Should you use affiliate marketing to supplement your coaching income? Can you make money in affiliate marketing?

I have done a lot of consulting in the affiliate marketing field – I consulted both business owners who want to create and run an affiliate program and people who want to use affiliate programs to make money with them.
It is possible to make money in affiliate marketing, but you have to treat it just like any other business and promote it just like any other business.

By this I mean:

– Create an effective web site around a particular topic or around a particular target market.

– Use affiliate products that are relevant to the topic of the web site. If your web site is about coaching, you will need coaching products. If your web site
is about gardening, use gardening products, etc.

– Drive traffic specifically to SELL your affiliate products. Since you are only making money when you sell, you need to structure your marketing campaigns and bring in traffic that will actually buy from you.

Just listing links to books, ebooks, or any other products will not sell much. You need to actively market the web site and affiliate products in order to bring in the sales.

This is why I usually recommend to my clients who want to get into affiliate marketing to create a whole new web site where they promote the affiliate products.

It is fine to list book recommendations on your coaching web site, but since your main web site is about you and your services, you are not free to promote the affiliate products that much.

When you create a web site that is all about promoting affiliate products only, you are much freer to experiment with different marketing techniques and make more money as a result.

I run an affiliate program for my own products, and the affiliates who make the most money with my products are the ones who spend the time on using different online marketing techniques to promote them.

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Biana Babinsky

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