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The number of companies with whom you can begin your business is pretty big. I am personally involved with several programs to one degree or another and they are all money makers if you promote them correctly. They range from the household names like Best Buy all the way down to your local flower shop who might offer a rebate on future referrals for referring customers to them.

You need to structure your company such that you can profit from them all over time.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

You refer folks to your unique affiliate link. When customers decide to buy through your link, they company sees it and pays you a commission ranging anywhere from 4% to 100%.

It is fairly uncomplicated, although the successful execution does have some amount of artistry to it:

Decide which affiliate programs you want to get involved with.

Decide how you are going to spread the news about that program.

Create new content that is relevant to that method or channel.

Drive traffic or new people to that content, which is to say spread the news about that content.

Decide What Affiliate Programs You Want To Join

In order to figure out what Internet affiliate marketing program you want to start your affiliate business with you have to understand what your goals are. Making money is so foggy that I am afraid it will not inspire you to get up and walk away from the boob tube after you get home from all day at work.

You need well-defined goals to motivate you.

For instance, if you just want to get paid a couple of extra bucks from time to time, you really don’t have to spend a lot of prep time. If you want a serious affiliate marketing business that will cover your car payment this month, your car payment and utilities next month, and these plus your rent or mortgage in 3 to 6 months, you are going to need to invest a little more thinking and planning.

I want to strongly encourage you to consider regularly promoting subscription affiliate products, too. Why?

Subscription affiliate products pay you every month. In addition to getting paid for what you produced this month, you will get paid… again… for what you produced last month.

I hope this is beginning to set some bells off in your mind because if you get with and promote the correct, high quality subscription affiliate product or service you can be looking at a lifestyle change.

Decide How You Are Going to Promote

There are a ton of ways to market your affiliate link. They include:

Blogging about the services and products on your blog

Talking about it on other blogs or including it in your signature when you post on other blogs

Creating unique articles for posting on the article directories

Making videos about what you are promoting

…and this is just the tip of the iceberg on ways to promote your content.

Create Content Relevant to the Channel

Blog posts, especially those you post on your own blog, have a lot more leeway in the content you create and post. For instance, what you post on your own blog is really only subject to approval by you while that which you post on the article directories have an entirely different set of rules. Don’t get frustrated when they refuse what you wanted to post, just go edit it and follow their rules and you will get posted.

Likewise, you don’t create a blog post and post it to YouTube. You create a video of yourself discussing or instructing on the benefits of visiting your link. (Although that line is getting blurred by software that will create a video from your blog text and read it to your viewers like the lead in to the original Star Wars movies.)

Drive Traffic to that Content

Remember, the goal of articles and videos is to get people to view your original content on the products and services which you are promoting. Many, if not most, article services do not allow you to post links directly to your affiliate link. Some will let you slip by, but it is just frustrating your efforts when you have to edit an article so that it gets posted. Even in the affiliate marketing business time is money.

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Best Regards,

Tim Singleton

Affiliate Marketing has become so popular mainly due to the fact that you do not need to create a product of your own and using the promotional materials provided by the affiliate merchant means you can get started online straight away.

Once you sign up as an affiliate you are usually given an affiliate website but one has to question whether this is sufficient to start and build a successful affiliate marketing business on the internet.

You are more likely to achieve success in affiliate marketing on the internet by starting your own website due to the fact that you cannot make any changes to an affiliate website in order to optimize it for the search engines to gain organic traffic.

There are so many advantages to having your own website such as being able to pre-sell the products on your website by showcasing them with your own reviews, which is a highly effective way of selling. There are several ways that are open to you if you want to do affiliate marketing without your own website if building and running a website does not appeal to you. Here are some ideas.

Email marketing is something you can do without having an affiliate website of your own. You would direct your leads straight to your affiliate sales page from your affiliate links in the email message if you choose this method.

Another way is to set up an auto-responder with a series of prewritten messages about the product you are promoting, purchase leads and import them directly into your auto-responder and promote your auto-responder email address.

A link in your signature in the online forums, starting a blog and posting it there or using article marketing are some ways to promote your auto-responder email address.

If you are feeling creative you can write an e-book. Choose a specific theme and provide useful information and include your affiliate links throughout the e-book to generate sales. You want to write an e-book that is going to be read so stay focused on your theme and provide 20-30 pages of attention-grabbing reading as opposed to writing many pages of boring filler.

Do make sure you read the guidelines before posting in forums, specifically those relating to your signature, as many do not allow affiliate links. However, they do allow you to place a link to a blog or website. You could always start a free blog at Blogger.com if you do not want to run your own website.

