Excited to Join – Looking for Guidance on Getting Started in Affiliate Marketing

[TrevorB]

Hi everyone,

I’ve just joined the forum to learn more about affiliate marketing and how to make the most of it. Any help, advice, or pointers in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.

I currently run a company in a niche that can be tricky with Google and Meta’s advertising policies, and I’m finding it harder to rely on traditional paid ads. So, I figured it’s time to roll up my sleeves and explore other ways to grow, especially through affiliate marketing.


Looking forward to connecting and learning from the community here.

 

[T J Tutor]

Welcome to AffiliateFix!

It is becoming increasingly difficult for many of the grey area niches to get any traffic on those platforms. It's important to understand these platforms are spending many millions of dollars to enforce their respective policies and we either have to focus on all white hat marketing or dig in and find alternatives for grey hat traffic. Blackhat has become incredibly expensive and very hit and miss.

The affiliate industry is alive, well, and growing at exponential rates. It's a very viable and productive segment of marketing, but it is shaping up to be far more professional and is becoming more regulated year after year. Therefore, the affiliates you recruit for your company need to vetted.

 

[TrevorB]

Welcome to AffiliateFix!

It is becoming increasingly difficult for many of the grey area niches to get any traffic on those platforms. It's important to understand these platforms are spending many millions of dollars to enforce their respective policies and we either have to focus on all white hat marketing or dig in and find alternatives for grey hat traffic. Blackhat has become incredibly expensive and very hit and miss.

The affiliate industry is alive, well, and growing at exponential rates. It's a very viable and productive segment of marketing, but it is shaping up to be far more professional and is becoming more regulated year after year. Therefore, the affiliates you recruit for your company need to vetted.

Thank you TJ

I am just trying to get used to the layout of the site today, not really used a forum style site before, and its been a tad confusing if im honest but I will get there (in for the long haul), I think though I am on the right track, I have registered my company as a resource and awaiting its approval (hopefully) . I have seen and been through the start here guides although they seem to be more for the other side of the fence but where interesting. I have seen you mention vetting affiliates a few times today in posts I have read here and there on the site, is there any guides on that tucked away here and as someone that wants to run affiliate programs and hire affiliates where should i head to next on the site and read up on.

 

[azgold]

Welcome to AffiliateFix!

I have seen you mention vetting affiliates a few times today in posts I have read here and there on the site, is there any guides on that tucked away here and as someone that wants to run affiliate programs and hire affiliates where should i head to next on the site and read up on.

TJ and Graybeard have offered advice (sometimes network reps, too) to others looking for affiliates. i.e. (not specific to any niche)

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We don't have a guide for recruiting affiliates, per se but those will hopefully get you started.

Enjoy the forums and don't hesitate to start a thread and let us know whenever you have a question.

 

[T J Tutor]

any guides on that tucked away here

I haven't personally authored any extensive content on affiliate recruiting here. Some of the more prolific marketers out there have published some in the past, but none are recent. We've discussed this at length in some of the workshops I annually attend, but they have mostly fallen on deaf ears. The way affiliate managers are hired and trained these days creates a revolving door on the positions. The majority of these newer companies seem to think that loading up affiliates at any cost is more important than both training affiliates and properly training affiliate managers to take a solid and involved position with their affiliates. Creating the revolving door with affiliate managers trickles down to creating a revolving door with affiliates.

The other side of the coin is that the older and well established affiliate managers are well embedded in their roles and positions because they come from an era when properly training affiliate managers and subsequently properly training their affiliates helped to build those well established and still growing massive companies.

I have wanted to publish all of my notes on affiliate management training, and affiliate training, for many years now. I just don't see the benefit these days because the culture at the moment is not open to following through with the proven and well established methodologies.

 

[azgold]

A good affiliate manager is like gold! I believe having a good one helps enormously with affiliate retention.

We have some reps here that I think fall into that category but a lot sure have come and gone from the networks over recent years.

 

[xlovecash]

I haven't personally authored any extensive content on affiliate recruiting here. Some of the more prolific marketers out there have published some in the past, but none are recent. We've discussed this at length in some of the workshops I annually attend, but they have mostly fallen on deaf ears. The way affiliate managers are hired and trained these days creates a revolving door on the positions. The majority of these newer companies seem to think that loading up affiliates at any cost is more important than both training affiliates and properly training affiliate managers to take a solid and involved position with their affiliates. Creating the revolving door with affiliate managers trickles down to creating a revolving door with affiliates.

The other side of the coin is that the older and well established affiliate managers are well embedded in their roles and positions because they come from an era when properly training affiliate managers and subsequently properly training their affiliates helped to build those well established and still growing massive companies.

I have wanted to publish all of my notes on affiliate management training, and affiliate training, for many years now. I just don't see the benefit these days because the culture at the moment is not open to following through with the proven and well established methodologies.

There is still value 3% will catch what you are throwing out.

 

[T J Tutor]

There is still value 3% will catch what you are throwing out.

I have no idea what that means.