Getting started with affiliate marketing in Nigeria could result in a lifetime opportunity for you.

In this thread you’ll discover the best affiliate marketing programs and strategies to make passive income.

It by far one of the most lucrative businesses you could do and start making money online.

Based on Statista’s report, affiliate marketing spending will reach $8.2 billion by 2022.

This doesn’t mean you’ll be parking money on the internet after just joining a top paying affiliate programs

There are things you need to do before you can become a successful affiliate marketer.

So, as a beginner, this thread will walk you through the exact process.

You’re going to learn the fundamentals of marketing other people’s business and earning commissions online.

Affiliate marketing being one of the most profitable online businesses and you no longer have an excuse for not making money online.

This is the kind of business you do where you don’t need to have your own product, inventory, shop or need to import goods before you can make money.

As everything you need is taken care of by the affiliate marketing companies you work with, your own is just to market for them.

You’ll help them promote their products and recommend new customers to them.

While the companies take care of the expenses of running the business – designing, producing and delivery of the products and you get your own shares in their profits.

If you can persuade people and influence their purchasing decisions, then affiliate marketing could be a great way for you leverage to make money online.

Meanwhile, affiliate marketing for beginners may be challenging and difficult.

But the truth is you have to put in quality effort to earn big commissions.

And if you can follow the right strategies and approach, affiliate marketing really pays off.

Alright folks let's proceed

Here is what you would be learning:

What is Affiliate Marketing?
How to do Affiliate Marketing the right way.
Steps in Starting as An Affiliate
and Many more...

The business of Affiliate Marketing could make you your first 6 figures in less than a month but you would need to put in necessary efforts to succeed.

That means you need to know the strategies to earn affiliate commissions and implent them all of which you would be learning as we go.

Firstly what is Affiliate Marketing?

According to Wikipedia, affiliate marketing is a “performance-based” marketing strategy.

It is a system that allows big businesses to reward you and I for marketing and bringing new customers to buy their products or services.

this means when you promote a product for a business you get paid for it.
Businesses that offer this include Online Stores, Digital Agencies etc.

To promote a product/services you can use your website, blog or social media pages to market.

But before joining an Affiliate program, it’s important for you to know how affiliate marketing works...

...if you have tried making money online then you would know by now that you have to work before making money online especially with affiliate marketing.

However, this steps explains how Affiliate Marketing works:

✓ Choose a Product
✓ Present it to Customers
✓ Customers is Satisfied and Buy
✓ You Earn

#1. Choose a Product
Once you are signing up with an affiliate program, you Identify a product and commit your efforts to promote that product.

Ask any affiliate to tells you how he makes certain figures monthly.

the answer won’t be different from commitment

Now If you’re looking for how to make money online and you need a quicker path than this, I’m sorry to tell you there is no short cut.

My guarantee to you is that you can't make money doing a legitimate business online without working for it.

What matters most is choosing a products that you can promote effectively.

#2. Present to Customers
Putting the product in front of interested customers can be done through a marketing platforms – website, blog or even your social media.

Assuming you want to promote skin care product from an online store on your Facebook page, any of your audiences who has a skin care need at the moment is a potential customer.

All you need to do is to frequently create content related to skin care and recommend the skin care product.

If those who are experiencing skin issue read your post they would reach out and you can send them your unquie link or they click through from your link in post.

From there, the Online store handle everything.

#3. Customer is Satisfied and Buy
Once the customers visit the online store and pays for the product, the Online store process the payment transaction.

And for each customer you send to the online store through your link you get paid.

#4. You Earn
Earning is dependent on various platforms and at different rates. this could range from 30% to 50%

So the more customers you bring the more you earn.

If a customer buys a product 4 times, your commission will be 4X

And with the right approach you can generate multiple commission when you reach a larger Audience. Hence you have to lay a very good foundation for your success in the business.

The same way affiliate marketing is done in Nigeria is how it is done in all other part of the world...

Starting affiliate marketing can be sweeter than you thought.

This model is universal such that you can reach people from different regions of the world without leaving the corners of your room.

Base on personal study, research and implentation here is what works and how you can apply it.

that way, affiliate marketing can be a good business for you too.

Most successful affiliate don’t have any special secrets regarding their success.

What they do they talk about in their posts all the time...

Meanwhile, these steps on how to start affiliate marketing in Nigeria reflect my experience and other people’s insights, strategy and achievements in this business model.

I wasn’t the first person to start this business but anywhere you go to learn how to do affiliate marketing, there are always basic steps you’ll always come across.

And I would be sharing them with you...

#1. Choose your Niche

This different from choose a product, your niche is very lmportant to the affiliate program you join.

It will determines what you focus your attention on and what you want to be known for.

Those who are into health will perform well if their niche focuses on specific aspects of health such as weight loss, skin care, diabetes or blood pressure.

It is unproductive to spread your focus on multiple niches at once.

for someone who is in the health niche, you can simply choose weight loss instead of addressing health as a whole.

When you’re talking about skin care, weight loss, diabetes and blood pressure at the same time, it will leave people confuses about what you do.

This would affect you in the long run.

Been specific on a niche will help you attract leads from people that have the tendency to buy from you and not those who will land on your website and get confused.

