You don’t need to spend the day looking for whom to buy and purchase a specific product you’re promoting before you start earning money.
Affiliate marketing is a program built for online marketers who wish to make money online from their comfort zone. You just take up the work of helping others get their product sold out by promoting it and you earn your percentage attached.
One fascinating thing about all this, is you do it whenever, wherever, and maybe however you want it (without going against Terms and Conditions).
Affiliate marketing, being one of the biggest online businesses in Nigeria allows you to make great cash from the various affiliate programs available in the country.
In this post, I’ll bring to spotlight the top yet available affiliate programs that are Nigeria-friendly, how to get started with each of them, and also ways to easily promote products for better results.
The good news is you are not limited to how much you can make with this kind of marketing even in Nigeria.
Let's get started already, shall we?
What is Affiliate Marketing?
This has to do with sending your traffic to
someone else’s site to buy their products or services. You earn a percentage
(what is called an affiliate sales commission) for every successful sale made
via your link.
As I earlier said, you can do it whenever, wherever, and maybe however you want it (without going against Terms and Conditions) and with the right methods of promotion, you are on your way to making great earnings.
The fact that you can do this business with even your mobile phone, is just amazing.
Top Affiliate Marketing Programs in Nigeria
I at this point present to you the top affiliate programs in
Nigeria:
1. Konga Affiliate
Program
Konga pays well and their commission model is awesome, they
pay up to 9% commission on their products.
The program is powered by Konga Affiliate Pro, the leading
affiliate tracking software. Konga Affiliate Pro uses a combination of cookies
and IP address to track referrals for best possible reliability.
How to get started:
1. Sign up to
become an affiliate by filling out the sign-up form
2. Log in to your
affiliate account to choose which promotional material to use
3. Embed links on
your website, in your social media campaigns, or email promotion.
4. Visitor clicks
on your Konga affiliate link embed on your site, social media platform, or in an email.
5. The visitors IP
is logged and a 30 days cookie is placed in their browser for tracking
purposes.
6. If the visitor
orders (the order need not be placed during the same browser session–cookies
and IPs are stored indefinitely), the order will be registered as a sale for
you.
7. Konga will
review and approve the sale.
8. You will
receive up to 9% commission payouts on the 30th of every month (if your balance
is at least N10,000). That’s it!
2. Jumia Affiliate
Program
Jumia affiliate program is one of the best choices to settle
for when it comes to Affiliate marketing. I very much recommend it especially
to those that own a blog or website. With a good knowledge of how to drive
traffic from your website or blog, you will be making for yourself cool
boxes.
How Jumia affiliate program work
2. Log in to your
affiliate dashboard to choose which product(s) to market
3. Get promotional
material like deep links, banners, feeds from them
4. Embed links on
your website/ in your social media posts or an email marketing campaign.
5. If the visitor
orders (the order needs not to be placed during the same browser session–cookies
and IPs are stored indefinitely), the order will be registered as a sale for
you.
6. Jumia will
review and approve the sale.
3. Web4Africa
Affiliate Program
Web4Africa company limited deal on domain names and
web hosting. They also provide Affiliate programs for their clients; by referring
customers to buy web hosting plans and domain names from web4africa you get
compensated.
You make money by referring your friends and business
associates to sign up for Web4Africa’s website. If the person you referred
carries out any paying transaction in the form of paying for a domain name or web
hosting, Web4Africa pays you for that singular successful transaction.
How to get started:
2. Log in to your
affiliate dashboard to choose which products to promote
3. Get promotional
materials like referral links and banners from them
4. Use links on
your website, social media campaigns, or in email promotions
5. If any visitor
visits their site via your link and requests for a service like hosting, it’ll
be registered as a sale for you
6. Web4Africa will
review and approve the sale
7. You will earn
10% commission off every sale, accumulated and paid to your bank account
4. VConnect
Affiliate Program
Vconnect and Konga affiliates systems are currently on the
same platform, the post affiliate pro system software.
To get started:
1. Register for
free on their website
2. Log in to your
affiliate dashboard
3. Choose which
product to market. The commission rate varies according to product type
4. Get promotional
material like referral links and banners from them
5. Use links on
your website, social media campaigns, or in email promotions
6. If any visitor
visits their site via your link and buys anything, it’ll be registered as a
sale for you
7. You will be
paid upon successful transaction between your referral and VConnect
5. PayPorte Affiliate
Program
PayPorte is another e-commerce store and is regarded as
Nigeria’s preferred online retail store when it comes to the quality of products.
With its good influence on the internet, it is also one of
the top options to consider when it comes to Affiliate marketing in Nigeria.
To get started:
2. You earn ₦1,000 automatically upon registration
3. Log in to your
affiliate dashboard to choose which product
you wish to promote
4. Get promotional
material like referral links and banners
5. Use links on
your website, social media campaigns, or in email promotions
6. If any visitor
visits their site via your link and buys anything, it’ll be registered as a
sale for you
7. PayPorte will
review and approve the sale
8. You will earn
5-10% commission off every sale, accumulated and paid to your bank account
Ways To Promote Your Affiliate Links For Better Results
Did you notice that top brands don't just do adverts; they do great adverts, on various media platforms and in various styles. This is to tell you how important advertisement/promotion is.
Did you ever stop to think about why you want to be an affiliate and why brands need affiliates?
It's simple; to help in promoting products. Truth be told; if you have a product for sale yet you tell no one about it, trust me you are going to remain the owner of that item.
This applies to you the affiliate; if you wish to promote a brand's product, the affiliate link to that item becomes your product. Therefore, to get sales you need to promote, and here are great ways to do that.
- Websites/ Blogs
This is yet another fantastic way of earning from your website or blog - embedding your affiliate links in them.
With the traffic you get on your site, you stand a chance of people buying products via your affiliate links, then you earn your percentage.
As a new blogger or website owner, you might not understand the trading chart detailing your traffic statistics but with the time you will learn how to use it to track your site's progress. - Social Media
We obviously can't underestimate the power of social media when it has to do with advertisement. Lady or gentleman, we've got billions of people scattered across different social media platforms and this is just one great spot to cast the net.
Top social media and their stats 📈
Here’s a summary of the Social Media Statistics for 2020:
3.5 billion social media users worldwide.
Facebook is the most popular social media platform.
90.4% of Millennials, 77.5% of Generation X, and 48.2% of Baby Boomers are active social media users.
Users spend an average of 3 hours per day on social networks and messaging.
73% of marketers believe that social media marketing has been “somewhat effective” or “very effective” for their business.
54% of social browsers use social media to research products.
71% of consumers who have had a positive experience with a brand on social media are likely to recommend the brand to their friends and family.
49% of consumers depend on influencer recommendations on social media.
500 million daily active Instagram stories are uploaded worldwide.
91% of all social media users access social channels via mobile devices.
2.
NB - Promote As Many Products On Many Media Platforms Possible, For Better Sales.
Final Thoughts
There you go on what affiliate marketing is, the top affiliate programs in Nigeria and, how to promote your affiliate links for better sales.
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