How to Start Affiliate Marketing in Nepal (And Make Money) in 2024

Step-by-step guide to start affiliate marketing in Nepal

Today, I will teach you how you can start affiliate marketing in Nepal and make money in 2024.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

First, let's learn about the definition of affiliate marketing. In simple terms, affiliate marketing is nothing but a type of marketing strategy adopted by brands and companies where they share profits from their sale to their affiliates (win-win for both parties). Affiliates are those who shares their brand, products or services to their online audience through their affiliate links.

For Example: Nike -a global shoes brand gives 2% commission to their affiliates whoever sells their shoes through their affiliate links, similarly Amazon pays 2% to 10% to their associate who brings a sale through their affiliate link.

Step 1

First step is you have to decide what Niche or category you want to be an affiliate on. There are thousands of niches. Niche means a subcategory of an industry like jewelry, gadgets, apparels, gifts, bags and many more. Choose your niche wisely before starting because in the long-term your audience will know you or your brand as an expert of the niche that you choose. For example: Indian Youtuber TechnicalGuruJi (>1M subscriber) is famous for tech and gadget related products (niche), similarly MKBHD is also famous for Tech related videos with millions of YouTube and social media followers. 

Step 2

Now, you have selected your niche. Next step is to grow your audience and followers on that niche. Let's say you are a great writer, video producer or reviewer of gadgets. Create multiple social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and grow your followers sharing your expertise under your selected niche. Provide value through your expertise on the content to your followers. Your followers number number grows, once they see value in your content. Help them as much as you can so that you can grow your influence on them. This is beneficial for you too as you can earn from YouTube ads revenue through video views and Facebook/Instagram ads revenue too. You can also create your website/blog under that niche and write about the products and service under your niche, share your YouTube videos within your blog post, which will bring more viewers and credibility to you connect.

Work on great quality SEO rich content while creating content so that your website, videos and content can rank to the top of google search. For example: You created a content regarding a wireless earbuds and also made a video and shared on YouTube, your content was so popular that your videos started gaining viewers and your blog post started ranking to the top of google when someone searched for wireless earbuds. In this case, you will earn from YouTube ad revenue and also earn from Google AdSense revenue. 

Start writing and creating videos and content regularly. Start growing your audience on social media.

Step 3

Now on next step you choose your affiliate program, there are many affiliate programs in global market like Amazon, BestBuy, Walmart, Shareasale, CJ Affiliate, ClickBank etc. Joining them can be easy but if you are from Nepal getting paid from international platform like mentioned above can be hard. 

In Nepal you can choose Daraz Affiliate or Brother-mart Affiliate for your affiliate platform as these platforms are Nepal-based and there won't be any issue to get paid on timely manner and customer support. Daraz Affiliate have tough threshold to enter their affiliate program, whereas Brother-mart affiliate is easy to join and one of the best affiliate program in Nepal, which pays you up to 20% commission to their affiliates. Signup to the affiliate program as per your needs and requirement. Make sure to check the cookies policy and commission, bonus rates from these affiliate programs.

Step 4

After you find and signup for your affiliate program, the next step is to set up your affiliate link. Once you login to your affiliate to your affiliate dashboard, you will find your affiliate link on the dashboard like shown above. These unique link is your affiliate link, where if anyone purchases anything visiting that link, you make certain commission or bonuses of that sale, depending on the platform you choose and the products you sold, Brother-mart affiliate commission rates starts from 1% to up to 20% depending on the price and availability of the product. You can also create a custom link as per the product link in your dashboard as shown in the image below. Some affiliate programs also provide you the pictures, videos and related content for you to share on your social media accounts. 

Step 5

This is the last and hardest step in the affiliate marketing.

The link that you got after choosing and signing up for affiliate program, to bring a sale through your affiliate link. Many people find hard as they don't have much of audience or followers so they give up. But some people with thousands of followers and traffic are sharing their affiliate link and making a fortune in Nepal through affiliate marketing. You can share your affiliate link on any platform or account like your own social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or Facebook groups, YouTube comment sections, blog comment section, Quora, Reddit, WhatsApp, messenger and many more. You can even share it on your own blogs or websites. Once people find it helpful and useful, they will click on your affiliate link and make a purchase and hence you make money as a commission or bonuses.

• Tip: Create a short URL of your affiliate link
• Share your link giving extra discount and coupon codes if available
• Provide more value to them instead of trying to sell, like benefits of the products, testimonials, your own personal use cases, etc

Advantages and Disadvantages of Affiliate Marketing in Nepal

The main advantages and disadvantages of affiliate marketing are listed below

Advantages:

• Work Flexibility: You can work on your own schedule. There is no one above or below you. You can work any day of the week and anytime of the day.
• No huge capital or investment: You don't need a huge capital to start, a simple smartphone with internet can be the job, or a laptop with internet will make your job lot easier. There is no any investment need to start affiliate marketing.
• No Inventory and customer service: As an affiliate, you don't have to work about stock of the products or services, no worries about unsold stocks, refunds from the products returns or exchanges. You don't have to act like a customer service and deal with them.
• Huge opportunity to scale: Through affiliate marketing, there is a huge opportunity for you to make 4-figure income or even 6-figure if you gained more traffic and sale through your affiliate link.
• No technical knowledge: You don't need any degree in computer science or have to be tech geek to start affiliate marketing. A simple blogging platform and social media knowledge will be the work.

Disadvantages

• Time Commitment: You constantly have to be committed to your growth and provide value to your audience, whether it be by writing blogs, article, creating content on your YouTube channels or other social media.
• Patience: You really need to have patience in this field as your content and affiliate link might can grow overnight, it takes times. Google ranking, SEO, keywords there are lot of things you should consider after you create a content.
• Commission rate: Commission rate can change drastically, it's not in your control.
• AI Tools: One of the recent disadvantage is AI tools, most of search query on Google, Bing, Yahoo, AI directly provides the answer to the questions so your article may not reach to your potential readers or customer, your blog and affiliate business can have a big negative impact.

How much you can earn from affiliate marketing in Nepal?

You can make anywhere from Rs.10 to Rs 10lakhs+ a month in Nepal through affiliate marketing, it all depends on what kind of audience and followers you have, how many of them you have, will they buy from your link provided, how many of them will buy, what kind of products you share, what are the commission rates. These factors play a crucial role in determining your affiliate earning in Nepal.

For example: you are getting a commission of Rs 300 for each smartwatch sale and you shared your affiliate link to your 10k+ social media followers and out of 10,000 followers, 100 of them bought from your link, that means your will make 100x300= Rs, 30,000 from that one smartwatch affiliate link share. This is just a assumption and rough estimate.

Conclusion

If you want to make money online from your online audience through affiliate marketing in Nepal, you can try following the steps discussed above. Let us know if you have questions regarding affiliate marketing in Nepal. We will be happy to help you. So, are you ready to earn money through affiliate marketing in Nepal this 2024?