Promote Affiliate Marketing With Free Resources

by Adrienne Smith on July 17, 2009

in Affiliate Marketing

Promoting affiliate marketing with free resources is a great way to get your information in front of hungry buyers. Although the concept of affiliate marketing may sound pretty easy, there is a little more involved than just finding a product, driving traffic to that site, make a sale and earn a commission.

All affiliate programs are not created equal. What I mean by this is that some affiliate programs offer their affiliates more support, the tools for creating better campaigns, premade advertising methods, etc. If a particular program has an award winning website that converts more traffic, why wouldn’t they want to provide their affiliates with the tools to drive even more traffic to the sales page! It’s a win win situation.

As with any type of program you decide to get involved in, do your research. If you find a product that you want to promote, but their website isn’t very enticing, go with your gut feeling about whether you feel this is a good product for you to promote. Find out about their affiliate program and what they have to offer. Do they have the tools to help you create better campaigns! I am a big believer in going with your gut. It is usually never wrong.

If you are just starting out promoting affiliate products, it’s not necessary to invest money into your own website, hosting, domains, autoresponders, etc. for creating your business. You will want to consider all of these things once you have reached some success with affiliate marketing. Since the money “is in the list”, you will want to eventually build your own list so that you can continue to promote other products.

There are literally tons of free resources you can use to promote your affiliate marketing campaigns. Sites such as Squidoo, Blog Posting (Blogger and WordPress), Hub Pages, Article Marketing (EZine Articles, Go Articles, Article Dashboard, Article Base), Press Releases, Weebly, Wetpaint and many more.

You also have social networking sites as well as social book marketing sites that can link back to your articles, lens or free websites. There are so many different free resources available online.

Affiliate marketing is truly a wonderful way to start making money online. By using free resources to promote your campaigns and learning the techniques and methods to succeed, you can start building your own successful business today.

If you would like to take a look at the first 18 pages of the course I use that taught me all these neat little tricks for promoting affiliate marketing, just go to Get Started Now. You can read about the course, what it has to offer and then make your own decision if this is the course for you.

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1 Joker October 8, 2009 at 1:59 AM

I have already seen it somethere…
Have a nice day
Joker

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2 GlenStef October 22, 2009 at 3:03 AM

Hi there,
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your teachaffiliatemarketing.com.
GlenStef

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3 Affiliate Profits Online February 11, 2010 at 3:18 PM

I am a frequent reader of your site and would just like to thanks! I have even been inspired to start my own blog.

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4 Adrienne February 11, 2010 at 3:34 PM

That’s great new about starting your own blog and if you ever need any help, please give me shout. I can definitely point you in the right direction. It’s a lot of fun sharing information with others.

I appreciate you commenting on my post and do hope you will stop back by again in the future. Anything I can do to help, I’m open.

Have a great day!

Adrienne

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5 Mini Site Formula February 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM

I love to use WordPress to build my money making sites because it is such an easy platform to use and you can do so much with it. The only downside is that you can only work on your sites while online, but for me that isn’t really a problem as i do all my work from my PC which is always connected to the internet. Would you say WP is the best platform to build sites with, or would you recommend something else?

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6 Adrienne February 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM

For my affiliate sites, I prefer using WordPress. it is simple and easy to use and you can be up and running in no time at all.

But, for my capture pages and for website information, I prefer using XSitePro. It’s a software for building websites and is very easy to use. You also can be up and running in just a few minutes. If you are interested in taking a look, you can find it at http://www.XSitePro.com.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I’ll see you again soon.

Adrienne

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7 Nora Kossey February 19, 2010 at 10:41 PM

Keep posting, I enjoy hearing what you have to say! I’m bookmarking this page. Do you have any other blogs?

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8 Adrienne February 19, 2010 at 11:21 PM

Thanks Nora, I appreciate your comment.

Actually I have 5 other blogs besides this one but they are on different subjects.

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9 Affiliate Profit Tips February 20, 2010 at 6:51 PM

I am a regular reader of your site and would just like to say thank you! I have even been inspired to setup my own blog.

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10 Secret Affiliate Income February 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM

Every time I see blogs as good as this I KNOW I should stop surfing and start working on mine!

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11 Adrienne February 21, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Thank you for that comment… Once you find some information that you find helpful, stick with it and learn from it. And YES, you need to work on your blog. I’m sure it will be very useful and helpful to others as well. Good luck with that.

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12 Adrienne February 21, 2010 at 11:26 AM

Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. It’s very much appreciated. Glad you have found my posts helpful. Be sure to sign up for my RSS feed so you can receive my posts frequently. Thanks again.

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13 Alena Fors February 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM

This is put together nice, I hope you have a nice day!

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14 Maurice Thi February 22, 2010 at 11:17 PM

It will positively guide me! Bless you!

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15 Adrienne February 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM

Thank you Maurice for your comment. It’s very much appreciated.

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16 Adrienne February 23, 2010 at 9:13 AM

Thank you Alena for your comment… I hope you also have a very nice day.

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17 Deann Francisque March 16, 2010 at 9:15 AM

I was searching on Yahoo for affiliate networks that pay via paypal when I found your site. You have some great advice to offer, I’ll be sure to watch for more from you, you can never have too much information.

