Effective Blogging – Q & A Session with New Affiliate Bloggers eBook

Share

I recently had a 2 hour session in New York City with a small group of new bloggers who are aspiring to be affiliate marketers & online small business owners. In this post on Effective Blogging Series I will write on some if the interesting question & answers that came up from this session.

The focus of this discussion had been on Making Money by Blogging Effectively (that is what ProMediaBlog is all about) & how to become an Effective Affiliate Marketer.

The Complete Q & A Session is available for download to our subscribers only.

Q1: What is the best time to get started with Affiliate Blogging & Affiliate Marketing?

When you are new to blogging, everything seems exciting & all these websites make you feel that you can make tons of money the moment you set up a website or a blog. I wish that was true!

It usually takes smart people anything from 6 months to a year to understand the basics of blogging, what you can use & what the effective channels of marketing are. I would suggest that if you have just started blogging, give it about a year before you go full time into affiliate marketing.

Q2: So what all do a New Blogger have to learn before they go into Affiliate Blogging & Affiliate Marketing?

If you look at the entire process of effective affiliate marketing, you will see that there are a few areas that you need to focus on. Essentially, if you master these areas, you will tremendously increase your chances of making huge money online.

Affiliate Blogging or Affiliate Marketing is more marketing than blogging. So you have to quickly learn how the money flows from buyer to the seller to you. An affiliate is much like a middleman – who does all the marketing, drives visitors to the affiliate pages & then hope that there are conversions (someone buys the product).

Being known in the right circles of customers as well as marketers is important. And one way to do that is to become an authority in your niche. So when you begin, try to learn as much about the niche as possible.

• What is the niche about?
• What is the potential of the niche?
• What are the customer’s expectations in this niche?
• Where all are the customers in this niche?
• How do the customers behave before & after buying a product etc?

Q3: Would you recommend any Training Program for Affiliate Blogging & Affiliate Marketing?

Yes, certainly. The most reputed is Yaro’s Mastermind Program. Click Here to Read About the Mastermind Training Program.

This is an expensive training program but an essential one if you are seriously thinking about making money online or setting up your own Online Blogging Business. Apart from the course itself, this training will offer the opportunity for new bloggers to meet & talk to a lot of experienced affiliate marketers & get to learn from their experience.

Q4: What Affiliate Programs do you Recommend for New Affiliates & New Bloggers?

There are a few ways to answer this question. So let me broadly classify this into 2 methods of making money online so that you can decide for yourself which is best for you.

Method 1: You can simply create a strong website or blog & earn sufficient money from advertising or promoting products by reviewing them on your sites. You can also make money by referring other people to sign up with these advertisers or promoters.

Click Here to Find All Ways to Make Money Online.

In this method, you focus on creating a strong content that drives readers either through organic searches or from advertisements & you make money from ads, links, referrals & product sales.

We also have several eBooks available only for registered members that gives you further details on each niche, programs & such.

Method 2: The other way is more appropriate affiliate marketing, where your focus is to sell. You will run extensive promotions, both online & offline, to drive visitors to your product pages & would focus on converting visitors to customers.

Click Here to Read our Recommendations on Top Affiliate Networks we work with.

In this method, which is significantly different from the first one, you drive very specific set of readers to your websites & convince them to buy from your site. You make money from the commissions mainly.

Q5: What is the best way to start Affiliate Marketing for New Affiliates & New Bloggers?

These are 2 completely different tactics to make money online. However, many affiliate marketers start off simply by creating content (Method 1) & get to learn the ropes around internet marketing before they completely move onto affiliate marketing (Method 2).

Remember though, pure affiliate marketing (Method 2) earns you more money compared to content marketing (Method 1) & have completely different tactics to succeed.

Q6: Why do most people talk of building lists for Affiliate Marketing?

An email ID is one way to reach out to potential readers & customers even if they are not visiting your websites regularly. You can reach out to them proactively when you are running a special promotion or when you want to engage them in any discussions.

Q7: So if I have a large list of emails, will I make a lot of money by sending promotional emails?

That is the basic idea, what you send emails using the lists & they come to buy the products you are marketing. But the reality with lists & emails is quite different.

We work with a few email marketing companies for our businesses. Click Here to Read about our Preferred Email Marketing Partners.

Q8: What is the cost to set up the entire online business system for New Affiliate Marketers & New Bloggers?

Cost (& expenses) is the most important inhibiting factor for anyone who is starting new. However this also causes another problem that you do not notice upfront. While trying to save cost, new bloggers & new affiliate marketers either leave out essential things or do them in a cheap way that becomes a challenge when your business starts to grow.

We have a complete service from Creative Business Themes that set up a complete online business system in a way that is cheap, easy to maintain, low running costs & very scalable. If you are starting new, it will cost you less than USD 100 to get started.

Conclusion

The complete Q&A session was more exhaustive with about 20 questions that are very pertinent to anyone who is just beginning or are in new to affiliate marketing. However, these questions & answers will address most of the important ones that would help any new blogger or new affiliate marketer to get started the right way.

The Complete Q & A Session is available for download to our subscribers only.