How to Start a WordPress Blog [2024] – A Step-by-Step Guide



Have you heard about this "make money online" thing and wanted to start a WordPress blog to get in the action? Or, maybe you'd like to share your personal experiences. Perhaps, it's building a blog for your company or freelance portfolio? All great options -- all doable with a WordPress blog. WordPress is the most popular content management system. Nearly 75 million sites use the platform for their personal blogs, business websites, and e-commerce stores. The platform is supported by thousands of developers offering as many WordPress themes and plugins. Chances are… If you want to start a blog in...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday: An Affiliate Guide



Online commerce during Black Friday was projected at $3.34 billion according to Adobe Digital. Cyber Monday, in contrast, had topped $3.45 billion. These two retail holidays attribute to nearly 1/3rd of the total retail spend throughout the year. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are when most individuals are doing their holiday shopping meaning it’s one of the most important sales periods for an affiliate marketer. Here’s how to make major affiliate commissions during these retail holidays. (more…)

Best Site Building & Design Tools for Affiliate Marketing



The website. Where would affiliate marketing be without one? Today, you can build an affiliate business without the use of one (mainly relying on email and social) but considering how easy they’re to build with the use of web design tools… why wouldn’t you? The website offers too many benefits to forgo: Building credibility and authority through content Offering products & services via affiliate links Collecting data about your visitors with analytics Centralizing community interaction through forums It really is a “base” of operations. For the longest time, site development was done by professionals. They would command top dollar for...

Best Email Marketing Tools for Affiliate Marketing



Ah, email marketing tools. What would we do without them? Email marketing is the bread and butter of affiliate marketing. With email marketing, you gain the benefit of reaching your core audience virtually free. Each point of contact can be used to reaffirm your authority while presenting an opportunity to create a sale. You could technically conduct your email marketing with your normal email account. Whether you want to curate that list, spend hours and hours modifying the emails, and potentially getting your account flagged as spam is your choice. The smart option is to use an email marketing tool....

Best PPC Advertising Tools for Affiliate Marketing



You’ve got a great offer – one you can back. But: Despite you’re having trouble creating those all-important sales. What gives! The affiliate marketing space is saturated. It’s a blessing and a curse because it reaffirms your thoughts about the offer being profitable (why else would people put their time & effort?) but means there’s a lot of competition. These others often take the same approach: Create a site Publish content (reviews) Build links Share on social A good majority will leave it at that but this is where you have an edge & opportunity. With a touch of PPC...