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Affiliate marketing is an ideal way to make more money from home. Having covered the basics in the previous training, this transcript on the training on how to earn from your couch through affiliate marketing will guide you in the strategies to use to make money online, and help create another income revenue source for you.

Meet our Facilitator:

Akinbobola is a certified animal scientist, blogger and information marketer. He owns and manages a few information blogs and digital assets. He has been making money online legally through blogging, selling ebooks, and affiliate marketing.

Training Outline

The outline of the training on Affiliate Marketing is as follows:

  • How to scout for high paying affiliate websites
  • Step-by-step process on earning your first affiliate commission
  • How to manage multiple income sources
  • Best practices on the promotion of products

How to Scout for High-Paying Affiliate Websites

As mentioned in the previous training on affiliate marketing, there are many affiliate websites on the internet. Some are low paying, some are high paying and some are scams. So, it is important to work with genuine and high paying affiliate websites.

Now, if you want to work with any affiliate websites, some vital things to look out for include;

You must check their online credibility

To find how credible an affiliate website is, go to google.com and type the name of the company and add two additional keywords “scam” and “fraud”. The search results will come up. Check the first 10 results to read reviews or trust score of each site. You can evaluate their credibility with what you’ve seen and the reviews you read.

Ensure that their payment method works in Nigeria

This particular information is always on the affiliate portal and you can send them an email to confirm. If they can’t send affiliate earnings to your Nigerian account, please don’t work with them. It will be a waste of effort.

Find out the percentage they pay for each sale referred.

Some companies pay the same percentage commission for all products, while some pay different commissions for different products or categories. So, you will use the information to decide if you want to work with them or not.

Affiliate marketing

Furthermore, I will always recommend that you start with local affiliate companies or websites. This is important so that if you have any issues or problems, you can communicate easily with them as well as visit their physical office. As mentioned last week, the reputable companies with credible affiliate programmes in Nigeria are Afrimash.com, Konga.com and Jumia.com

I have worked with two of them (Afrimash and Jumia) and a friend with one (Konga). They have a good commission rate and online credibility.

You can also Google high paying affiliates in Nigeria for additional companies, but I think the three are still worth working with.

Step-by-Step Process on Earning Your First Affiliate Commission.

Now, after registering at your most preferred affiliate companies, wait for them to approve your application. Take a look at their Affiliate member dashboard and ensure you understand all that is in there. Don’t overlook anything. If there is a need to include additional information about yourself, please do. If you don’t understand anything, ensure you contact your affiliate manager to put you through. However, the more you familiarize yourself with the dashboard, the more you will know it well.

Now, after they have approved you, the next thing is to work on your creatives. Before that, you must decide on the type of products you want to promote.

There are expensive products, and there are cheap products. To determine the products to promote, you need to evaluate your audience or intended audience. Now, I will reveal the method I use.

  • Go to https://ahrefs.com/keyword-generator and insert the name of a product and choose Nigeria, and click find a keyword. It will give you an idea of the search volume the product is getting every month. Try this for products you believe people are highly demanding for just to know their popularity or how people are looking for them.
    Clue: People have high interests in household goods, cosmetics, farm inputs (chicks, seeds and seedlings, cages, medicines etc). These are areas I will recommend you target.
  • Decide on how you will promote the products. If you cannot create a website or blog due to financial constraints, I will tell you how to get sales without spending money. If you have a good number of followers or friends on Facebook and WhatsApp, then this trick is cool for you.
  • After knowing the product you want to promote, Day Old Chicks for example, then create a group on WhatsApp or Telegram. WhatsApp is most popular though. After creating that group, name it something like Successful Chicken Farming Group or something that has chicken in it. Use any of the graphics designing apps on your phone or computer to design captivating graphics with chickens on it.
  • Create short, captivating content or post on how someone can make money through chicken farming such as broilers and include your WhatsApp group link. Make sure you add ‘Join my Free WhatsApp Class on How to Raise Chicken Successfully’.

Don’t worry! Even if you are not a professional in raising chickens. Remember, I mentioned in the previous training that you should choose a product that you have basic knowledge about. This is where you need to apply that principle.

  • Don’t start the training immediately, allow many people to join the group, but you can keep those who have joined engaged by giving them short tips (like an appetizer). When you have a reasonable number of members, you can start your sensible stories and lectures on how to raise big broilers. There are many resources online regarding this topic. Get your tips from them. And add yours too.
  • After you have gained their confidence, and they enjoyed your lectures, tell them you can recommend the best broiler chicks’ vendor to them and they don’t even need to visit any place physically. That they can place an order for their chicks at the comfort of their homes and they will get their chicks delivered.
  • Now post your affiliate links for day-old chicks. PLEASE tell them you have been using them and they delivered as promised and if any issues occur, they will sort it out quickly. You’re doing this to make them purchase confidently without the fear that someone will run away with their money. We all know Nigerians are skeptical when it comes to buying things online.

So, if you gave a nice lecture/training, you will have a lot of people who are ready to start by placing an order for the chicks through your link. It’s as simple as that.

