These affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs are so important. But also, so overlooked. When it comes to starting your online business, it’s easy to dive in head first without knowing the in’s and out’s. We’ve definitely been there, which is why we want to make sure you school you. When it comes to affiliate marketing, you can definitely make passive income from your efforts. The problem is, you need to know how to start out the right way so you’re not spinning your wheels. Here, we’ve given you 7 important affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs to succeed. Read on so you can learn how to be a bad-ass female entrepreneur/affiliate marketer in one.

This post contains affiliate links. That means if you use them to make a purchase, I’ll earn enough money from that sale to maybe buy myself some wine. Because I probably deserve it.

Before we get into the important tips, let me explain what an affiliate marketer even is!

An Affiliate Marketer: This is someone who promotes a brand, business, product or service to their target audience and receives a commission once it’s purchased or signed up for.

For example: let’s say you’re a female entrepreneur who loves to decorate her home office. Let’s also say you love to use Amazon Prime to find cool products you can get quickly. Your friends or social media fans want to know where you got your desk, and fuzzy office chair… As an affiliate marketer for Amazon Associates, you would hook them up with your special Amazon links to access the products, and if they purchase them using your link… YOU get a commission. Cool right?

Now that you know what an affiliate marketer is, let’s jump into the important affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs. Let’s go!

1. Know your Niche

When you know your specific niche market (the field of business you want to market. i.e. home office decor for female entrepreneurs) it’s easier to market to your audience. The more specified you are about the types of market you’re going to be working in, the better you will be at dominating in that niche. By providing your target audience with products and or information they will begin to see you as the go to person. When your audience feels you have the answers to their issues, or can provide you with the “thing”  they need, they’ll be more likely to buy from you! When they buy from you, you make the commission! It’s a win-win.

2. Be Selective With Promoting Products

Of all the affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs, this is pretty crucial. Just because there are literally TONS of businesses and products that you can choose to be an affiliate for doesn’t mean you should. Stick to a few, within your niche, that you really believe in, and feel your audience can benefit from. One mistake many affiliate marketing beginners make is sprinkling tons of random affiliate links all over their page. This not only SCREAMS unprofessional, comes off as too sales-y and can be an instant turn-off to your would-be audience. In other words, be selective with the products you promote and your audience will love you for it.

3. Test the Products or Service

Don’t be like many affiliate marketers who just throw links all over their page without trying them just to get paid. As an affiliate marketer, your responsible for making sure you know your shit. If you find a product or service fits your niche market, and seems like it can help your audience, be sure to sample it as well. This way,  you can choose to say yes, or no, based on the quality or overall results. When choosing to promote Get Paid to Pin by Dale of Blogging Her Way, we tested her promise. She promised to teach how to get paid passive income with affiliate marketing using Pinterest pins. Because it felt like a quality product/program that delivered on it’s promise, we chose to make it part of our affiliate marketing plan. If it hadn’t, we wouldn’t have bothered ever mentioning it. Quality over quantity, baby!

4. Have an Affiliate Marketing Plan and Strategy

You know what they say, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. (okay Idk anyone who says this, but I’ve heard it before). In order to kill it, you need to follow these affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs, especially this one. Make sure that you know exactly where you will promote your affiliate links, when and how much you want to make within the month from each link. This will  help you stand out against your competition because you’ll have a reason to promote each of your affiliate links. Knowing where to place each link (i.e. Pinterest, Your blog, or Social Media) will help you to maximize your audience reach and test the results. Obviously, your goal is to make sales, so having a plan will help you to track your affiliate link placements and their results.

5. Break Up With Affiliate Programs

Sometimes, affiliate programs make changes in their products, commission fees, or even overall rules. If you find that the affiliate product or program you’ve been using is no longer working for you or your audience, it’s time to say “Thank u Next”! As stated within these affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs, there are more than enough affiliate products out there. As a bad-ass boss babe, you must refuse to work with anything or anyone that no longer serves you. Sending out a simple email to your customers letting them know why you broke up will show them you’re about your business. This will help them to feel they can trust you further down the line when you introduce another affiliate marketing program you believe in.

6. Don’t Be Afraid to Promote High Ticket Items

Many female entrepreneurs shy away from promoting high-ticket affiliate items/products to their audience as beginners. Let me be the first to tell you to STOP IT! Choose to promote a variety of affiliate products, from low to high-ticket and stand behind each of them equally. If you know who your target audience is, you should know the lowest and highest amount they’d be willing to pay. In my experience, I’ve found that if a product, tool, or program is proven to solve any need, then your customer will pay. Don’t sell yourself short just because you’re just starting out. It takes as much work to promote a lower priced item as it does to promote a high-ticketed item. YOU’RE WORTH IT, and so are your customers!

7. Always Be Candid About Promoting

Affiliate Links

These days, it’s mandatory that you get candid and disclose your use of affiliate links.  There needs to be an obvious disclosure that you could possibly be gaining a commission if someone makes a purchase using your affiliate links.  You often see it done throughout blog posts, (ours is disclosed in pink font) but not so much on social media. If you’re using a platform like Pinterest or Instagram to promote an item, be up front about it. Announce it in the description, or throw a few hashtags up stating so. Hashtags like (#ad, #promotion, or #affiliatelinks) are a great way to stay candid about your business through social media!

Affiliate Marketing Tips for Female Entrepreneurs – Conclusion

Now that I’ve given you the  7 super important affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs, you have no excuse but to be great! By sticking to these tips, you will find that being an affiliate marketer runs just a bit easier for you. While they may seem rather basic, these tips were put in play because they’re often overlooked. If your’e looking to be successful at your online business, you’ll learn that a little goes a long way. We want you to kill it with affiliate marketing and rock it like a boss! Got affiliate marketing tips for female entrepreneurs we should know about? Let us know in the comments.