They get confused because your content is not specific to them.

Assuming your niche is “Health” and you want to be known for “Weight Loss”.

Any content you writing must be related to weight loss routine, diet, habbits, warm ups and so on.

If you are looking for a Weight Loss Website and you come across two different website one deals with all medical supply while the other focuses on Weight Loss Products of all variety.

Which would you consider choosing?

The weight-focused website would present you with more variety of weight loss products compared to the one with all medical supply.

That’s how you choose between been a specialist website or a general website.

Focusing on a niche will make people interested in your business trust and do business with you.

Benefits of Focusing on one Niche

p.s: this is also applicable to any other businesses


These include:

✓ It helps people identify easily.
✓ it helps maintain good customer relations.
✓ it helps you establish credibility in your niche.
✓ it helps you find the best program and product that supports your niche.
✓ it help you stay on task, if you ever loose focus, remembering what you wanted to be identified for will get back on track.

Ways to Identify a Profitable Niche?

I must inform you that not ever niche is profitable for everybody.

Profitability can be determined by your interest and experience

Or

The level of interest in your niche by people.

To avoid this hurdle, you can assessment your strengths and what others are doing to see what is working.

If people are not showing interested in a particular niche, then it means it would not be profitable.

Hence they wouldn't be a need going for that,

This is the major reason why most affiliates fail to generate income. The issue is not the people you are addressing rather it is the product/niche.

#2. Join a Good Affiliate Program

All over the world there are many affiliate programs you can join to start making money online.

You just have to ensure that you join a programs that is relevant to your Niche.

Examples include: Jumia affiliate, Konga affiliate and many more.

Once you join an affiliate program, You take responsibility for promoting and bringing in customers for the business.

Regardless of platform and product all you need is interested people who would buy.

You can use Social Media Advertising, PPC, Search optimization, email marketing or video marketing strategy to get customer

All this skills you can learn through Training and Tutorial online

a good place to learn the basics is YouTube

#3. Choose your Marketing platforms

As an Affiliate you need a platform to promote the product so you need a blog, website or social media.

If you are active on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, you can recommend the product effectively either by having a rapor or sending them through a Funnel.

This means you can become a successful affiliate marketer with the right approach and platform.

#4. Content Strategy

Content is the most effective marketing strategy used to create and share relevant information about a product.

Content can be in various forms ranging from text, video, audios and info-graphics.

As an Affiliate you can use this to communicate the benefits of a product.

Although you would realize this comes after you have identified your niche, found a products that is relevant to your prospective customers.

share content on the product you are promoting to inform people how that products can solve their problems.

And those who are interested would contact you.

But if nobody is reaching out then

It is either your message is wrong or your content is not relevant to those seeing it.

There is where success lies

#5. Build Audience

It would be difficult to build an audience if your content are not reach the right people

So, all you need to do is create content base on the type of audience you want to reach

Building an audience is not that difficult. Some methods you can use include the following:

✓ Email Marketing
✓ Social Media Marketing (SMM)
✓ Search engine optimization (SEO)

a. Email marketing

as an Affiliate you can use this strategy to keep in touch with your audience and extend the relationships beyond just recommending products.

To build an email audience you would need to ask interested persons to leave their email address for more Quality and targeted update.

if you have dropped your email address at some point in time purchasing an item online and you keep getting email from the vendor then you have experience email marketing.

This strategy can be used easily to build your audience, this way they would always be the first to receive the best updates you have to offer.

which means informing them about affiliate products they may be interested in and thereby making some commission.


b. Social media marketing (SMM)

You can build your own audience as well on social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook

Starting affiliate marketing in Nigeria doesn’t mean you need to build thousand of audience before you can start earning commission.

If you have only one person who is interested in what you do then you can start earning your commission from that purchase of that single person.

As long as the product is relevant to your audience, they will buy from you whenever they need the product.

c. Search engine optimization (SEO)

SEO is the process of making search engines understand what your website or blog is about.

It is to help people identify you when they are looking or search on a particular topic or interest

Example is search for Electronics... the possible results you would see is Jumia, Konga and the likes this is because they have done SEO for their sites.

SEO is about how you can leverage search engines to target your audience without paying for it.

For this to happen, you have to optimize your website and its content.

this is a whole new topic and is an advanced digital marketing strategy in itself

#6. Targeting your Audience

Audience targeting is the process of sharing relevant content with the right audience at the right time.

this doesn't involve spamming your links under every post you come across.

spamming is the process of posting your link on the web repeatedly without a proper message to advertise your product on the internet.

The moment you start doing this is the moment people start loose interested...the idea is not to force but to identify people who are interested and communicate to them through your content.

Let people decide what to do after going through your content.

And that is the good side to it, if your content is targeted to the right people then people who are interested in buying would reach out to you.

#7. Promoting relevant products

As an affiliate your role is to guide your audience on the right approach and offer solutions that help them get good results.

It’s not your responsibility to track sales, provide customer service, fix price or authenticate payments.

The affiliate companies does all that.

Meaning, all you need to do is marketing relevant products.

#8. Repeat steps 4 – 8

Be consistent until you see desirable results. keep repeating the steps and watch out for your growth.

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