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Here’s a list of 2021 best affiliate marketing programs Nigeria you can start right here and make money online

You may have heard about Affiliate Marketing and the astonishing amount of money that Nigerians like you are making every day, every week, and every month.

And now, you are wondering how you can join other affiliate marketers in sharing screenshots and testimonies online about their remarkable success with Affiliate Marketing.

If this is you, then welcome to this page.

By the time you read this article to the end, you will be amazed by the number of Affiliate Marketing programs that you can sign up within Nigeria.

A few international Affiliate Marketing programs have been thrown into the mix if you are bold and daring enough.

Affiliate Marketing is not rocket science, and it works exactly the same way all over the world.

Recommend someone else’s products or services to enough people who need it.

And when they purchase the products or sign up for the services, you receive a nice commission.

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Affiliate marketing works the same way, the world over:

Recommend someone else’s product or services to enough people who need it. And, when they purchase the products or sign up for the services, you receive a nice commission.

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You have no business with the customers nor are you required to manage inventory or import products from China or anywhere else.

Recommend enough products to enough people, and you will keep smiling to the bank every week or month. Yes, Affiliate Marketing is that profitable, if done the right way.

And the beautiful thing is that you are not limited to only one Affiliate Marketing program.

You can join as many as you can as long as you have the resources to manage them.

We, however, recommend that you start with one Affiliate Marketing program and then scale up once you have set up automated systems in place.

But then, this aspect of Affiliate Marketing is beyond the scope of this article. If you want to learn more about this model of making money online, read this article here.

You are here to discover the best Affiliate Marketing programs you can start right here in Nigeria and start making money online.

So, let’s go there!

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Affiliate Marketing Stats

Before we dive into the affiliate programs proper, here are some cool stats you may want to check out:

• Annual Affiliate Marketing spending is expected to reach up to $6.8 billion
• 84 percent of publishers and 81 percent of marketers leverage the astonishing power of Affiliate Marketing
• In less than one year, the overall search interest for Affiliate Marketing soared to 44 percent
• Affiliate programs generate from 15 percent to 30 percent of all sales for publishers or advertisers
• Driving massive conversions and boosting purchases are the two primary goals for 79 percent of marketers.
• ShareASale, the favorite affiliate network for marketers, holds up to 55.7 percent of the total market share.
• Affiliate marketers (about 42.17 percent of them) can promote up to 10 products. About 23.18 percent of marketers promote 11 to 20 products at once, while approximately 14.19 percent promote any number of products from 21 to 50 products.
• Groupon, a company that was once considered a failure as of 2009, is one of the most successful firms built on affiliate commissions, thanks to Affiliate Marketing.
• Nearly half (48.36 percent) of affiliate marketers earn less than $20,000 (=N=7.7 million at #385 per dollar) every year.
• Up to 35 percent of affiliates earn more than $20,000 (=N=7,700,000)
• Top affiliate marketers make up to six figures from Affiliate Marketing.
• Jason Stone – also known as @millionaire_mentor – generated up to $7 million (=N=N2,695,000,000) in retail sales through Affiliate Marketing within a year. Yes, that’s more than =N=2.5 billion in one year!

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These statistics show that Affiliate Marketing is a highly profitable venture that you should consider if you are looking for a side hustle.

And it can be so profitable that you may end up going into it full time.

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Best Affiliate Programs in Nigeria

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, here are the best Affiliate programs in Nigeria that you should consider joining.

Jumia Affiliate Program

Jumia is undoubtedly Nigeria’s #1 online marketplace where you can find a wide variety of products.

This trusted eCommerce store has helped hundreds of Nigerians to earn legitimately through their affiliate program.

Yes, the affiliate program this company runs has paid Nigerians up to 8 per cent on every sale made.

You will even have the exceptional opportunity to earn as much as 11 per cent for huge volume orders!

There are numerous products that you can promote as an affiliate marketer for this company, ranging from smartphones and electronics to fashion accessories and wears as well as home and office appliances.

Affiliates for Jumia get paid monthly within the first week of every month.

When you become an affiliate, you will get paid directly into the local account of any bank of your choice.

