The document discusses affiliate marketing and provides information about how to get started, including finding products that fit your brand and endorse willingly, verifying they have an affiliate program, and targeting programs with high affiliate rates and good fit with your brand. It also notes some potential benefits of affiliate marketing, such as a significant passive income stream, but cautions the need to maintain transparency with readers.

1. • Simple to get started
• Potential for significant passive
income stream
• Create more actionable posts for your
readers
• BUT, maintain transparency and don’t
lose trust with your readers
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2. “Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by
promoting other people’s (or company’s) products. You find a
product you like, promote it to others and earn a piece of the
profit for each sale that you make.”
-Pat Flynn www.smartpassiveincome.com
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5. Evaluation
• The affiliate channel powers a variety of established design publisher
websites providing content to consumers as they evaluate brand
options and add new ones.
• Search engines and shopping comparison publishers let users cross-
shop at a destination for consumers desiring more control over how
they research products.
• Content & Community publishers, a.k.a. the blogosphere, is on the
rise in the affiliate channel. When a trusted blogger makes a
recommendation, their readers listen…and often convert.
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Affiliate Marketing – how to get started
Attractiveness of Affiliate
Program
• Identify Products that fit your
Brand and that you willingly
endorse
• Verify they have Affiliate
program
• Average affiliate rates for
product sale leads in home
space are 3-5%. Some Affiliates
also pay on Cost Per Click
• Smaller companies often have
more attractive rates
Fit with
your
Brand
High
Low
Low
High
Target =
High Fit +
High Rates

9. • “Anything that makes my life easier in terms of technology,
increasing our revenue, or helping us build relationships with
affiliates…is the best. Not a lot of companies do that, but VigLink
does.”
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10. Affiliate Marketing
Resources & Programs
• www.viglink.com
• marketing.rakuten.com/index.php
• www.cj.com
• http://nichehacks.com/affiliate-blog/
• https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/
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