Key Steps To Get From Zero To Riches With Content Marketing

Content marketing using blog articles or social media posts can be a profitable business for every person willing to invest the time to learn the ins and outs of it.
This is not a get rich quick scheme!
Nothing will happen over night.
It takes some time.
In order to have the best chances to become a successful content marketer starting from zero there are a few key steps toward this goal.
Don’t be afraid that you know nothing and you have to start with zero knowledge about blogging, affiliate marketing, content creation, Internet advertising!
Every successful affiliate marketer who is using content marketing had to go through the following key steps.

Key step 1 – Learning

This will take as much time as every person needs. There is no standard. The rule of thumb is to set up a clear goal and a finite time to learn as much as you can about whatever topic you need to become familiar with, before starting your first affiliate blog.
The learning never stops.
You need to keep improving your skills to stay in business and earn as much as you want to from your business.
The fastest way to find out what those terms mean (blogging, affiliate marketing, content creation, Internet advertising) is to search their definition online. You can read the definition of these topics in an hour. You won't get very far doing so.

Let's take the definition of affiliate marketing from Wikipedia:

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.[1]"Affiliate Marketing". 2018. En.Wikipedia.Org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing.

Now we know what it is, but we don't know how to become successful doing it. We need to read more about it.

We need to carry out in depth study about affiliate marketing or any other topic that we don't undersand yet to be able to start with the right knowledge.
Go to Amazon and search for affiliate marketing books and pick from those with a lots of positive reviews.
Don’t fall into the trap of just reading the books and articles without doing nothing with the knowledge gained.

Put an action to every internet article or book page you read.
Read with questions in mind.

This way you will shorten your learning stage.
As you read and apply what you know you will become more skillful to identify what you can improve, what you don't know yet but you need to, and what you can pay others to do for you.
You will be more efficient and you will have cleared some time chunks in your schedule to allocate them for other activities.
After you have the basic knowledge about affiliate marketing through content you can go to the next key step.

Key Step 2 – Identify Your Niche

To identify the right niche to work on start answering the following questions:

Who is my audience?
What should they do after reading?
What problem do they need solved?
Are there competing products or services?
Who is my competition?
How do they do it?
Can I implement some of their steps to start my business and stay in business?

The preparatory stage involves searching for the product or service that is requested by enough people to justify the effort to invest into affiliate services.

Key step 3 – Time Management

You need to be able to produce content on a strict schedule. Your audience is expecting something new from you every x number of days that you define. If you decide that each Monday you wil publish a new article then you need to organize your time to publish that article when your audience is expecting it. This is not hard to do just think of any TV show. You know when is aired and you reserve your time to see it. The same thing happens with content marketing also. Publishing on a strict schedule is important for building and maintaining your audience. They will be your most important word spreading people.