Ten Affiliate Marketing Training Programs

Ten Affiliate Marketing Training Programs

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Affiliate Marketing Training

A company sends you an email about an affiliate marketing training program. You wonder, “what exactly is affiliate marketing, and why does it require training? The following affiliate marketing tips can help you get started.

Affiliate marketing provides a form of performance-based merchandising, which allows businesses to reward its associates for each visitor they direct to their website. The affiliate marketing game has four key players:

1. The merchant or retailer is the business that sells the product
2. The network provides the affiliate with a list of appropriate merchants, based on the predominant themes of their website. The network also tracks performance and pays the affiliate.
3. The affiliate is also referred to as the publisher of the cooperating website, as well as the recipient of the commissions.
4. The customer is the person who buys the product.

A well-designed affiliate marketing plan benefits both the merchant in search for an affordable advertising plan, and affiliate publishers, who want to monetize their blogs. The constantly-evolving process, however, is complex. If you know nothing, or relatively little about it, it behooves you to sign up for an affiliate marketing training program. In contrast, if you are already affiliate marketing savvy, some of the affiliate programs have their training programs. Here are some examples of both types of training.

1. Affilio Blueprint

Affilio Blueprint, often listed as one of the best affiliate marketing training programs, provides 12 modules, which teach you physical product niche marketing, info product niche marketing, authority model marketing, SEO, list building, PPC and CPA marketing. The company also offers bonus chapters on content marketing, guest blogging and other social media strategies. Designed for affiliate marketing novices, Affilio Blueprint provides user-friendly videos and free WordPress themes, making it the ideal way to learn affiliate marketing basics.

2. Udemy

For those who like to try before they buy, Udemy offers the ideal affiliate marketing training program, especially for those interested in the Amazon affiliate program. Before you commit to the training, site owner Luis Azcarate allows you to preview the different videos, which emphasize topics such as selecting products, creating affiliate links, domain name selection, WordPress installation and promotion.

3. Wealthy Affiliate University

Wealthy Affiliate University also offers users a free “starter account,” which allows them to test the waters. Even better, they offer 24-hour support. Their proficiency-based affiliate marketing training programs provides options for novice, intermediate and advanced marketers. When you join this training program, you reap the benefits of interaction with other affiliate marketers, as well as bespoke plans created for your specific needs, making it easy for you to learn affiliate marketing.

4. University of San Francisco Advance Affiliate Marketing

When you are ready to take your website monetizing campaign to the next level, the University of San Francisco offers and eight-week, online, affiliate marketing training program. The comprehensive program includes topics such as legal and ethical considerations, leveraging your affiliate channel for other areas of your business, selling executives on the affiliate marketing idea and more.

5. Econsultancy

If your  business or vacation plans deliver you to London England, Econsultancy conducts one-day affiliate marketing training programs. The course covers topics such as integrating SEO and affiliate marketing strategies, dealing with competition, trademark issues and monitoring results.

6. Dekh.com

Dekh.com is  an interesting site, in that it provides detailed information for both affiliates and merchants. A constantly-updated blog, along with a detailed series of guides and infographics provide a comprehensive overview of affiliate marketing. Best of all, most of the information is free.

7. Affiliate Summit

Affiliate Summit offers two, three day affiliate marketing training conferences. In 2014, one will take place in Las Vegas, and the other in New York City. These affiliate marketing boot-camps provide an effective means of networking with other marketers and learning new skills.

8. Commission Junction University

Commission Junction, one of the older and larger affiliate marketing programs, also offers an annual, three-day affiliate marketing training conference in Santa Barbara, California.  Commission Junction University, as it´s called,  offers educational sessions, plus networking opportunities.

9. Clickbank

ClickBank, another one  of the larger affiliate marketing programs, provides a detailed blog, chock full of helpful tips. Even better, they offer a free download of their ebook titled Monetize Your Blog with ClickBank.

10. Linkshare

Linkshare, yet another  affiliate program, offers an annual conference, online webinars, a monthly newsletter and online tutorials. It’s the ideal affiliate marketing for dummies program.

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Digital Product Marketing: Five More Ways to Promote Web Sales

April 4, 2012 By Karl Walinskas 2 Comments

In a previous article, I provided some of the essentials to promoting a digital product online. If you didn’t take those steps, revisit  Marketing Your Virtual Goods: 5 Essential Practices for Online Content Creators to benefit from low or no-cost methods of getting your product visible. Now that the basics are out of the way, here are 5 more techniques to not only get noticed, but convert prospects to sales.
1.  Samples & Reviews
Find outlets for articles you can write to provide help and advice while stealthily marketing the eBook. You can use article farms like Ezine Articles or Articles Base, but you can also search Technorati for comparable blogs online to your topic that have tons of traffic and accept submitted material from writers. Your submissions may contain text links or an author’s box that links to your eBook landing page(s). You have a couple of strategies here:

• Submit articles that are no-cost chapters from the eBook. Never give away the whole book, but a great chapter that provides value and tantalizes the reader for more.
• Write a book review about your book using an author alias, so it isn’t you reviewing your own work in the eyes of the online world. You can find 3rd party evaluators for your book by Google searching or visiting gig-oriented web sites like Fiverr.com.

2.  Purchase Visitors Directly
Using Google Adwords or any other internet ad forum, market your eBook within your permitted daily budget to drive people to your landing page. Facebook Ads, for example, can be very targeted based upon characteristics of the members in their database, segmented by age, region, language and activities. Now your ad is only served up to those who match the requirements, strengthening the odds that any visitors are really potential customer for your eBook and not simply money-wasting curiosity seekers.
3.  Joint Venture Alliances
If you don’t presently have a large email list, it will take a while before you have any reach to make headway with email marketing. That’s OK. Take advantage of business publications (start with the ones you read) that complement your subject to use their large distribution. How?
Contact the publisher or author and provide a commission for the good will of that individual or organization to promote and furnish an ad about your eBook. Learn how big the email list is. You can lease the list too, but may be able to get free access to it using the commission strategy. Don’t be pennywise; give the list operator 50-75 %. It’s a digital book! Your cost of delivery, once written and online, is null.
4.  The Amazon Jungle
Capitalize on the ridiculous amount of traffic that Amazon.com has of folks interested in reading books and sign up as an author. Amazon has a detailed policy for getting your eBooks online and priced on their website, and for this approach you don’t even have to manage the ecommerce. They do. As an Amazon.com affiliate, you can list your eBook alongside any others you are interested in on your website and earn commissions when your eBook is clicked through and purchased.
5.  Affiliate Promotion
Just like the JV example above, offer your book with similar commissions to affiliates who can sell it on their own web pages. Google search “affiliate marketplaces” or simply visit Clickbank, the largest affiliate marketplace for electronically downloadable products, and follow their set-up process to get your eBook listed and accessible for internet marketers, most of whom you will never see. Make the commissions attractive to get affiliates that will get results. To use this strategy like a pro, you’ll wish to produce several static and/or dynamic banner ads in standard sizes that your affiliate partners can retrieve and use on their websites to market your eBook.