Make Money in Zambia with Affiliate Marketing
What's Affiliate Marketing
Making money with Affiliate Marketing is one of the coolest ways to make money in Zambia. Affiliate Marketing refers to the promotion and selling of a company’s product with the aim of making commission (a percentage of the product’s price).
For example, if a product is selling at the price of K10 and the commission is set at 0.25%, then your commission is 0.25% of K10 which is K2.50.
That means you earn K2.50 for each product you sell at K10. If the
commission is 50%, you earn half of K10 which is K5 and so on…
The model is pretty clear. The more sales you make, the more affiliate commissions you earn.
Having said that, Affiliate Marketing boils down to promotion or advertising of products so that potential buyers can buy from us.
In other words getting our offer in front of customers who are
interested in buying what we have to offer.
Affiliate Marketing Tips
- Find perfect product
- Perfect/Suitable audience (potential customers)
- Perfect opportunity
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The vital secret in Affiliate Marketing is figuring out
which product to sell and identifying the suitable audience (customers) who
will buy from us.
This is obviously because at the end of the day we want to make those affiliate commissions that we so desire.
Apart from identifying the
product and suitable audience, we should also figure out the perfect
opportunity to promote our product.
It’s kinda like selling lemonade on a hot sunny day down at the beech. In such an instance, you have a perfect product (cold drink), with a suitable audience (thirsty people) and the perfect opportunity to market your product.
You are presented with a good opportunity in such a scenario, which means you are bound to make sales at the end of the day.
We can also translate this attitude into the online realm because the same principle applies.
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If you want to succeed in online marketing,
you have to figure out what product you want to promote, which audience will be
suitable to buy the product, where your audience hangs out online and the
perfect opportunity to get your offer in front of your audience (customers).
Niches and sub-niches
Find out what niche or sub-niche you are interested in and find the perfect products your audience will definitely love.
Niches are specific communities that businesses target to promote their goods and services.
For instance you may be interested in selling health products,
clothing (fashion), gadgets (phones, laptops etc), or digital products like
ebooks and softwares and so on.
These niches may have sub-niches, like for example under health you may have sexual libido products, health and fitness as well as nutritional and dietary products.
So make sure you know which niche and
specific sub-niche you are targeting before you sign up for any Affiliate
Network to start promoting.
Affiliate Networks
Affiliate Networks are sites that provide a platform for both affiliate marketers (you) and merchants (product owners) to conduct business transactions.
You get to promote someone’s product at a set commission. Some
affiliate networks are specific to a particular niche while others are wholly
encompassing.
The Image below shows various brands of Affiliate Networks
You can simply Google search “health affiliate programs” to find out which affiliate networks offer health products. You can do the same for any other niche that you decide to target.
On the other hand, some sites
like Amazon and Ebay are holistic, meaning you can find any niche including
wealth, health, electronics, fashion etc.
These sites have affiliate programs that you can join and freely promote products from their marketplace.
You can also consider joining
these affiliate networks to start your affiliate marketing career:
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Affiliate Marketing Promotion Methods
Now that we’ve covered and understood the basics of affiliate marketing and decided to join an affiliate networking site, it’s time to figure out a plan of how to promote our products.
We need to identify our
audience and figure out where they hang out online.
Human beings being the social creatures that we are love interacting on social media and online forums. Those are the places we will search for potential leads.
Social networks like Facebook have specific niche groups and pages where we can find our ideal audience who may be interested in what we have to offer.
And like I earlier stated, make sure you figure out a niche because
there are different Facebook groups dedicated to sport, health, dating etc.
So make sure you know your sub-niche and what products will be suitable in that niche.
Once we figure out who our target audience are,
where they spend their time online, what their interests are and the perfect
opportunity to present our offers, it’s time to apply our promotion methods.
Some promotional methods involve spending money on advertisements while others don’t. If you don’t have money to invest in ads or email marketing tools, don’t just go around posting your affiliate links everywhere.
This behavior is considered spam, you might get banned and your
account terminated. So make sure you familiarize yourself with a social media’s
terms and conditions.
There are free ways you can promote your offers without spamming the network.
The other thing you have to put in mind is that people
are on social media to interact and not to buy anything, so your promotional
behavior may be annoying to other people.
There are some people who will go to a Facebook political group such as "ZNBC Top Stories" and post “Hello Zambians, you can make $2000 a day, ask me how”.
This kind of behavior may annoy people because you are interrupting the flow of a discussion and they may not be interested in what you are offering. And what has making money got to do with the current topic of discussion anyway?
Market your offer to people who are interested in what you are offering. People found in a political group are interested in politics and discussing current affairs.
Are you telling me that they’ll bat an eye lid on
your money making whatever?
Like I earlier stated make sure you know who your target
audience are. If you don’t do your homework correctly, you will fail before
you’ve even began. And with that kind of spammy behavior your account will be
disabled.
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Below in the subsequent paragraphs are some promotional methods that require initial investment. But before, I write about those methods, I will highlight some free strategies you can use on social media and online forums to market your products effectively.
You may probably be new to affiliate marketing, so I urge you to start promoting your affiliate offers using these free methods and strategies.
You can apply them on social media without necessarily spamming the networks.
