I know I said I was going to start my affiliated marketing career a while back but hey, I procrastinated a little more than I should have. I don’t know why I procrastinated as much as I did but I finally took the dive into the affiliated marketing waters with the big sharks fishes. Now, let’s see how it goes.

Okay, so technically, I did do some affiliated marketing before as I used this blog as a landing page and I had quite a bunch of people who were willing to sign up through my affiliated links – whatever it was. Though, the links were all related to my niche like paid review sites, affiliate companies, etc so my readers were kind enough to sign up through my referrals.

But that just wasn’t enough because my blog isn’t as big as I want it to be. And that’s fine with me; I don’t need thousands of people following me and all that extra exposure of fame. I rather be the director in this movie than the actor, the man simply behind the scenes, the one who makes tons of money but no one really knows who he is.

And so I started…

So, I officially created my first landing page. It’s pretty basic and the idea actually came from Zac Johnson, he created a landing page template for his readers. Yes, I downloaded it too but instead of using his, I took his example and the information he supplied and did some research of my own.

With the information and landing page example, I found lots and lots of other landing pages throughout my research. I decided to do a mixture of all those landing pages into one and that’s how I begun my affiliated marketing campaign. And I actually didn’t go with the campaign he suggested because I figured all of his 3,000+ RSS Feed subscribers would potentially try the same thing.

Lots of competition = not a good chance for me which = high CPC costs if I did PPC advertising for that specific campaign.

Now, I know this is not going to be easy because I will be testing out a few different methods (all legit ways) which will also include PPC advertising, but I’m going to hold off on that for a little bit; especially since I’m a noob, I’m going to be doing a lot of trial-and-error.

Out of all the reading, researching, testing that I have done so far, the best way is to be creative. Now, all the super affiliates like Zac Johnson, Paul of Uberaffiliate, Jonathon Volk, etc mainly use PPC advertising and spend thousands on it. That is probably the quickest and easiest way, but if you don’t have that type of money to spend, then this is where your creativity takes place.

You want to utilize all the sources you can possibly use. Yes, it’s going to be harder. And yes, it’s going to take more time and effort. But if you don’t have a lot of money to spend and you want to get into affiliated marketing, then I guess you really have no choice, huh?

Instead of cramming all that information in this one post, I’ll stretch out what I have tested. I mean, I’m a creative person so I’ll find ways.

Of course around the same time I begun my affiliate marketing campaign, I have also seen quite a bunch of bloggers like Tyler Cruz, Gyutae of Winningtheweb, Jason of the Theuniversitykid (he hit his first $1,000/day), etc taking on the affiliated marketing recently (or earlier before but finally mentioned it on their blog) and I wish them all luck, of course, not too much luck if they’re going to be running the same campaigns as me.