Affiliate marketing - work your way up the marketing ladder

When you are new to affiliating there is always a million and one question on how to do it, where to do it, how to promote, when is the right time for investment, do i need a website, and so on. I personally don't have enormous experience behind me yet, but the things i go through in my path are a good basis to help someone who, like me, is on the beginning of the marketing journey. So these are my experiences and recommendations on how to get started without a headache.

1. I would start with simple free adds. There are a lot of sites that you can use for posting absolutely free adds of products. While they are spinning and attracting some potential costumers already creating some traffic, use the time to concentrate on the next step, which in my opinion are the social networks.

2. Social networks are always present and you certainly have access to one or more of them (Facebook, Tweeter, Instagram, Quora, LinkedIn, etc. ). You can create products page on Facebook for example, and then when you post a new free add just attache the link to it. You can promote your free adds to any of these networks and widen the search span.

3. With free adds still going (don't forget to renew them or post more of them), and social networks buzzing, you can start thinking about a free blog. You can create it in a matter of ours. I mean the looks, the structure, the idea... The content you have to think about a little because there are many different approaches and it all depends on your affinities. When you create your first posts, so not just one article but several, you can start redirecting all that startup traffic from previous two steps to it. Just add links and product reviews inside articles, post some banners and you are good to go. Also, all the future free adds and social network posts have to include your blog link so that you boost everything.

4. The last step, with business well developing and growing would be a website. And by that time you will have a clear concept and idea in your head about what it should look like and how would it benefit you. Just to create a website page to have something and not to think it through is just a premature eagerness. Website is not easy to maintain, has to reflect a certain business level and status that you represent, and my advice is not to get hasty with creating one. When you start thinking about a serious website, take a step back and reassess all three previous steps and think about doing them all over again but in payed version. So payed adds, payed social network space and promotions, paid traffic to a blog.

So to summarize, think it through and don't make something just to have it, but make a good plan and stick to it. It is easier to adjust a good plan than to correct a bad one.