How to Start Your Career As An Affiliate Marketer in Nigeria

In Nigeria today, everyone is trying to go digital so as to get a befitting and sustaining income.

One of the skills people are running to presently is the affiliate marketing business. Thousands of Nigerians are out there making their cool cash legally on daily basis from affiliate marketing.

 The amazing thing is that anybody can get engaged into affiliate marketing if you're willing to learn.

You can be an affiliate marketer if you truly want to. This is also regardless of your education, financial status, background, affiliate marketing is a business to engage in.

Liberate yourself, change your financial status by learning affiliate marketing, you can earn a six-figure income using affiliate marketing, but it requires a process of learning.

You can only be an affiliate marketer in Nigeria if you're only willing to learn and to consistently learn

Who is an Affiliate Marketer?

Many people do not really know who an affiliate marketer is, many just assume they're some set of people who sell 72IG course. Affiliate marketing is more than that.

An affiliate marketer is someone who promote a product or service on behalf of the company by making use of links on blogs, applications, website or social media platforms and in turn receives commission on each sale. He does this by the use of affiliate links, for every conversion, he or she is compensated by the company he or she is working for.

 An affiliate marketer is also called a performance marketer

Before you start your journey as an affiliate marketer you must do and know these basic things 

Make your research about affiliate  marketing.

  Avoid making  unnecessary errors, your errors might lead to your customers not trusting you again.

Learn the basics of content marketing 

Set out clear cut goals

 Search for opportunities

 Go for your own highly rewarding niche

If possible, get someone that will mentor you.

Here are some basic step by step procedure you need in following order to become an affiliate marketer in Nigeria.

1. Choose your preferred platform

There are several platforms online for you to select from, so there is a need for you to properly understand how each of them works in order to select the right platform, so that you can advertise your product and services. You can also make use of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram YouTube channels and lots more.

But one of the most advisable thing to do as regards affiliate marketing is to create a blog, but the issue of creating a blog is how far you can drive sufficient traffic to it because more traffic increases your chances of conversions.

An advantage social media has is that it is easy for people to come across your affiliate links online especially if you have a strong online community.

2. Choose the right niche

If you want to be successful as an affiliate marketer, you need to choose the right niche that attract better customers and create a cult for that category of affiliate marketing you're interested in. You cannot afford the mistake of going for the wrong niche.

It's also advisable to go for niches that do not have much competitions, go for the ones you can easily create content around it.

There are so many niches out there make sure you are not competing with well-established brands.

Example of niche includes  finance, health, technology, information , cryptocurrency NFTs, digital marketing, religion and so many others

3. Join high paying affiliate Programs

To earn money as an affiliate marketer, you need to select the right programs that go well with your niche. There are many of them but ensure the product you are promoting are trusted and great for the use of your customers, you can also try them out before you market them.

 We have high and low paying affiliate programs.

Below are some great affiliate marketing programs for you in Nigeria.

• Amazon affiliate marketing
• Jumia affiliate marketing
• PayPorte affiliate
• Konga affiliate
• Clickbank
• Cowrywise
• Piggyvest
• Iluno
• Shopify
• Binance

4. Generate content for the product you are trying to market.

What will make people click on the link is if it has a convincing content that go with it. If you are a copywriter, this would be a great advantage for you. Make the content engaging that your customers feel so inclined to get the particular product or service.

You can create content on reviews, guides tutorials, listicles, product comparisons in order to market a particular product and service

5. Generate Traffic

If you have a website or a landing page, ensure that you put necessary measures in place to generate heavy traffic. The simple rule in any digtial or online business is that the more traffic you generate the more the chances of people clicking on your affiliate links. Having a site without traffic is of no use, it's almost the same thing as having no website at all. So ensure that you generate sufficient traffic to your website. You can run ads but it's not too advisable, you can generate traffic via your email list, you can also generate more traffic by posting your site's link on your social media platforms.

 

6. Build Authority in your niche 

If your customers know that you know so much about the things you talk about, they will definitely trust you enough to check out any affiliate link you are actually giving to them.

 So be consistent in your niche, make sure you give them reliable and trustworthy content, make them trust you and by the time they see any affiliate link from you, they are sure that they are in the right place and they will surely click on it.

7. Build a Strong Social Media Audience

With many users across your social media platforms,  you can actually reach out to millions of people but this is dependent on your audience base on social media platforms.

  The best way to reach more people in this age is through social media, so develop your fans base, reach more people and grow your social media account

Affiliate marketing pays a lot in Nigeria only if you are dedicated and committed to it. At first it might look a bit rough but with time, it gets better.