Can you do affiliate marketing from your phone? While it’s definitely preferable to work as an affiliate from a laptop or computer, there are some aspects you can do from a mobile phone.
But when it comes to creating landing pages or websites, it’s going to be very tricky trying to do this from a mobile. Even signing up to an affiliate program using a mobile can get fiddly. That’s not to say it’s impossible. But if you’re really serious about doing affiliate marketing properly, you should ideally use a laptop or computer.
That being said, I do use my mobile for some aspects of building my affiliate business. However, that’s after much of the hard work has already been done. Things such as website creation, joining affiliate programs and watching training videos are more difficult to do on a mobile. Plus, mobiles tend to offer less functionality on some websites than on a laptop.
So what aspects can be done on a mobile, and what’s completely out of the question?
Affiliate Marketing From Your Phone
To get started with affiliate marketing you’ll need to join an affiliate program and get your unique affiliate link. Once you have it, you can paste it in your social media profiles, and use various strategies to drive targeted traffic to it. Depending on the strategy you choose, this can be more or less difficult using a mobile phone. For example, I use Quora.com to answer specific questions on my mobile phone when I’m away from the computer. I link back to my blog posts on this site. See also affiliate marketing on Quora.com.
While the answering of questions can be done on a mobile phone, it’s more constrictive doing so. It’s much easier and quicker to answer 20 or so questions a day using Quora.com on a laptop keyboard than using my I-phone. But I still do it for convenience when I don’t want to be on the laptop.
I can do this partly because I’ve also built a lot of content on this website too. I simply wouldn’t have been able to write these blog posts from a mobile phone – it’s far too fiddly. However, you can also use Quora without linking out. Just use your affiliate link in your Quora’s bio, and lead people to it by answering relevant questions in your niche.
Affiliate Marketing On Your Phone – Facebook
Another platform which can be used for affiliate marketing is Facebook. Many Facebook users put their affiliate links on their main profile page. Then they find traffic by looking for groups in their niche and interact with people in the groups. Over time, people will find your profile and naturally browse through it if they are interested in what you have to offer. See also unpaid social media marketing.
This little strategy can work wonders if you get clear on your profile messaging; find a targeted audience in various Facebook groups, and use your mobile to interact with other members in the group, leading them back to your profile.
Again setting up your Facebook profile to showcase your affiliate link and marketing message is much easier on a laptop. With a mobile phone your profile settings options are more difficult to access and change.
Affiliate Marketing On Your Phone – Adwords
Google Adwords have an app which you can access on a mobile phone. I have the app too but only really use it to check on ad performance. I wouldn’t use the app itself from a phone to set up an advertising campaign because it’s far too fiddly and there’s less functionality on the mobile app.
So if you’re considering running an paid advertising campaign, I would definitely recommend doing so from a laptop first, and using your mobile phone only as a reference point.
Summary
There’s many aspects of affiliate marketing which you can do on your phone, however, there’s things you simply can’t do on your phone properly. Things like setting up landing pages, using drag and drop software on websites and building advertising campaigns will be incredibly awkward on a mobile. Going through training modules on a phone too will brings problems with it, or downloading files.
If you’re determined to work solely on a mobile phone, no one can stop you! But you’re doing yourself a massive disservice if you limit yourself to using only a mobile. One of the main prerequisites for building an online business is a laptop and internet connection. So if you don’t have both of these you’re already making life harder! Affiliate marketing is tough anyway, so why make your life more difficult?
The same is true of a website. While you can do affiliate marketing without a website, the reason to build a website is to make things easier.
No Laptop Solutions
Once you have your affiliate link you can advertise in a variety of ways as an affiliate. If you can’t access a laptop your best bet is to find a method of advertising your link which doesn’t require much technical setup, or keyboard time.
There’s a couple of methods which I’ve mentioned in this article already which are suitable, using Facebook or Quora.com. See also 22 ways to promote affiliate products.
Your main task as an affiliate is to join an affiliate program, and get your affiliate link. Then, put that link in front of the right targeted audience who will want to buy it.
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