“How can I earn from digital marketing?”, you might ask! There’s many ways to earn from digital marketing.
If you already have digital marketing skills, you can sell your time (in a job), you can build a digital marketing agency (your own business), or you can use those skills to promote affiliate products, or other people’s businesses.
Digital marketing skills are fast becoming the most lucrative skills around today. Nearly every business wants to learn how to promote themselves better online. As a digital marketer, there’s many avenues you can take.
If you don’t yet have digital marketing skills, you can learn them and use them to build an online business using other people’s products and services (affiliate marketing). Start here.
How Can I Earn From Digital Marketing?
So, how can I earn from digital marketing? Here’s a break down of the most common ways:
- Sell your time – in a job as a digital marketing “expert”
- Build a business of your own selling yours and/or other people’s marketing skills – a digital marketing agency.
- Use your skills to sell other people’s products and services online – affiliate marketing.
- Approach businesses directly and offer to help them with their marketing.
Digital marketers use a number of strategies to sell products or services online. Here’s a few of the methods they use:
- Paid marketing platforms – pay per click marketing platforms such as Google Adwords, Facebook, YouTube etc. let you run adverts and send traffic (visitors) to websites.
- Organic marketing methods & SEO (search engine optimisation) – blogging, social media marketing and other organic methods use content generation to build an online presence. See how to increase organic traffic to your blog.
- Building a following online through social media – some digital marketers use Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms to drive traffic and make sales. See also unpaid social media marketing.
Don’t Know How To Market Online?
Perhaps, like many people you don’t have any digital marketing skills? If this is the case you can learn. The best way to learn digital marketing skills is through joining an affiliate program which offers training and has products for you to sell. This way you can earn while you learn and you don’t have to think about products.
In the SFM Digital Business system you can access over 10,000 courses and a business system which does the selling. You can also access a community of online entrepreneur and get the help you need to become successful online. Click on the image below for more information.
Digital Marketing & Affiliate Marketing
Digital marketing refers to any kind of online marketing or advertising. Affiliate marketing on the other hand is referral marketing. With affiliate marketing you get paid for referring people to other people’s products and services online. If you’re successful at this, and refer people to products which sell, you get paid on a performance basis.
This is one of the most accessible ways to earn through using digital marketing. You can even do it without any services or products of your own. Affiliates are everywhere online. You’ve probably bought something through someone’s affiliate link already, especially if you shop online a lot.
An affiliate basically recommends products and services through their own advertising strategies. Affiliates use content marketing (e.g. blogging and v’logging), email marketing and paid advertising.
They might also use a number of other strategies to get their message in front of an audience and lead them to an affiliate product. Since affiliates only get paid when something sells, it’s a very economical way for product owners to promote their products online. Since they don’t have to pay anyone unless they make a sale!
How To Earn From Digital Marketing – Summary
There’s many ways to earn from digital marketing and the value of digital marketing skill is rapidly growing. Here’s a few of the strategies you can use if you already have some marketing skills:
- Sell your time in a job – SEO (search engine optimisation) skills, PPC (pay per click and other marketing skills are in demand.
- Build a marketing agency – use other skilled people and/or your own skill base to build a business which helps businesses grow their online presence
- Approach businesses directly and offer to help them promote their products/services using your skill set
- Use affiliate products – promote other people’s products and services using online marketing strategies.
If you want to learn how to sell products and services online, access a free video series here which explains the various business models available, even if you have no previous experience.