Trust takes time to develop, and energy to preserve. But you must focus on building your community, and earning the trust of your audience, if you want to earn money through affiliate marketing.
The suggestions for items and the affiliate love you’ll receive from your community comes naturally after you EARN that trust from them..
Trust is made through 2 things:
Giving
Giving away and handing out as much as possible. Content, information, freebies, high-value stuff, and sometimes even your own time.
Online karma does exist, and the more you hand out, the more you get back in return– and possibly not from the very same people you offered it to, which is why the second piece of making trust is …
Suggestions from others.
Get on other individuals’ radar and have them do the marketing for you. Not for the affiliate products that you’re promoting, but you, or your brand.
Trust is made much faster through the good friends and relationships people currently have with each other.
That’s why it is very important to give to everybody, no matter how huge or how small they might appear to your brand name.
Because you never know—they may know somebody who knows somebody who will become your biggest client, or a multi-product customer, or maybe the window to an opportunity that would have never happened otherwise.
Do these 2 things and you’ll be well on your method to earning the trust of your audience– and making income through affiliate marketing!
I hope you enjoyed this short pick-me-up!