Nothing in this world can tell you that but if you do things right you can start making money real fast
There are 6 pillars to affiliate marketing
1 - Digital Marketing - it is important for one to have basic digital marketing skills to excel in affiliate marketing.
2 - The art of getting traffic - customers in online world are known as traffic it is very easy to make a website or to start an online business as compare to orthodox ones or physical stores, but the main challenge is to bring traffic, this is where most of the people fail, because they don’t know the art of generating traffic for your product and services. Traffic is like oxygen to body without it the whole business is dead.
3 - Media buying - one needs to master the art of media buying like Facebook ads, google Adwords, native ads etc, they can only be done with trying and testing. If you master this the money is yours, understand there is no exact blueprint for ads the only way you can learn is by trying and testing.
4 - Tools - You need tools like websites, email clients , sale funnels , high converting landing pages , bridge pages , chatbots , email auto responders etc to generate leads and automation plus to run campaigns.
5 - The perfect product - You need the right product to market , finding the right product is really important you need to see if it is in demand, checking reviews for the product, competition and their price points etc. If you won’t research or if you aren’t confident about your product you will never be able to market it right.
6 - The perfect commission structure - business is all about numbers if you don’t do it right Ull run into losses. For eg - a lot of people fancy about amazon affiliate prog just because it is free and one of the biggest brand but the commission structure of amazon is 2–7% and the payouts come after 45 days and I never recommend it for beginners as you need skills to promote amazon products, but 2–7% that’s it does it deserve all the hard work ? Payouts after 45 days ? Decision has to be yours.
If you master these 6 skills it will be a key to goldmine, a successful affiliate will always