Free Promotional Methods
Promote Affiliate Offers on Twitter
Promote Affiliate Offers on Facebook
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Paid Promotional Methods
1. Advertisements
Most affiliate marketers earn their living online, and they do this via online ads. You can buy ad placements on Google adwords, Facebook ads, Twitter ads, Reddit ads etc.
Buying advertisement space on these giant
platforms gives you an opportunity to reach the masses because millions of
people visit these sites every single day.
Given the perfect product, the right audience and the perfect opportunity your ad in whatever niche is bound to capture so many leads.
There are so many ebooks and materials online that have covered online
ads and other related topics. If you want to succeed the easy and faster way in
affiliate marketing, investing in ads is one way to do it.
A lot of people usually head to Google to search about their desired needs or solution to certain problems. It could be health related, dating, or whatever it may be.
If their search is related to your offer, your
ad will show up and you are bound to make leads and possibly sales.
Same goes for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, their ad programs are laser targeted to your ideal audience and you are more likely to capture leads on these platforms if you know what you are doing.
If you have
the budget to make such an investment, the returns could be lucrative.
However, if you don’t know what you are doing, you don’t know your audience, and you promote the wrong product, you will lose your investment.
Just make sure you know what you are getting yourself into and the
risks you are facing. There’s no guarantee that you will make any money from
online ads.
But if you are successful, you can earn yourself thousands and even millions of dollars. Other people have done it before, and are still doing it and so can you.
The main goal is to make more profit on your investment. If you can spend $100 on ads and your return is $10,000, you will have earned yourself $9,900 profit on your investment.
And you already know how much that
kind of money is if converted in kwacha
This post is not enough to cover advertisements. I only wanted to point out one way you can promote your affiliate product to your ideal audience.
It involves spending money first and hopefully get a profitable
return in the end.
2. Email Marketing
Another way affiliate marketers earn their commissions is through email marketing. Email Marketing involves promoting products and offering valuable information to your leads with the aim of making sales.
Unlike buying ads, Email Marketing takes quite some time before you start seeing results.This is because you have to build up or collect an email list from potential leads.
Have you ever stumbled on a web page which had valuable information that intrigued you and at the end was something like “signup to get more updates” or “signup to get free ebook”?
If you submitted your email, you were added to an email list. This is one way affiliate marketers entice their audience to take action.
Once they collect those email addresses, they can promote their affiliate products to their subscribers any time they wish.
There’s no
guarantee that your subscribers will buy your offers, so your main aim should
be helping them with valuable information until they finally come to trust you
as an authority in your niche.
In order to deliver your emails to your subscribers, you will need to spend on email tools like auto-responder services to deliver your emails in bulk.
There are ebooks and other materials online that deal with
email marketing, simply search them on Google and you will get what you want.
Email Marketing takes time, money and effort to succeed. This promotional method is for advanced professional marketers who know what they are doing.
As a newbie you may want to look at other ways to promote your products. Or at least take your time to learn it step by step very well. It is just as effective as online ads.
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3. Solo ads
Buying solo ads is another way of promoting your affiliate products. It’s similar to Email Marketing, if not the same.
The only difference is that
you pay someone with an already established email list to have your offer
promoted. So it’s like a shortcut to the time consuming email list building.
Instead of collecting emails from potential leads which can be time consuming, you simply pay someone to have your affiliate offer integrated in their marketing campaign.
Since the owners know their list of subscribers very well, we have to trust that they know what they are doing.
If
our product has a high conversion rate (easily sold) and is relevant to our
audience, then there’s a high probability that we will capture leads and
possibly make sales.
There’s no guarantee that we will make any money if we invest in solo ads. However, if we are successful, the returns can be highly profitable.
This is the risk that you have to take if you want to earn
affiliate commissions the easy and fast way. You may possibly lose all your
investment money in solo ads, just like all the promotional methods which
require an initial investment.
Learn more about solo ads before you even consider investing
in such a venture or else you will lose all your money with nothing to show for
it.
Udimi is one of the solo ad networks that you may want to consider if you decide to go this route.
Visit their website and peruse through
the different categories or niches where you can buy solo ads from. They have
the money making niche, dating, health among others.
This is a fast and amazing way you can easily succeed with affiliate marketing if you know what you are doing. The same marketing principle still applies here as well.
Find the perfect product, the right
audience (hungry buyers) and your solo ad seller will figure out the perfect
opportunity to promote your product.
This is what it takes to make money online with affiliate marketing. It may take a long time before you start seeing results. If you easily give up in your first couple of months, you may perhaps consider getting a job in the real world.
If you are a quitter and don’t have what it takes, perhaps you should consider something else. What may work for someone else may not work for you.
So know yourself and figure out your valuable skills, or at least be willing to learn. Put in that effort, ambition and drive to succeed, if others are doing it so can you.
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Final Thoughts
Zambians can make money with affiliate marketing. We now live in a global village and certain affiliate networks are accessible to all parts of the world.
This means you can work from the comfort of your home and
be able to promote digital products all over the world. You can literally earn
affiliate commissions from big retail companies like Amazon and Ebay.
All your earnings are wired directly to your bank or you could choose a different payment method to get your commissions. You don’t have to deal with bosses, or being late for work and all the shenanigans.
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