Affiliate Marketing

The direct affiliate marketing approach aims to promote products and services in posts. For example, you create a Facebook post about a book that you read and include an affiliate link from Amazon.com. A user who clicks on the link will go straight to Amazon. By contrast, the indirect approach aims to direct traffic to a site where affiliate links are present. For instance, you post your blog about the best marketing tools. That post contains affiliate links.

I use direct and indirect methods as they’re both useful. I typically use direct ways to promote free items, trials, and pay per lead programs because they’re low resistance and high-converting. I direct traffic to my blog when I want to influence, persuade, and provide commentary and insights.

If you’re new to affiliate marketing, perhaps you caught wind of the hype surrounding high-ticket affiliate programs. “High-ticket” refers to products and services that cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. For example, some online training programs cost more than $1,000, while some auctions on eBay run into the tens of thousands. We’ll review the best high-ticket affiliate programs for beginners and experienced marketers in this post.

The standard way to make money as an affiliate marketer is through sales commissions. For instance, I promote various WordPress plugins on my site. A click on one of my affiliate links, followed by a sale, will result in a commission for me. Successful affiliate marketers who earn four and five-figures monthly rely on sales commissions. However, money can be made elsewhere and with more ease through pay-per-lead (PPL) affiliate programs.

A pay-per-lead affiliate program is a type of cost-per-action (CPA) program that compensates an affiliate for getting prospects. It’s also known as cost-per-lead (CPL) and pay per action (PPA).

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