Affiliate tips

Shawn Collins is an affiliate marketer who has been in business since 1997! He is a co-founder of the Affiliate Summit and co-editor-in-chief of FeedFront Magazine. I was reading his blog Affiliate Tip and found som really good advices for affiliate newbies.

Shawn Collins

Here is what Shawn would do if he was starting up an affiliate right know with his experience:

1. You need a passion for something.
2. Get a hosting plan with several domain names, lots of bandwidth and automated wordpress installs.
3. Get an Aweber account (that is very popular mailing service).
4. Find 2-3 things you are passionate about.
5. Prepare a copy.
6. Register a domain name.
7. Put up your blog.
8. Write in your own voice.
9. Monetize after 5-10 posts
10. Find relevant merchants and put up 1-2 banners and some text links (include affiliate links in your blog posts).
11. TEST, TEST, TEST which are doing best!
12. Start using Aweber: create an email follow-up series (7 steps to…, or use your blog posts as newsletter content)
13. Enable RSS by email
14. Give a couple of months to build traffic (3-4), than recheck.