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18 Adrienne March 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM

Thanks for the comment Deann and I hope my posts have been helpful. Just sign up for my RSS feed and you will be notified when I have a new post. Thanks again for the comment, it’s always appreciated.

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19 Sheena Shiers March 16, 2010 at 2:53 PM

I was googling for affiliate programs to add to my portfolio and came upon your site. It looks like you have some helpful information here, I’ve subscribed to your rss feed and will put you in my favorites folder. Thanks for inspiring me.

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20 Adrienne March 16, 2010 at 4:33 PM

Thank you Sheena for your comment. It’s always appreciated and I’m glad to be of help. I hope you find some of my information helpful. Thank you for your comment…

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21 Xrumer Unleashed March 16, 2010 at 11:19 PM

I’m quite new to wordpress. but what you write in this post is really good and very informative. I think it will help me in the future. Thanks for the great job.

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22 Adrienne March 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Thank you for that comment, it’s very much appreciated. I love free resources so when I find some worth mentioning, I enjoy sharing. If these tips help in any way, I’ve done what I set out to do. Thanks again and hope you’ll be back to visit again.

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23 affiliate stores March 21, 2010 at 6:26 AM

Thanks for the Post. It was great to read and great info.

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24 Adrienne March 22, 2010 at 8:27 AM

I appreciate your comment and thank you. Glad you enjoyed my post.

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25 Lynetta Lisenbee March 26, 2010 at 12:49 AM

Hi – This is really a excellent web site

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26 Adrienne March 26, 2010 at 8:16 AM

I’m really glad that you have found the information on my blog helpful and I do hope you’ll be back to visit again. Thanks for the comment.

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27 Caleb Chaknis April 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM

Superb site, where did you come up with the information in this article? Im glad I found it though, ill be checking back soon to see what other articles you have.

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28 Adrienne April 12, 2010 at 1:54 PM

Thanks for your comment Caleb.. I have learned how to promote affiliate products successfully online so I continue to share with others what I have learned so that they can make their own informed decision whether or not this is something they care of get into. I’m glad you found this post helpful and there are many more posts to come.

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29 Adrienne April 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM

Thank you for your comment Reba… The way to subscribe to my RSS feed is either at the beginning of each post it will ask you if you want to subscribe or there is an RSS feed icon in the top right hand corner of this blog. Hope this was helpful.

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30 Aaron Trucchio April 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM

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31 Adrienne April 19, 2010 at 12:57 PM

SEO information interests me as well. Another reason I enjoy giving as much information that will help others succeed as possible. Thanks so much for your comment.

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32 Polly Southwell April 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM

I don’t agree with everything in this posting, but you do make some very good points. Im very interested in this subject and I myself do alot of research as well. Either way it was a well thoughtout and nice read so I figured I would leave you a comment. Feel free to check out my website sometime and let me know what you think.

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33 Adrienne April 19, 2010 at 6:32 PM

Well I appreciate your comment even if you don’t 100% agree. Just glad you felt I had some interesting points. I went to your website to review your content but it’s in a different language so I’m totally lost.

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34 Sang Belongie April 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM

I have read a few of the articles on your website now, and I really like your style of blogging. I added it to my favorites web page list and will be checking back soon. Please check out my site as well and let me know what you think.

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35 Adrienne April 20, 2010 at 2:24 PM

Thank you Sang for your comment, it’s always appreciated. I did check out your website and you have some really good information regarding education. I see no links on your site though and no place for me to comment so I do hope this will be enough. You have a high page rank with your site so it must be doing really well. Congratulations. Keep up the great work. I know you are providing really great information regarding education.

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36 Libby Murray July 9, 2010 at 7:42 AM

I really want to learn about Book Marketing but i have no talent for writing.-”,

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37 Adrienne July 9, 2010 at 9:51 AM

Everyone can write, it’s just the way you think about it. I was recently featured on EZine Articles’s Blog and I would love for you to read what I wrote. That might help you get past your thoughts about writing and help you to move forward. You can find that post by clicking here.

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38 Sam Wilkinson July 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM

book marketing offline is quite time consuming but if we talk about online book marketing, it is a different story*.”

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39 Adrienne July 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM

Anyway you look at it, bookmarking is time consuming. Unless you hire someone else to do all the work. Then it’s a breeze..

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40 Jocuri Online October 9, 2010 at 10:58 AM

“I’d like to say that you always offer valid information and I have been an fascinated reader of your site for quite some time. I wanted to say thankyou really :) for all the good work you do!”

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41 AdrienneTwitter: adriennesmith40 October 9, 2010 at 11:26 AM

Thank you for your comment and it’s always appreciated..

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42 learn affiliate marketing October 12, 2010 at 10:28 PM

I have looked at many sites and not come across such a site as yours that tells everyone everything they need to know. I have added you to my bookmarks, can anyone else suggest other related topics that I can search for to find out more information?

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43 AdrienneTwitter: adriennesmith40 October 12, 2010 at 11:31 PM

Thanks for the comment and happy to hear that my blog has been very helpful with learning affiliate marketing. I would recommend just doing a Google search on whatever topic you are interested in at the moment and I’m sure you will find the information you are searching for. Good luck!

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