The minimum payout, as of the period of writing this article is =N=2,500.

Requirements to join Jumia Affiliate Program

A smartphone or computer with an internet connection. An audience to recommend products to – a blog, email list, social media following, etc.

How to Join Jumia Affiliate Program

Step 1: Visit Jumia affiliate website

Step 2: Complete the form with your details and submit

Step 3: Wait for approval. You will get an email from Jumia within 3 working days.

Step 4: Once approved. You can log into your account to familiarize yourself with the affiliate dashboard.

What Next?

Head over to Jumia Marketplace and browse through the different categories on the platform and then select the product – or products – you would love to market to your target audience.

You can promote any product you want such as smartphones, laptops, clothes, shoes, kitchen or cooking appliances, accessories, and many more.

However, we recommend promoting only products that align with your audience.

Copy the product link and head back to your affiliate dashboard to create your unique referral link for that product.

With this new referral link, you can now promote the product to your audience.

Konga Affiliate Program

Konga is the second most popular eCommerce store – after Jumia – in Nigeria. The platform also has several thousand of products that affiliates like you can easily promote or market to targeted audiences.

The Konga Affiliate Program is also called YuBoss Konga Affiliate program. The program is rated for its ease of use and flexibility.

Konga pays its affiliates up to 9 per cent commissions on every completed purchase. Your entire earnings is reviewed at the end of every month and paid directly into your local bank account.

Requirements to Become a Konga Affiliate

The requirements are the same as the Jumia affiliate program.

How to Join YuBoss Konga Affiliate Program

Step 1: Visit Konga affiliate website to sign up

Step 2: Fill the form. Be sure to indicate how you intend to promote your affiliate offers.

Step 3: Submit and wait for approval.

Step 4: Once approved login into your affiliate dashboard to familiarize yourself.

Step 5: Be sure to complete the training program offer by Konga

Step 6: Create your referral links and start promoting products.

TravelStart Affiliate Program

TravelStart is a prominent online travel agency in Nigeria with an Affiliate Program that is slightly different from the Jumia and Konga affiliate programs we mentioned earlier.

To succeed with the TravelStart Affiliate Program requires that one is a bit more strategic with their marketing and be willing to play the long game.

The thing is, Nigerians are just getting used to purchasing things on the internet, especially if they are buying a product, sight unseen.

The best strategy is to, first of all, provide a lot of value upfront to get your audience to trust you. This is a technique that will always work, irrespective of the online marketing model you are running though.

Value and trust are the attributes that can convince and convert prospects – Nigerians inclusive – easily to buy any product from you.

Nevertheless, many Nigerians like you are making tons of money every month via the TravelStart Affiliate program.

And you can be one of them if you can just become a partner and start getting people to click through your link to the official TravelStart website and make bookings.

Requirements to get started as a TravelStart Affiliate Marketer

You will need the same requirements as outlined in the Jumia section. The only additional attribute you will need is grit and stick-to-itiveness.

How to Join the TravelStart Affiliate Program

Step 1: Visit the TravelStart affiliate website and select your country.

Step 2: Follow the prompt to create your profile.

Payporte Affiliate Program

Payporte is another popular eCommerce store in Nigeria, though not as popular as Jumia and Konga. It was founded in 2014, and its headquarters is in Lagos, Nigeria.

Payporte also runs an affiliate program which you can take advantage of by browsing through the products on the website.

If you love fashion or are into fashion, Payporte is the platform to run to and work with as an affiliate.

This is because the fashion section on the eCommerce store is full of attractive and highly affordable clothes as well as other clothing materials.

Requirements to Become a Payporte affiliate

Refer to the requirements needed to run a successful and efficient affiliate marketing business as outlined in the Jumia section of this article.

How to Register

Step 1: Visit Payporte Affiliate Website to sign up.

Step 2: Follow prompt to create your profile.

WEB4AFRICA Affiliate Program

Web4Africa is one of the most prominent web hosting companies in Nigeria. The company is known to provide reliable domain and hosting services for webmasters and web developers.

