Start Affiliate Marketing as a Beginner in Nigeria/Africa

 

Affiliate Marketing? Is it really a thing, and can you make money off it? Well, as Victory Akpos in a CasterlyLand.com article puts it, Affiliate Marketing can be the easiest way to make money online if you know how to go about it.

There is absolutely no doubts about that because an affiliate marketing statistics by 99firms.com showed that the majority of affiliate marketers (42.17% of them) prefer to promote between 1–10 products. 23.18% of them like to promote 11–20 products, while 14.19% would promote 21–50 products. Only 7.53% of affiliate marketers like to promote over 300 products.

So, in this guide, you will discover how to start affiliate marketing and make money as a Beginner in Nigeria & Africa.   

 

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a commission based digital marketing strategy which allows affiliate marketers to promote and sell products or services of merchants (advertiser) through online on the basis of commission – Reddit.com

As defined by Isuamfon Offiong of IsuaWealthyPlace.com, affiliate marketing is getting commissions for recommending products and services to other people.

 

How to Become an Affiliate Marketing in Nigeria/Africa

Step 1. Choose an Affiliate Network

The very first step is choosing an Affiliate Network to use.

As a Nigerian, there are a lot of places to start with. You have Clickbank, Warrior Plus, Jzvoo and other Clickbank alternatives for Nigerians.

Talking about Commission Junction, this is a popular site like Clickbank where millions of customers are shopping regularly. On the site, over 50 thousand active marketers are working around the clock to make money in real-time.

If you are a Nigerian, then I recommend you start with Expertnaire.com. Expertnaire is a Nigerian version of Clickbank and they’ve got great digital products wherefore you can promote and make money. Here is Expertnaire.com review (Video) for more information.

 

Step 2. Choose an Affiliate Product

The next thing after choosing an affiliate product is choosing a good product to promote to your audience.

Before you go for a product, you want to make sure that the product will offer good value to your customers. More so, the sales page – the page that you land on when you click your affiliate link should be clean and inviting.

 

Step 3. Build a Landing page

After choosing a product, you need to build a page called landing page where your visitors will land and read what you’re promoting.

On this page, you can either collect their emails or send them directly to the product you’re promoting.

 

How to create a landing page.

There are many ways to doing this. You can either get a page builder like Builderall or Clickfunnels and build a landing page or get it done for free with GetResponse.

Another option apart from ready-made landing pages is using your blog or website to create landing pages. For instance, you can get a hosting plan with a free domain name and start a website. When done you use a tool like Elementor and design the page and start driving traffic to the site.

 

Step 4. Drive Traffic to the Landing Page

After building your landing page, go ahead and drive traffic to page. Traffic can come from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other places you have social presence.

 

Step 5. Make your first sale

You are set to make your first sell when you drive traffic to the landing opaque you’re promoting the product.

And if you opted to collect your visitors emails, then you can be sure to send them emails till you make your first sale which will lead to the 10^th, 20^th, and 50^th sales.

That is a summary to starting affiliate marketing as a Beginner.

 

Additionally, you can podcast about it if only you have any established podcasting platforms. 

Ref: how to start affiliate and make money in Nigeria  |  Online Course platforms.

 
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash