay away from them. Publishers will get their
commissions only when corresponding invoices and outstanding payments have
been received by Awin. As you can imagine, Awin review suggests that
publishers don’t work with individuals who have a red light as their status.

Being an affiliate is easier than ever with Awin affiliate network. With it by your
side, you’ll get hold of their trusty convert-a-link plugin. It lets you convert any link
on your website into an affiliate link.

This lets you make money even if you’re not a part of its programs as you’d be
linked to a product on Awin. (If you get approved to do so).

Their Convert-A-Link plug-in is arguably their best tool. However, it isn’t the only
one. The marketplace has a ‘create-a-feed’ tool that provides you with data on
various advertisers, and what they are offering.