Affilate Marketing - Making Money Selling Other People's Products Online

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Affiliate Marketing, your key to financial freedom

 

Hi Folks, there's an old saying that goes something like "any fool can take advice, but only the wise will profit from it" and it couldn't me much truer when it comes to affiliate marketing. Let me explain, I've been an affiliate marketer for nearly two years now and earn around $3200/month (us) from some of the best affiliate programs around.

My brother-in-law on the other hand has been watching and admiring me for those two years. Every time we get together he has a habit of asking me about internet marketing and how he can do it. And every single one of those times I tell him the exact same thing I'm about to share with you folks. My point here is that all the advice in the world isn't going to help him make a single penny if he is not willing to act upon it. Therefore folks, I can only hope that if you truly wish to make money on the internet from affiliate marketing, take my advice but more important than that, ACT ON IT.

What is Affiliate Marketing and how can it help me make money online?

For the benefit of those of you new to internet marketing or possibly  exploring the opportunity to make some extra income on line from your spare time I'm going to explain the concept of affiliate marketing. In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is the marketing of someone else's product in exchange for commission income. To take this a step farther, let me illustrate this with an example.

For example let's say that you love "golf", you live it, you breathe it, and you know all there is to know about golf products such as clubs, balls, etc.  Now you would like to share this knowledge with the world and at the same time make some additional revenue to support your expensive golf habit.

The only problem with your perfect plan is that you have nothing to sell, only years of knowledge to share. This is where affiliate marketing comes in. For example, let's say that throughout your experience you've found certain brand golf balls or clubs better than others, you could set up a informational website on golf and contact the manufacture of the products that you like so much and sign up for their affiliate program.

Then you can market your favorite golf clubs on balls on your website and every time your site visitor follows your advice and purchases your recommended product, you earn a certain percentage of the selling price as affiliate income.  There are a number of products in promote on my website which pay anywhere from $25 - $175 per sale, and believe me this adds up quickly. I was actually able to take my family on a trip to Mexico this year instead of just saying "hey we'll do it next year".

I don't know anything about websites or affiliate programs?
  

Neither did I. When I first started the only thing I knew was how to type and surf the internet. And quite frankly that's all that I needed to get started. The single most important thing needed to make it in the affiliate business is desire, knowledge will be acquired. As you get involved and start building your "business", notice I didn't say "building a website", because website is just one component of the affiliate business process, you will read, listen to audio, watch what others are doing and slowly but surely accumulate all the required knowledge to make money online.

Like anything else in this world, things often seem much more difficult than they really are and almost always it's because our preconceived notions make them difficult. The actual process of affiliate marketing couldn't be simpler, it's as easy as one, two, three; build a site, recommend products, collect pay cheque. It's not rocket science people; in fact, it is one the most viable ways for average Joes like you and I to make some extra cash to enjoy life instead of just trying to make ends meet.

Does it cost a lot of money to start an affiliate business?

No. In fact the major reason for the popularity of affiliate business is low cost, high return model. The biggest cost associated with affiliate business is your time. Therefore, it is ideal if you are a student, unemployed; need an extra source of income, stay home mom or dad. If you can afford to spare 6-8 hours per week, you will have no problem generating $1000 plus a month in a matter of months. I received my first affiliate cheque ($215) after 2 months and have gradually built that up to nearly $2000/mo in year and half.  You too can do it.

Other than your time, there is cost in terms of dollars. The most costly (not any more) used to be the cost of hosting your website on a web server. This used to range anywhere from $300 - $500/year. However things have changed drastically in the past year; you can now get a hosting plan as little as $100 - $300 /year and it includes your domain name registration (the address of your web site, like www.mywebsite.com).

In terms of affiliate programs, your cost is zero. There is absolutely no reason why anybody should charge you money to promote their product. Joining an affiliate program is as simple as going to the manufactures website and filling out a form with you name, address, and who to make the cheque payable to information and you are on your way. The affiliate program sponsor will assign you a special link, sort like your own unique id so that they know who to credit the commission to on a sale. You simply copy and paste the link on your website.

All affiliate programs will assign you a login id and password so that you can easily access their severs from your web browser to check your stats. Your Statistics will include things like, how many visitors came from your web site, how many sales you made, your commission, which web page the visitor came from and which country the visitor came from. There are many more stats available but these are of the most interest to you. Most affiliate programs will pay you bi-weekly or monthly.

How can I get started?


 

 

 

If you are serious about making money online to supplement you existing income or just want to make a little (or a lot) extra then I would highly recommend that you check out www.makingyourricher.com . This site is one of the most comprehensive sources for affiliate information. The information provided is highly accurate and backed by years of affiliate research. There is an initial cost of joining the site around $70, but what you get in return is far greater.

Some of the benefits you get include:

·   Easy to follow step by step guide to affiliate marketing; which makes the process of launching your website to making your first sale a snap.

·   Free professional web site templates; feel free to look around on the internet a decent template costs around $60. However with www.Makingyouricher.com it's all included in the initial purchase price.

·   Comprehensive list of top paying affiliate programs; This folks is the difference between making thousands per month or few bucks. They have exclusive rights to market products paying as much as $175/sale. This can really pad the pay cheque.

·   Free Content; this is by far the biggest benefit. Reason being, most people do not know what to write especially if they don't use the product. However there is a catch. You have to take the content and reword it so that it's different and unique from any other copy. This takes about 15 minutes.

·   Free Web Hosting; For ONE FULL YEAR, you get free web hosting.
·   Exclusive Members Area; Folks there are hundreds of people like me willing to share there knowledge to help you succeed. I've been there and done that and it wasn't that long ago.

 

 The interesting thing is that www.makingyouricher.com has made the money making process on the internet through affiliate programs ridiculously easy. It wasn't always this easy. When I started; I bought a template for my site ($60); I paid for hosting ($100/year); I did research and spend hours upon hours writing good content.

Folks, I can't make you want to make money, which has to come from you. All I can do is provide assistance and guidance to make the process of generating extra income through affiliate programs easy.

Ps. If you have any questions regarding affiliate programs or how to make money online or you would like a further explanation of what I have covered here, Please feel free to contact my via e-mail. Use the "contact" link on the top right hand side of this page. I'll return your e-mail within a couple of days.

 

Advantages of joining an affiliate program

There are several advantages to joining an affiliate program. First, you don't need to make, store, distribute any products. Therefore you do not have any upfront costs associated with all of those things a business must do. Second, you have no hassle of dealing with customers or shipping products or tracking client orders. All you have to do is sit back and refer clients to the manufactures website and watch the sales roll in. Last but not least, you do not have any employees to contend with or motivate except yourself.

 

Thanks and happy money making with an affiliate business.

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