Reviews are very popular so you could write and post one on your blog giving the benefits and features of the product along with your affiliate link and image of the product. You could also provide a sign-up form for your auto-responder. Then participate in relevant forums and provide the web address to your blog post in your forum signature.

Another very effective way to do affiliate marketing is article marketing, where you can add a link to your affiliate page or your blog post in the resource box. Again be sure to check the article submission guidelines as some directories do not allow affiliate links. Surfers who find your article informative and interesting will click on the links in the resource box to your affiliate page or blog post.

Although there are various ways to do affiliate marketing on the internet without a website the best way is to start an online affiliate home business with your own website. However, if that is not something you feel comfortable with then you can promote your affiliate links in the ways suggested above.

About the Author:
Cynthia Minnaar runs her own successful Online Affiliate Marketing Business full-time from home. She invites you to find out how you can start an online affiliate home business of your own.

Affiliate programs are a great opportunity of making money online. Affiliate marketing is so lucrative that you will find thousands of programs to choose from. With so many options available, choosing the best affiliate program for your business can sometimes take a bit of time and effort. In fact you may make a few mistakes before settling into the ultimate profit-generating affiliate partnership.

To find your suitable affiliate partner there are a few things you need to look for: –

The first thing to check out is the affiliate program’s terms of service. For instance, if you intend to use Google Adwords but your potential affiliate partner does not allow Google Adwords for marketing, signing up will not prove fruitful. Thus, reading through the terms and conditions of prospective affiliates is a must. Steer clear of any affiliate programs which do not publicly post their terms of service.

Also ensure that the potential affiliate partner has clear payment specifications. These specifics will help you find out how much money you can earn and how often the payments will come in. You may receive a fixed amount for every sale generated or a certain percentage. For instance, if you are to receive 10% of the sale, and you generate a sale of $100, your earning will be of $10. If the product is good there will be several such sales and the earnings will accrue.

Before agreeing to promote your affiliate programs product, it is very important to check out how their website looks. The way a website looks plays a very important role in how well you can earn money promoting their products or services. For instance, you visit the website of a possible affiliate partner and find out that the website is crowded with several advertisements. Affiliate Programs will generate income for you only if a sale is made. If a potential customer follows the lead from your website to the affiliate programs only to click on one of the advertisements there, you make no money in the process.

The above are starter tips to help you set up a profitable affiliate partnership. Ensure that your affiliate program website caters to products and services that are similar to your line of business. Furthermore, do not have more than 2 affiliate programs at the same time. Place the banners at strategic locations and make sure they gel in with your website and do not stand out as advertisements. Also, concentrate on good content, good color schemes and keep the background uncluttered. All this well help your visitors locate the affiliate add easily, and if they find it interesting, they all click on it. If this visit gets converted into a sale, you earn cash. Its simple, yet complicated. Caution is the key word. If you observe the above mentioned guidelines, you are sure to find success and make fast money.

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There is no doubt that affiliate marketing represents a massive opportunity to earn substantial money from the comfort of your own home and the only tools you need are your PC and broadband connection, however newbie affiliate marketers often achieve very little success if any to justify their efforts.

Although this is a business model that anyone can follow it is vital to understand the two key ingredients of affiliate marketing success; targeted traffic and pre-selling the product.

Targeted traffic is self explanatory but what do I mean by ‘pre-selling the product’?

Pre-selling the product simply means that instead of sending your traffic directly to the product’s sales page (what most unsuccessful affiliates do) your traffic is directed to a review page that provides an insiders view of the product.

Here are my seven simple steps to exploiting the affiliate marketing opportunity;

1 Choose the product you are going to promote. I focus on high value products in my niche preferably with a monthly recurring billing feature to earn monthly commissions. High profile products work best.

2 Buy the domain name “productnamereview.com” (replacing “product name” with the name of the product you are promoting)

3 create a free WordPress blog on the domain.

4 Review the product (ask the owner for a review copy) and post your review to your blog.

5 Create a video tour of the product (use a screen-shot video tool such as jing.com) and post the video to your blog.

6 Distribute the video to as many video sharing sites as possible (hey!spread will automate this for a small fee).

7 Digg your posts and video (digg.com)

It is important to post new material to the blog every couple of days for the first week.

These simple steps should result in your review site appearing on the first page of search results for your keywords (the product name).

High profile products (especially big product launches) attract a lot of search engine traffic from prospects who want to check the product out before buying, these people will find your review site, read your review and click your affiliate link to buy!

Because these seven simple steps to exploiting the affiliate marketing opportunity cost just a few dollars you can promote any number of products this way and once the initial set up work is done it pretty much runs itself!

For a free step by step guide with example screen-shots and earnings click the link below.