You can follow the process outlined in the previous affiliate programs to sign up as an affiliate for Web4Africa.

The company offers up to 10 percent commission for each person you refer to their services, and the individuals signs up by paying for any of the offers.

Take note; if the referrals are not valid, you will not get paid as Web4Africa efficiently audits referrals in order to weed out invalid transactions.

You can also refer your blog readers and friends to sign up on the web-hosting site.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

Refer to the requirements needed to run a successful and efficient affiliate marketing business as outlined in the Jumia section of this article.

How to Join Web4Africa Affiliate Program

Log on to the Web4Africa website and register as a client

Purchase a product, e.g. hosting services, domain name, etc.

Next, sign up to the Web4Africa affiliate program.

Log into your Affiliate account/dashboard.

Copy your affiliate link

Go to your blog and create content about Web4Africa products or services that you intend to promote.

Embed your affiliate link on your content. And you can also share your link on your YouTube channel or email marketing campaign.

Wakanow Affiliate Program

Wakanow is another online travel agency, just like TravelStart. This Nigerian company is into tourism and hospitality as well.

When you sign up for this platform’s affiliate program, you will have access to multiple attractive and juicy offers that your prospects will be fools to pass up.

The offers include fare flexibility, great discounts, tour packages, bookings of hotels, airport pickups, etc.

You will also get access to easier payment plans, sell more-win more offers, unbeatable discounts, among others that you can offer your prospects.

And when prospects take you up on these offers, you will earn a juicy commission.

How to Join Wakanow Affiliate Program

Step 1: Register on the affiliate portal

Step 2: Pay the registration fee using the unique payment link sent to you

Step 3: Wait for approval. Typically happens immediately.

Step 4: Log into your account

Expertnaire

Expertnaire is an online marketplace set up exclusively for the sale of high-value knowledge-based digital products.

Expertnaire is gradually becoming Nigeria’s #1 marketplace for digital products like eBooks, courses, tutorials, among others.

There are 3 major parties on this platform – the vendor, the affiliate, and the customer.

• The vendor is the individual that owns the product being sold on the platform.

• Affiliates are marketers like you who recommend products on the Expertnaire platform to interested individuals. And when any of these individuals purchase the product, you earn a commission.

• Customers, of course, are those who purchase the products that you recommend on Expertnaire.

You have to pay an annual fee of =N=10,000 to become an affiliate on the Expertnaire platform. The fee as the founder explains is to separate tire-kickers from serious marketers interested in building a thriving online business.

The commissions paid out on the digital products sold on Expertnaire vary. It ranges from 15 percent to 50 percent.

Every product listed on this platform has undergone a thorough check by Expertnaire’s quality control department. This implies that every product’s authenticity is confirmed before it is listed on the platform.

Some vendors on the Expertnaire platform provide email swipes and marketing materials while others don’t.

When you utilize these materials – or not, that is your choice – and someone purchases the product(s) through your affiliate link, you will get paid.

Expertnaire pays both vendors and affiliates alike via bank deposits. That means after you have signed up, you will be required to provide your bank account details.

The name of your bank account must correspond to the name on the affiliate account.

Affiliates are paid their commissions every Friday of each week while vendors get paid bi-monthly.

Top International Affiliate Networks

In the previous section, we discussed the numerous affiliate programs available in Nigeria. In this section, we’ll be taking a brief look at top international affiliate networks.

International affiliate programs are programs run by multi-national companies. When you join any of these affiliate programs, you will be exposed to large streams of income in which you will be paid in foreign currencies.

You can join any of these below:

Amazon Affiliate Program

The largest international affiliate program is the Amazon Affiliate Program. Amazon is the largest eCommerce company with an online platform that showcases millions of products that you can easily affiliate for.

Although Amazon started several years ago, selling books, but has now gravitated to selling virtually any product that you can think of. You can affiliate for kitchen utensils, foods, machines, clothes, books, gadgets, shoes, etc.

Amazon also has what is known as Amazon Kindle, a platform where authors and writers can write and publish their eBooks for sale. This means you have a plethora of avenues that you should take advantage of.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

Refer to the requirements needed to run a successful and efficient affiliate marketing business as outlined in the Jumia section of this article.

