Getting started with affiliate marketing in the UK

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn some extra income and maybe eventually being able to make it your primary occupation.
Don't be fooled by some of the things you read about it that will say you will be earning thousands of dollars in your first week, if it was that easy everybody would be doing it. Some people will tell you that anybody can turn their hand at it and you don't need any computer skills what so ever.
This is not true, i learnt this the hard way with many sleepless nights wondering what it was i was doing wrong. The answer was nothing, all it was is that it does take time to learn all the different ways to promote products.
Affiliate marketing is like any other business, the more time and effort you put into it the more you get out of it. This is also true with the money side of the business, the more you can afford to put in the more possibility that you will get money out of it sooner.
Time is the key attribute to affiliate marketing though. In my next few blogs i am going to explain the different ways of affiliate marketing, to start in this blog i am going to explain the first few steps of how to get started.

Affiliate networks

To get yourself started with affiliate marketing the first thing you need to do is sign up too a few affiliate networks. Now i will give you a couple just to get you started which are very easy and totally free to sign up too.
The first network i recommend you to sign up too is clickbank. This has a massive range of digital products to promote such as digital e-books for all kinds of products for anything you can possibly think of, from golf tips too gardening.
The second network i recommend is affiliate future. Here you will find different kinds of products to promote, from sporting goods websites too charity websites.
There are many more affiliate sites, but these kind of websites are the key websites you need to make you money.

programmes you may find useful

There are quite a few affiliate training websites you may find useful. These programmes do sometimes charge a small fee to enter a members only lounge that will be full of affiliate marketing training and ideas. some do promise to make you rich overnight, as i have said never believe this but don't let this put you off either a lot of these programmes can help with you online marketing venture.
i will show couple of these that have helped me on my way when i have been stuck.
====> google sniper. This is a free webinar explaining the training and product they are selling. Take a look click here.

====> The work from no home. This is also a free webinar.
Take your time to watch the videos, don't worry if you do not want to take the jump just yet to sign up too these programmes, i was very weary of it too until i had more of an idea of what affiliate marketing actually was.

In my next blog i will explain where it is you will post your links.
From on your own website to social networking sites.
Thank you for reading and i hope this and my next few blogs will be of much help.