Profit From Two Tier Affiliate Programs The Easy Way!

Before I show you exactly how to broker deals between product owners and marketers let me tell you exactly how this works. I'm going to be writing this course in simple to understand techno free language so as to cater for everyone of differing experience levels.

Online there is such a thing as an affiliate programme. This is where a site owner will pay an affiliate a commission for sending him/her visitors to their site who buy something. This can range from a few percent all the way up to 50% or more.

There is also something online called a two tier affiliate programme. Whilst some people may be aware of this they won't be aware of the specific way to go about making money from it and lots of money at that.

Here's a definition of a two tier affiliate program from Marketingterms.com.

"In a two-tier affiliate program the first tier of commission is the same as in a regular affiliate program. The only difference is the additional tier(s), whereby marketers also earn a commission on sales generated by people they referred to the program".

In plain English this means that let's say you signed up as an affiliate to promote a site selling golf clubs. Well you could promote that site yourself, and earn 50% of whatever sales you make through promoting it. You will be a first tier affiliate in this case.

On the other hand you could go out and locate other site owners with large email lists or web sites with good traffic (visitors to their site) related to golf, and you could introduce them to the site and explain they can make money from promoting the other sites golf clubs to their list/visitors. If this person then promotes that site after signing up through you, you get 10%, for example, of whatever they sell.

Read that paragraph again to make sure it makes sense.

There are two main ways the marketer you find can promote the site you are brokering the deal for:

1) The marketer can add a banner advertisement to their site. Each time someone clicks on the ad and buys a product from the site you are brokering for, you earn your commission. As this ad may stay on the marketer's site for years to come, you can earn a residual income for doing little more than a bit of research and sending an email!

2) The marketer may have a large email list of customers or leads interested in the market you are brokering for. They may then send out an email to that list promoting the product, and for every sale they make you earn your commission.

Again your work was nothing more than finding a site owner looking to sell more products, and then finding a marketer capable of selling more of that product.

So you haven't promoted a product, you haven't created a product, you haven't done any marketing. All you've done is found a site with a two tier affiliate program, found another site with a ready made large email list or decent traffic, and brought the two together through one simple email. Hard to do? Nope it's extremely easy as you're going to see.

Throughout this course I'm going to refer to the person we are brokering for as "the site owner" (ie:the person with the product and the two teir affiliate program) and the person we are looking to promote the products as the "marketer" (ie: the person with the web site and decent traffic or email list).

Important: At this point in time you're probably thinking to yourself "well couldn't the person who has the large email list just cut you out and go and sign up to the site themselves? Well yes, in theory. But for three reasons the majority of them won't do this because:

a) We're going be making it a lot harder for them to do that as you'll see and

b) It won't make any difference to their commission anyway. Whether they sign up through you, or directly through the site itself (and therefore "cutting you out" as it were) their commission will still be the 50%, whether they are a first tier affiliate like you are, or a second tier affiliate. This means that IF they understand the whole brokering business plan (and most won't due to the way we set it up) they probably wouldn't bother trying to cut you out anyway as it has no effect on their commissions.

c) We're going to be very, very clever. We're going to make it incredibly easy for them to promote, and show them how much money they can make from a simple email blast to their list or ten minutes adding a graphic to their site.

I hope you're starting to get a bit excited about this. Essentially what you're going to be doing is finding a large amount of money ready to change hands, and then falling in front of it. It really is that simple. You find someone wanting to sell more products, and you find someone with the capabilities of selling more of that product, and you broker a deal between them via one or two emails. It's simple, it's easy, and most importantly it can make you a lot of money starting from today.

Now that you know what a two-tier affiliate program is and how it works. I hope that you could see the amazing benefits and the possibilities open to you by using this terrific system.

Today we will be continuing with this by discussing the best sites to broker for.

I was stunned when I did some research on this and found that the only information available on this model was in courses of five hundred dollars and over

They are all discussing essentially the same model as we are using, with one or two slight differences.

I think the main reason for the cost is because either they a) Don't understand the key concepts behind the model or b) Think it too valuable to charge less than a big fat
fee. Thankfully for you guys I not only understand the concepts, I'm giving them to you for free!