It is worth mentioning here that you must have a very active blog, mobile app or YouTube channel before you can become an Amazon Associate.

How to Register

1. Create an active blog or YouTube channel.
2. Visit the Amazon Associate homepage. This is where you fill out your registration details.
3. This is where you build your Amazon Associates Profile. After registration, add your website URL, your account, mobile application, YouTube channel, etc.
4. Create Amazon Affiliate links.
5. Start promoting the links using your blog, YouTube channel, etc. and start making sales.

ShareASale Affiliate Program

ShareASale is a reputable affiliate network that you can sign up with in order to promote affiliate offers. ShareASale has been in business for up to 19 years and known to be one of the largest affiliate networks today.

ShareASale has several products that range from agricultural products, fashion products, home and garden products to business products, etc.

As you can see, most of these products are physical, though you may see a handful of digital products that you can also promote. You can choose products from any of these categories to promote.

Requirements to Get Started

Refer to the requirements needed to run a successful and efficient affiliate marketing business as outlined in the Jumia section of this article.

However, getting accepted on this affiliate network as a complete beginner may be a tad challenging.

This is why you may need to carry out in-depth research in order to find out the steps to follow in order to get accepted on ShareASale.

JVZoo Affiliate Program

JVZoo affiliate program is known for one thing: it is a platform that sells digital products. This implies that the majority of the products sold on this platform are Private Label Rights (PLR) products, eBooks, software, etc.

JVZoo is user-friendly, and there are tons of products on the platform that you can promote as an affiliate.

The only downside here is that the only way to receive your commissions is only through PayPal.

And by now, you already know the challenge that most marketers have with this secure, payment platform.

They are in Nigeria, but you cannot use PayPal to receive funds but only to pay for products online.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

A laptop and a blog are enough to get you started as an affiliate marketer on JVZoo.

How to Register

1. Use your email address and names to sign up on the platform
2. Copy your affiliate link. Any product you promote via this link earns you a commission.
3. Pick any product(s) and start promoting them. Some of these products come with email swipes, sales letters, banners, etc.

MaxBounty

MaxBounty is a cost per action (CPA) affiliate network which grants marketers like you the remarkable opportunity to become affiliates for different vendors (companies) in order to earn commissions for every web visitor such affiliates bring to these companies.

Take note that MaxBounty uses the cost per action model of affiliate marketing.

You will earn commissions based on the number of visitors you direct to the vendors’ websites.

The visitors do not have to purchase anything; the only action they are required to do is to submit their zip code or email address in order to find out more about the offers presented by the vendors.

This is by far the easiest way of making money using the affiliate marketing model.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

All you need is a laptop and a blog or YouTube Channel.

How to Register

Working on MaxBounty is not only about registration; it is about getting approved. You may attempt to register on the site, but an Affiliate Manager will need to interview you, and if you don’t pass, you will not be approved.

And when you are not approved, it means you will not be able to promote any CPA offers.

However, if you can surmount this obstacle and end up getting accepted into the affiliate network, the sky is just the starting point when it comes to earning crazy amounts of money if you do it the right way.

WarriorPlus

WarriorPlus is also a digital product platform designed for buying and selling of products that have to do with an online business.

Users of the platform sell online courses, eBooks, web-based software, done-for-you marketing materials or templates, software, and access to paid membership sites.

All products sold on WarriorPlus are all within the Internet Marketing and general Business niches.

Vendors can utilize the technology they have access to for delivering products automatically after someone purchases them.

Affiliates also enjoy the technology as it automatically issues them their commissions for sales generated via their affiliate links. You can also earn referral fees.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

A laptop and a blog, Facebook page, or YouTube Channel are good enough for this.

How to Register

1. Visit the official website and register by supplying your name, email address, etc.
2. Log in to the dashboard and navigate to where the ‘Affiliates’ tab is.
3. Copy your affiliate link which you can paste on your blog, YouTube Channel, or Facebook page. You can also make use of the email series or banners if the vendor of the product you are promoting makes them available.

