Smartphones have opened the doors to people who are interested in making a living. As the computer industry began to grow, so did the number of people trying to make a living from their home computers. The same is expected to happen with the smartphone. Smartphones have many of the same functions as a computer and allow users to connect to the Internet and purchase products with ease. Marketing with smartphones and towards other people’s smartphones is a technique that is starting to be used by affiliate networks. They are quickly realizing that more and more people are using their phones to browse the internet and buy products, so they are now creating websites and business pages that are fully phone friendly.

Use of affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is definitely one of the most popular ways to make money online. As the industry is currently very saturated, and due to Google’s strict rules, more and more people try and fail. Affiliates are always looking for new methods to market products; And due to the advancements of the smartphone, they now have a whole new scheme to make money that is usually not exploited.

The same way an affiliate can collect an email list, a mobile internet marketer can collect numbers. They can then send text messages to these numbers containing a link. If the person receiving the text message has a smartphone, they will be able to click on the link and it will take them directly to the merchant’s page. If they decide to buy the given product, the affiliate will make a sale. It’s that easy.

The main benefit of mobile phone marketing is that the potential customer will receive the text instantly and won’t have to go through their email accounts to read a message. Since 90% of people who have a mobile phone always have it close at hand, this drastically increases the chances that the potential customer will simply read the message. Which will translate into more sales.

Using your smartphone

As smartphones become more and more advanced, there are more opportunities to convert the skills that can be learned from internet marketing on your phone. Smartphones have; word processing features, which means article marketing is an option; have access to the Internet, which means you can promote products online; and Google has a mobile-friendly version of AdWords, which means you can run PPC campaigns. All the ingredients are there to make a complete smartphone based business, you just need to learn how to use affiliate marketing techniques effectively.