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Affiliate, Beginners, Marketing, Opportunity

Interested in Affiliate Marketing?

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Why did you consider affiliate marketing? To make money, right? Well there’s a lot more to it than that. Affiliate programs and affiliate marketing can help to give you freedom, extra income and a way to take ownership of your future. We break down three reasons affiliate marketing might be right for you.

Freedom

Affiliate programs, especially those available online like GDI give you freedom that you just can’t get from your 9-5 job. Affiliate programs allow you to work and network at times that work for you. Whether you have a few extra hours a week or are looking to put full time effort into an affiliate program, you can find one that works for you. There also no set time frame that you must work on building your team. So even if you’re a night owl or a morning person, you will be able to connect with other affiliates like you and work on your own schedule.

Security

If you’re saving for your future or just a rainy day, working to make extra money with an affiliate program can ideally help to provide some financial security. While there are no guarantees to how much money you will make with a program, hard work with the right affiliate opportunity offering can pay off. Building income with an affiliate program outside of your full time job can help to provide security and savings for the future.

Ownership

While affiliate programs are part of a larger company, they allow you a unique opportunity at ownership of something. You decide how much money you make and how much to work with an affiliate program, essentially giving you ownership. Affiliate programs let you make the marketing decisions, hours and set the goals each day, week, month and year. Where else will you find freedom, security and ownership without a big investment?

To learn how to know which affiliate program is right for you, check out this post.

Did we miss a reason to try affiliate marketing? Leave it in the comments below!

Advice, Affiliate, Opportunity

Choosing the Right Affiliate Program

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The idea of any affiliate program is to create income while helping others and building a business. Beyond that, affiliate programs can get a little different—some may require you to buy products up front, others require you to go door to door with a catalog. The important thing is to choose that affiliate program that will work the best for you. Below are some helpful criteria to help you pick the right affiliate program.

Time

Time is an important consideration. How much time do you have to devote to an affiliate program? An hour a week or several a day? Times is a huge factor in success with affiliate marketing and selecting the program that works best with the time you have can be a key creating income.

Expense

Unlike GDI, many affiliate programs have upfront costs to join, buy products and more. Decide what you are willing to spend to build you business up front and find a well received affiliate program that can be successful within that budget.

Products

What is it that you will be marketing? Do you have a passion for a product of just looking for anything? Though not required, having some interest marketing can be helpful to your success. Getting excited about GDI’s personalized domain names can help spread the passion to others.

Support

What kind of support does the company who offers the affiliate program have for you? Do you have to be on hold for hours just to get a question answered, or is there a sponsor ready and waiting to help you. Also consider other forms of support like social media, videos, and forums that can help you out.

Beginners, Marketing, Opportunity, Q&A

FAQ: Products and Services or the Income Opportunity?

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A question we often hear at GDI is “What should I market, the product or the opportunity?” The short answer is that this is something you have to decide for yourself. But top help you decide we’ve included some tips below.

How well do you understand GDI’s product and services?

All of our members should understand the website hosting and email that GDI offers and better yet take advantage of it. But since we know this may not be the case for everyone, decide where you fall. Do you use a replicated site and have no interest in hosting? Well then you are someone who should be advertising the opportunity. It doesn’t make sense to try to explain and sell someone on something you aren’t using yourself.

If you are someone who takes advantage of GDI website hosting and know every in and out of the product, you are someone who should be selling the product. If you love the product people will be able to see that and want to get on board with it.

What kind of people do you work best with?

Do you work best with people who get really excited about a new idea or offering, or do you prefer to work with people who take a more analytical approach. A lot of this can be based on your own experience and is in no way a scientific fact, but try to take personality types into account when trying to get someone into your downline.

Someone who is very excitable and good at getting others excited, could be very good at selling the opportunity, and this is someone you may want to work with if you feel the same. Someone who takes a more calculated look at things may need a little more of a push could really benefit from being sold the product and explained the virtues of it in combination with the opportunity. Try to figure out the kind of people you want in your downline and it will help you decide what you should be selling.

What is your selling style?

Your selling style is a combination of the answers to the two questions. Try to mix your personality with what you know and you will be able to see what you are better at selling.

How about both?

You can follow the steps above to stick with selling either the product or the opportunity, or you could do both. Don’t limit yourself on only trying to sell one aspect of GDI, you have multiple selling points at your finger tips, so use this to your advantage. Get educated on the product, refine your pitch and decide what you want to sell on a person to person basis.