To be successful in affiliate marketing, you must build a platform that gives you a means of communicating with potential customers.
In this book, I will hold your hand through the process of developing and building your platform, which will be the right way for growing your audience and promoting products to them.
Building your platform is must for every affiliate marketer. Having a platform is just like to have an actual shop Home Base for establishing your business and audience attraction.
Why Do You Need Platform for your affiliate business?
Whatever niche that you pick, make sure you'll stick with it. You'll need to consistently create content and be involved in the niche and its community.
1. The platform can control your brand and Do not let other parties take it away your customer!
2. The platform will make people trust on you and build-up your reputation.
3. Having a platform is building a path to success, where by you can generate more customer coming in to visit and more revenue will be generated once you have a strong foundation.
There are a lot of platform out there, but here are few that I recommended for you to utilized:
Four Keys Step in Platform Building
1. To Create a Brand for your affiliate business
Identify what kind of brand that you are going to Build?
• Personal Brand - Using your own name as a brand
• Business Brand – Find a unique business name
2. Get a Domain Name & Web-Hosting
• Domain Name: Branded, Personal, or Descriptive (SEO)?
(Recommended: GoDaddy and Namecheap)
• Web-Hosting: Single domain Vs multiple domains
(Recommended hosting: HostGater & BlueHost, GoDaddy (Not
recommended for hosting)
3. Create Your Blog:
• The only choice is "WordPress" for Self-Hosted.
• Get a unique theme are eleganthemes, woothemes & studiopress
4. Build a List (from the start): The Money is in the List
• Aweber
• GetResponse
• iContact
Important Tips
You can choose your own web-hosting and web design themes from several different providers on the internet.
To prevent anything happen in future and I would not recommend you using free web-hosting solutions. It was because you are unable to access some functions on the website and very high chances for you to lose what you've built at any time. The right thing that you should do is invest a relatively small amount of money to use a paid web-hosting service.