Affiliate Marketing - Make Money

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By Zachariah H. Dennis


The ugly truth is that almost tens of thousands of people who get involved in a business opportunity become part of a huge market segment that's being misled, manipulated, and exploited.There seems to be no shortage of opportunities out there these days. Within the home business industry, you'll find all kinds of different 'flavors' of money-making opportunities, but generally speaking, there are 3 primary business models that most people are familiar with within the home business arena. I want to tell you about one of them: affiliate marketing business.
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In network marketing you are affiliating yourself with a company and you have the ability to earn multiple level of commission and it is mainly useful for creating a residual income. The advantage of network marketing is far more pronounced at this time than ahead of. It is also another way of earning money.

Work From Home - With unemployment at record highs and most people unhappy with their jobs, people are turning to other resources for extra monthly income.Start up Cost Are Minimal - An Affiliate Marketing Business is very cost efficient. On average, you can get started for under $100. Most professional marketers will have their own domain name, hosting package and autoresponder. All fairly inexpensive business necessities when starting an online internet business.No products to create - When joining an affiliate program, you choose the products you want to promote without all the hassles of actually having to create the product. As the affiliate you also do not have to handle the shipping and customer service issues.

The power of the internet - It works for you 24/7. You place ads on various marketing platforms, some paid some free and generate a sale which leads to a commission any time of the day or evening. This is the beauty of making money with affiliate marketing!There are thousands of great affiliate programs you can join and earn a resale commission when one of your customers buys their product. In most cases commissions can range from 25% - 50%. Some commissions are a one time deal (selling a book on Amazon) and some are monthly residual incomes. You might suggest an autoresponder to a customer/web visitor and they purchase from your link and you'll receive commission every month as long as they remain a customer.

Affiliate marketing is selling someone else's service or product for which you receive a commission. What makes it so attractive to marketers is that you don't have to worry about producing, updating and supporting the product or service. That is all completed by the product or service owner.As an affiliate, your job is to try to push as much converting traffic as you can to the sales page of the product or service. This way you benefit as you get your commission and the owner benefits as they make money too without having to worry about traffic etc.The majority of the big online stores have affiliate programs (such as Amazon) and the built-in affiliate tracking is why so many digital product creators use services like Clickbank or Digiresults. Anything you can buy on the internet probably has an affiliate program.The commission structures are different for all products and services. For example, Amazon only pay a small percentage for select items. Clickbank products tend to pay out between 50% and 75% of the total cost.This does not mean that promoting Clickbank products is necessarily more profitable though. We will discuss this further later on.

Price comparison sites are just giant affiliate sites. They show you the best price and when you click to jump to the cheapest site, you are using an affiliate link. This is how they make their money.The biggest benefit of being an affiliate is you don't have to worry about creating the product. Most products also require some sort of support after the sale has been made and once again, this is not the responsibility of the affiliate.All an affiliate has to worry about is getting quality traffic to the sales page and hoping that it generates sales (of which they earn a percentage).It is a symbiotic relationship between product owner and affiliate: one deals with the product, one deals with traffic.If the product or service has a recurring cost, such as a monthly membership fee, then the affiliate earns commission every month too.The most obvious obstacle is that other affiliates are also competing with you to drive traffic to the sales page.You cannot control the quality of after sales care and support that your traffic receives after they buy the product. Sometimes this can reflect badly on the affiliate.How Does it Work in Practice? To become an affiliate of a particular product or service, you need to get your own affiliate link.This link is what earns you commissions.Any visitor that arrives at the sales page from your link will earn you commission if they buy the product or service.

Links will pay you for all purchases on that site up until a set number of days after the initial click of the link. This number of days is called cookie length and it varies for each affiliate program. Some can be 60 days, some only 24 hours.Some systems, such as Digiresults or JVZoo, require that you apply to become an affiliate and must explain how you plan to promote a product. Others, such as Clickbank, allow you to be an affiliate for all products or services once you have joined up.Once you have joined an affiliate program, often the product owner will supply the affiliate with banner ads to use and emails to send out to lists. For the beginner this takes some of the work out of promoting the product.




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