Now, if you don’t have the time for WhatsApp group training, other methods you can use are

  • Compile a good story on how someone lost huge money because he /she bought low-quality chicks from one vendor. Now, tell them there is a place they can get quality chicks without any problem and the chicks will be delivered to them in good conditions wherever they are. Just add your affiliate link at the end of the story and tell your follower to share the post if they like it.

The more the post is shared the more the possibility a potential buyer will see it.

Now use this particular strategy for any products you want to promote. As I said, make sure it is a product you have a basic, medium or deep knowledge about. From my experience, the group method is always effective.

Also, you can join groups on Facebook and WhatsApp with members who may need the products you want to promote. But I want to tell you some things you should do and what you shouldn’t do. Don’t join and start pasting your affiliate links in the group. This is spamming. Just like I will do, I will ban you straight-off. Participate in post. Advice people on matters relating to the product you intend to promote and show some level of authority. You can now give the link as a solution.

Affiliate marketing

Before I proceed, note this link bit.ly you can use that link to shorten your affiliate URL. Just go to that website, add your affiliate link and click shorten. you will have something like https://bit.ly/ahju34w.

This will mask your URL and the person clicking may not know it is an affiliate link

  • Post photos of the product on your Facebook and WhatsApp stories. You can post like 5 varieties of these products. And use your affiliate link as captions or after posting the pictures for those who are interested in buying the products online.
  • For those who have access to a computer and internet, you can make use of free CMS (Content Management System) such as Blogspot.com and WordPress.com

If you are tech-savvy, create your blog using any of these platforms and write product reviews around the products you are promoting. Don’t forget to add your affiliate link within the post or articles. After publishing those contents or articles, share it on all your social media account.

Well, I would have loved to share more details about the blogging part, but it is another training entirely

Affiliate Marketing & How to Manage Multiple Income Sources

Income sources are places where you are earning money from, including your physical job. Working and making money online is another income source. So, it is important to manage all to avoid scenarios where one is affecting another.

First and foremost, always manage your time well. During your free time at work, you can curate articles or content for products you want to promote. You can also work on this before you sleep at night. It might not be an everyday thing, but make sure you are consistent.

Also, you can take advantage of the weekend to do more research on the product you are promoting as well as learn new skills.

Lastly, always work when your body and mind is settled. Sometimes, after taking a delicious meal. Inspiration comes.

Best Practices on Promotion of Products in Affiliate Marketing

Before this, there are situations when you work with various affiliate companies promoting different products. Make sure you see which promotion convert most and channel your energy on those products that convert well. You can neglect others with little or no conversion.

Now, the best practices on Promoting Product are;

  • Always avoid controversial products or unethical products. They usually have a very little conversion.
  • Before you start promoting any product, ensure you know what it is all about. These are the things you will share with your audience and earn their trust.
  • Don’t spam your links all over the internet, you are harming company’s reputation, wasting your time and damaging your account.
  • Work with products you like or you have a good interest in and drop a product that is not working well for you
  • Research your audience well before you start promoting. For example, you shouldn’t be promoting fish when you know your audience is interested in beef.
  • When it seems your strategies are not working, don’t give up. Improve on the existing strategies and you will see the money coming.
  • Above all, be patient while you promote, some buyers don’t buy instantly. Keep throwing the information at them. One day, they will take action.

Question

Question: “As an affiliate is there any need to be registered with CAC first (i.e. registered business name) before one starts?” –  Hosy
Response: No, you don’t need any business name let alone a registered business to start affiliate marketing. And no company with affiliate programmes will require any affiliate to be a registered business before you can work with their company. Thanks!

Question: “Can an affiliate website be an e-commerce site. Like can the set-up be an e-commerce designed website but an affiliate for a company or companies?” – Richard
Response: 99% of affiliate sites are an e-commerce site. Yes, it is very possible to set up an affiliate-based e-commerce site. Many websites are promoting Amazon and Aliexpress products that use this technique.

Question: “Do you get to be an affiliate for a variety of products in a different sector or it’s better to have a niche?” – Richard
Response: Focusing on niche works and converts well. It also makes you learn more about the niche -you can even become a professional in promoting the product.

Question: “Would there be after a class guide or help from you or the organizers on related issues?” – Richard
Response: I will discuss with the organizers to see what we can do. But I will be willing to provide after-class assistance.

Question: “About paid advertising. Which advert platform converts the most or which will you recommend?” –  God’s Deed.
Response: Well, paid advertising can also be adopted. However, for an effective or converting advert, you must be good at targeting the right audience and most importantly, you will need to confirm if the advert platform accepts referral URL, else you will need to use your website as the landing page. I will recommend Facebook and Google AdWords are still the most popular due to their billions of audiences.

Question: “I’m into poultry farming (Broilers). My question is, how can I just start advertising on a particular product (let’s say “Hybrid Feed”) when I don’t have any contact with the company or her distributor agents?”
Response: You don’t need the contact of the product owner. All you have to do is to refer to sales. Whoever has concerns with a product is not expected to meet you for solutions, always refer them to the company they purchased from.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we appreciate all participants for making this training a success. We also have our general affiliates group, where you can be added to, for more interactions after registration, you can learn more about affiliate marketing and get content to broadcast across other platforms directly from us after registration.

To register for our affiliate program at Afrimash, you can visit the link below:

Afrimash Affiliate Programme

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