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24 February 2010

How to Use The Power of Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing? Will it lift your business to the next level? Or is the Gold Rush?

A wise man once said that most people take their project to the point where it seems impossible and then give up. This is no time to give up, because two additional steps could see success!

You get up every morning - rush to your computer - you do not have a sale! Did you realize what a great marketplace you create your good, and unless you tell them you are open for business, they will not come?

Your site as great (if you have one), but did you know, like us in our early days, advertise it in FFAs, Free lists and safe lists? If you did, you now realize these lists contain only others wishing to sell what they have and have not the slightest bit interested in your offer! Not fall for "We will place your ad in front of 2,000,000 people." So what is all this to do with the Power of Affiliate Marketing?

Are you creating your own Gold Rush? You've got a great product whether it is a hard product, service or a digital product, and you have a few visitors, and maybe you get a few bob a month. If you add five or six Partner products allied with your own, your site, what do you have? ELECTIONS. The number of visitors goes up because you have link back to your site, which means search engines for you more.

Affiliate programs must be consistent with your own product, but you will have a greater variety to offer visitors. Imagine the 'will' of those you are trying to interest - is not needed. People always buy what they want, not what they need.

Even if you have not been a product of your own, or even a website, you will make money with Affiliate programs. Solving people's problems, and you're on a winner.

Some of the highest paid net-workers do not have a website or a product of their own, but they do a whole stack of money by offering products of famous companies to a receptive audience. They have created their own Gold Rush through affiliate programs.

What are you doing? Wondering "Where can I find such products?" Well, there are many sources of 'product finders', but you can do a lot worse than to look at what the Affiliate Programs on Clickbank - approximately 10,600 products and sites!

But make a thorough investigation of these programs you think will make you money. Look for a program that pays at least 50% commission, and if you find one with a two-tier commission structure, yes, it's great because it means you get a commission on sales of affiliates that you introduce.

So what are you looking for when you investigate? See how many affiliates each company has. Do not be intimidated by the fact that there is a lot. Its good. It means that the product / s sells well. How much commission is paid to the partners? If you have a Google toolbar (and if you have not, go to Google and download one - they're free) you can find out a lot about a company by typing their name into the search box. And will throw a lot of information including how many backward links are to the company. Important? We must think about it, because search engines such as backward links to high ranking.

Proper investigation will take some time, but you will find out a lot about these companies. Can you see yourself making money with a product after you have studied it. Is the product something people want - not need!

There is no doubt in my mind that affiliate programs are a way to earn big money online, multiple income streams from 5 / 6 Partner progs. Not just one check a month, but several.

Nevertheless, you can not just become a partner and expect the money to roll in. If this is your way of thinking - to get another job! But if you're willing to put themselves in the right effort and look to the future with confidence and determination, you will win.

Thomas Edison said - "What you want to show in what you do"

Advertise your software is easy, but it is the subject of another article - "Do not pay for advertising." Finally, we invite you here not to use FFAs, safe lists and the like. They have never worked for us and they will not be for you.

Note that what we have said. These thoughts and links will take you where you want to go.

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