What Software, Hardware and Memberships Do I Need Before I Start My First Campaign?
Before you can begin building, you need tools. And the same’s true if you’re building your affiliate marketing career.
You should go through this guide step-by-step and either check you already have what you need, or get it for yourself.
You should also read our guides to the mindset, skills, and budget you will need to begin affiliate marketing.
Hardware: Server
You will need to rent a web server, use an Amazon S3 account, or a CDN (Content Delivery Network) account in order to serve your landing pages.
People often try to avoid this step, or try to save money by using cheap web hosting. DO NOT DO THIS.
Bad web hosting can easily cost you all your profits by giving you faulty tracking or slow landing pages. Is it worth saving $25 a month if that means you waste $1,000?
If you are definitely going for Voluum as your tracker (see below) you can also use Amazon S3 to host your landers. Here’s our tutorial on doing that. This approach is cheaper than having your own VPS set up, and probably the best way to start affiliate marketing right now.
Unless you’re an experienced system administrato ...