The Power of Affiliate Programs for Making Money Online

The most asked question by all newbie online business people, ( ie bloggers, web page owners ect.) is HOW DO I ACTUALLY make money through my site?


Well the answer is fairly simple. Although simple in terms of reality for some of us (myself included) can be a daunting task. So i have decided to attempt to explain a little about how simple affiliate marketing is, as well as to explain a little bit about how it works as well.

Affiliate Programs & Profits.

The best part about affiliate marketing is:

1) You don't need your own website or blog

2) You don't need your own product.

3) You don't need ANY money to start.



Let me explain the 3 points above a little more in depth for you.

1) you don't need your own website or blog.

- to be an affiliate marketer you do not need a web page or a blog to be able to promote other peoples products. All you have to do is join a affiliate marketing site, and begin to promote their products via email, forums, discussion groups, article publishing sites. There are so many ways to promote affiliate products that don't cost you any money, nor do you have to own your own website or blog and have the hassle of looking after them.


2) you don't need your own product.

- the best part about affiliate marketing is that you don't have to create a product or write an e-book or anything like that, all good affiliate sites have loads of products that you can pick and choose from, and promote in so many ways.

- the way most affiliate sites work, is that you sign up to become an affiliate, then you choose the product(s) that you would like to promote, then the affiliate site will give you a special link for you to use in your chosen method of promoting. This link is what the affliate site uses to ensure that you get credit (paid) for anyone who clicks on the link that you placed in your promotion article, e-mail, forum, discussion group, And makes a purchase.



3) Don't need any money to start.

- with affiliate marketing you can start to market affiliate products without spending any money. There are so many FREE affiliate marketing sites out there that you can join for free and MOST of them are LEGIT.


My Favorite 3 are:

1)  http://www.cj.com/

2)  http://www.linkshare.com/

3)  http://www.clickbank.com/



For Commission Junction, log into their site and click on " Be a publisher" and follow the sign up procedure.

For Link Share and ClickBank, log into their site and click on become an affiliate, and follow the sign-up procedure.



The best part about these sites is that they are 100% free to join, and they have tons of products and things to promote that can pay you as high as 75% commission.


Now you are wondering how does one go about promoting these products without spending any money. Well the answer to that is simple.

- you have to be careful with e-mails, because unless you are absolutely sure the person receiving the e-mail wants to know about the product you are promoting, then you are spamming, and all affiliate marketing sites will cancel your account with them if you spam. So make sure before you send an e-mail that you know that the person wants what you are going to be sending them.

- another way is through forums. Search out different forums that deal with the product that you are promoting and join them. When you post to the forum, talk about the product that you are promoting and post your link for interested parties to click on to get more info. These forums for the most part are free to join as well.

- Another effective way to promote your affiliate products is to write and post articles on article directories. When you write and article about the product you are promoting you can also include your link in the article, and get traffic to your link that way. There are also tons of free article directories out there, that get allot of traffic to them.

a few of them are:

1)  http://www.ezinearticles.com/

2)  http://www.goarticles.net/

3)  http://www.ladypens.com/

4)  http://www.hubpages.com/


That's just a few that i know of, and some that i use as well. So there you have it. I hope this helps you out, whether you are just starting out, or if you have been trying for awhile and have not been to successful.



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