Saturday, May 30, 2009

Can You Make Money using Affiliate Marketing?

By Robert Stout

If you are thinking about creating an internet business, Affiliate Marketing is a great starting point, even if you have no internet expertise or experience. As long as you can follow simple directions and have a desire to grow your business, you can make money in a short time.

Since there is so much buzz about Affiliate Marketing, you may be wondering how it works and if you can really make money using it. Simply, you bring potential customers to items of interest, and when they buy, a vendor pays you.

You get a fixed percentage of the sale and this ranges from 10 to 75 percent, and sometimes more. It's as if you are a manufacturers rep. You don't own the product, dont have to warehouse anything, and you are paid for your marketing effort. Here's how it works.

Say you have a parenting website loaded with good advise and parenting tips. People love your site, but after they read your excellent content and want more information, you don't have products to fill their needs. What an opportunity, but you can't capitalize on it.

You now see a need, know it can be filled, but just haven't had time to write your book or record that video series. What can you do to help your visitors as well as yourself?

The next step is to do your research and find a suppliers who can provide first class books, or cds, or videos that will give your clients what they want. If those suppliers have affiliate programs, all you do is apply and then put their products on your site or blog.

Once your accepted as an affiliate, you decide exactly which items to carry online. The supplier will give you product graphics to make your job easy. You add variety and color to your site. Visitors like what they see, choose to buy, and everytime they do, you make money.

That was a basic affiliate transaction. Expand that out to more vendors with more products. How many products do you want to recommend? There is really no limit here. It's up to you, your imagination, and your goals.

That's how it works. Attract visitors, give them great content, show them ways to satisfy their wants and needs, and get paid again and again.

Here are some main benefits to Afflilate Marketing. You can: Make money 24-7, sell what you want, no employees, no customer service requirements, and no admin.

From what you've read so far, can you see the possibilities?

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