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How to Make Money While You Sleep With Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is about making money. Gobs of money. Money for doing nothing.

At least that’s what a quick Google search would have you believe, but as usual, the truth is a little more complex than that.

Yes, you can make money through affiliate marketing. Good money. And, yes, you can even make money while you sleep.

In this post, we’re going to teach you how to generate passive income with successful affiliate marketing. If you’re brand new to it, this post will help you get started.

If you’re already into affiliate marketing, you’ll probably still find something in here you haven’t thought of before.

Before we get in too deep, let’s start with a very brief definition.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is when an online retailer pays you a commission for traffic or sales generated from your referrals.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

Affiliate marketing is a simple 3-step process:

1-You recommend a product or service to your followers.

2-Your followers purchase the product or service using your affiliate link.

3-You get paid a commission for the sales made using your affiliate link.

Getting Started With Affiliate Marketing
Now you know the basic definition of affiliate marketing and how the process works, so let’s talk about how to get started.

Many would-be affiliate marketers don’t take the time to plan and instead sign up for every affiliate marketing network or affiliate marketing program they can find.

They end up overwhelmed and overloaded.

Don’t be like them.

Take your time and work through in steps if you want to set yourself up for success. Complete the first 4 steps before you even consider promoting a single product.

1-Find Your Niche

Do you say “nitch” or “neesh?”

Either way you pronounce it, choosing a niche will give focus to your business and help you with content. It’ll also make it easier to create targeted marketing campaigns.

For some people, choosing their niche is the hardest part of starting their own business, but it doesn’t have to be that way. To choose your niche, it just takes asking a few questions:

2-What am I passionate about? 

 Typically, the things we’re passionate about are things we’re also already knowledgeable about, which makes it much easier to create content.

3-Is this topic big enough? 

Is there enough to the topic to create up to 100 blog posts? If not, you may struggle with search engine optimization or have trouble developing authority.

4-Is the niche oversaturated?

 Is there room for another affiliate in the niche? Before jumping into an overly popular niche and trying to compete with folks who’ve been around for a while, maybe give another niche a try.

5-Is there money in this niche? 

Money isn’t everything, to be sure. If you’re interested in a couple of topics and one is a moneymaker, but one isn’t… choose the moneymaker.
You can check out a niche on an affiliate retailer like ClickBank to see if it’s worth putting time into it.



To do this, go to the ClickBank site and click on Affiliate Marketplace:

From there you’ll see categories in red on the

Clicking on one of the categories will bring up a page with filters on the left and the different products that you could sell for your niche on the right:

What you’re looking for is products that have a high Gravity score, decent average income per sale, and that would fit in naturally with your content. If you’re finding plenty of products you would be able to write about, you’ve found a profitable niche!