One of the things many don't understand is that just signing up to any old two tier program isn't good enough. You need to find a site that:

1) Pays at least $10 per sales your sub affiliate makes. You always want to broker for American sites for one, and not only that at this commission rate you could
make some serious cash brokering deals with list owners of 1000 upwards.

2) Has a "cookie" tracking system for their affiliate program that means it doesn't matter if a sub affiliate signs up the first time they visit the site you are
brokering for, or the twentieth time, providing they don't clear their cookie cache you still get your commission for everything they sell.

3) The two-tier site provides ready-made marketing materials. This is the clincher. Think about it, you get an email asking you to promote a site and all you need
to do is spend a few hours writing your own email promo and sending it to your list.

Will a lot of people do that?

No. People are naturally lazy. However if they
get an email where all they have to do is sign up to the program (all of three minutes) and copy and paste a ready made email promo into their email blasting
software and hit send (five minutes) and they'll make cash do you think there'll be a lot of people happy to do that? You bet! Obviously I'd be foolish to say
everyone you contact will promote, but if you get a few percent of people promoting for you and making you cash out of thin air trust me you'll be laughing!

I want you to just try this once because the second you clinch one deal and make a few hundred for very little "work" you'll be hooked. So broker for a site
initially that you're interested in. If you like golf, broker for a golf site. If you're passionate about interior design, broker for an interior design site. The more
motivated you are to start this the quicker the cash will come in. (if you're stuck for ideas visit http://www.clickbank.com and click on "promote
products". Look around the marketplace for a niche market that interests you. Please note these do not have two tier affiliate programs)

Now it's just a question of finding a site related to your market. This may take a bit of digging around, but even if it takes an hour or so you can be brokering for
these sites for months to come so one hour research is a drop in the ocean compared to the profit you could be bringing in.

Go to Google and type in "[your chosen niche] two tier affiliate program". So if you wanted to broker for the golf niche you'd type in "golf two tier affiliate program"
(without quotation marks). Then it's just a question of searching through the results and finding a site with a two-tier affiliate program that matches the criteria I
have outlined already.

Sign up, get your affiliate link, then it's time to move on to the next stage.

We have discussed finding sites to broker for with two-tier affiliate programs. Now we are going to be looking for marketers to contact.

There's a few ways to do this. I'm going to give you a simple way that will enable you to find more potential deals to broker than you could ever have the time to
do so. We're going to find people with ready made email lists of people we know have an interest in the product we are brokering for. One email could
potentially make thousands.

Go to Google again and type in "(niche) ezine". Let me use a really obscure market to demonstrate how powerful this is. Let's say you were slightly crazy and
wanted to broker for a site on the subject of witchcraft. You'd go to Google and type in "witchcraft ezine" and hit Google search.

Try it. You'll see you get 77,800 results. Now obviously not each end every single one of these will be a site with a witchcraft ezine (or e-letter) but thousands if not
tens of thousands will. It's just a case of visiting the site, finding the "contact us" page and sending them an email.

The whole of the above process is just a bit of research. If you know how to surf the web you can do the above. If you also know how to send an email you
have all the qualifications to become an online Joint Venture Broker.

You want to send out single emails (strictly no spam. It's one email for one site owner that's it. As it is a business proposition this is not seen as spam.
However sending out one email to hundreds will be. Not only that you wont get anyone promoting for you I can guarantee that).

Your email should include:

1) A mention of the web site where you found
info about the ezine

2) If possible a mention of the ezine owners
name

3) Explain that by simply sending out an email or
adding a graphic to their site they can make
money. Also explain these marketing materials
are already provided so their work is minimal.

4) Tell them all they need to do is click on your
link in the email and sign up to the program
and they're all set to make some more cash.

5) Keep the email to under 500 words (people
are busy and don't want to wade through a
strangers huge email).

And that's it. Go through the list of sites with an ezine related to yours and send them an email. Keep track of who you are contacting, and occasionally log into the two tier site you are brokering for and see how much money you've made: )