How to start affiliate marketing

Steps to Launch Affiliate Marketing
1. Choose a Niche
Choose a niche that you have an interest in and has a demand-driven audience. Limiting your focus into a specific niche will help you build credibility and hopefully a loyal following.
2. Pick Your Platform
Once you have an audience, you need to determine where you are going to share the products. This could be on a blog, YouTube channel, social media, podcast, or email newsletter. Pick a platform that aligns with your strengths and fits where your audience is online.

3. Join Affiliate Programs
Once you figure out what you will promote, you must find and join affiliate programs that have products or services that are within your niche. Look for reputable programs that offer good commissions and products or services your audience will find useful.

4. Produce Useful Content
You are now ready to create content that is useful and/or entertaining to your audience, while effortlessly including your affiliate links in your content. This could come in the form of reviews, tutorials, comparisons, or recommendations.

5. Grow and Engage Your Audience
Continue to expand your audience using SEO practices, social media, email marketing, or forum community engagements. Establishing trust and rapport with your audience has to precede any type of sale you may encourage or recommend.

6. Disclose Clearly
Make certain, you are disclosing your affiliate relationship where and whenever you can. Always make clear that you have a relationship meriting your affiliate links.

7. Analyze Results and Optimize
Track your analytics, discover what works, what doesn’t, and improve your affiliate marketing oppositions to raise the conversion rate further and earn even more income.
Start with an appropriate niche you like, pick a platform that works for you and go get some free money!