Affiliate Marketing Does Not Require A Website

Do I need a website to be an affiliate marketer?

While most affiliate marketers do have a website, you don’t really need one to promote products in an affiliate program. 

Affiliate marketing has been around a long time, although up until recently, people were simply calling it recommendations and referrals.  People have recommended products and services of businesses long before the Internet made it possible and long before there were “Affiliate Programs”.

As I mentioned in the previous article in this series, there are plenty of ways to promote an affiliate product without the use of a website.  With that being said, I would highly recommend the use of a website for promoting affiliate products.  Web hosting is cheap these days.  Check out HostMonster or BlueHost for web hosting.

Here are a just a few ways you can promote an affiliate product without having a website or email list.

• Print Products – You can have business cards, brochures, and more printed up that direct people to the affiliate program’s website via your affiliate link.
• Newspaper & Magazine Ads – Place an ad in a magazine or your local newspaper using your affiliate link as the point of contact for those reading.
• Online Search Engine Listings – Google, Yahoo, and MSN are all great ways to advertise using your affiliate link without owning a website.
• Car Decals – Have window stickers, bumper stickers, door signs, etc. advertising your affiliate link on them.
• Radio & Television Commercials – Create a commercial or have one done by a professional that you can submit and have played on air.
• Forums & Message Boards – Most message boards allow you to place a link in the signature area of your posts. Check with the rules of the site before posting your affiliate link here because some do not allow advertisements in your posts.
• Twitter.com, Squidoo.com, and other Social Media sites. – These sites are growing in popularity and are free to use for business purposes.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to being able to market your affiliate links without owning a website or mailing list.  These are just a few of the ways you can do it. There are many more out there and a bit of creativity is all you need to come up with your own ideas as well.  Search Google for ways to promote offline.  I’m sure you’ll find way more than what I specified above. 

Stay tuned for the next article in this series where I talk about finding companies and products to promote. 

Happy Hunting!