Fiverr Affiliate

Fiverr is one of the largest and leading freelance service marketplace where anyone can outsource work like article writing, email series, web development, whiteboard animation videos, basic digital marketing, etc.

The platform was founded in 2010 with its headquarters based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Many Nigerians are making stupendous amounts of money daily, weekly, and monthly offering services to clients on the platform.

The Fiver affiliate program is a more recent innovation, a referral program in which you refer someone to the platform, and you get paid for it.

If you are already making money on Fiverr as a freelancer, becoming an affiliate will make another nice side income for you.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

You don’t need much other than a laptop or smartphone to be an affiliate on Fiverr. Of course, if you own a blog or YouTube channel, it will be a plus for you.

How to Register

To register, all you need to do is create an account on Fiverr, and you automatically become an affiliate. You will see your referral code pasted on the right side of your dashboard.

After you get your referral code, you can paste in on your blog, YouTube channel, Facebook pages, and groups on Facebook.

Commission Junction

Not many people have heard of Commission Junction (CJ), but it is one of the most popular, international affiliate networks in the world.

Different companies – known as ‘Merchants’ – promote hundreds of their programs on Commission Junction.

Affiliates can also promote services such as healthcare, travel and tourism, insurance offers, etc.

This means that you may have to request individually for affiliate offers that you want to promote on the network.

Some of these networks can accept you immediately, while others are very picky.

Requirements to Get Started

You will need a computer and a blog, YouTube channel or Facebook page if you do not have a blog yet.

Take note that the commission you earn on Commission Junction depends primarily on the service or product you choose to promote.

Some products or services allow you to earn as low as 3 percent commission while other offers you promote can make you as high as 40 percent commission!

How to Register

You can register using your name, email address, etc. just like you are expected to do on the other affiliate programs.

Commission Junction pays its affiliates via direct deposit into a U.S. checking account as well as check once every month. The minimum payout is $100 for checks and $50 for direct deposit.

Ultimate Bundles Affiliate

Ultimate Bundles is a site that offers periodic flash sales of several bundles of digital products.

These products are across multiple niches, and each bundle contains several eBooks, templates, courses as well as digital downloads at heavily discounted, too-good-to-be-true prices.

These bundles are generally announced a few weeks just before the sale. On this website, it is about creating a sense of urgency in order to sell off the courses.

When you sign up to be an affiliate, you will receive email notifications informing you that a new bundle has been announced.

This will give you early-bird access to review the bundle, strategically plan your sales funnel or marketing strategy.

Requirements to Get Started as a Beginner

A laptop and a blog, YouTube Channel or Facebook page will suffice.

How to Register

1. Sign up with your name, email address, etc.
2. As soon as you join the Ultimate Bundles affiliate program, you will automatically be added to an email list. And you will start receiving email alerts every time a new sale is coming up.

Most affiliates receive 40 percent commissions on each sale that is generated. You will even receive 40 percent as commissions if you purchase the bundle yourself.

But affiliates that have also succeeded in contributing a product to a bundle will be paid 70 percent when the sale goes through.

Other international affiliate programs you should consider joining include:

• BigCommerce Affiliate
• Shopify Affiliates
• Wealthy affiliates
• Rakuten Affiliate

Wrap Up: 2021 Best Affiliate Marketing Programs You Can Start Right Here In Nigeria

Affiliate Marketing is an excellent online business model that beginners in the world of Online Marketing can engage in without spending too much money.

As long as you can purchase a domain name and pay for web-hosting service, you can run a blog in order to promote products as an affiliate. Several bloggers make a full-time income via Affiliate Marketing.

All you need to succeed in this business is an excellent strategy, consistency, and hard work. Be focused; sign up on one affiliate program and promote one product within a niche that you are very familiar with.

This will make you look like an authority in this field and what you will be doing as you generate quality content will be fun, not work.

So, create a business plan; run Google ads or Facebook ads to your blog, and build an email list. Then start promoting those products as an affiliate, and you will start seeing results!

Now your turn

Know any affiliate program we didn’t cover and you would like us to include in the next update? Leave a comment below and we’ll check it out right away.

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