Is Affiliate Marketing Good Business?

By Mary J. Edwards


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.

Affiliate Marketing Business - Yes it is a business and a very large one at that. This is one of the simplest ways to make money with affiliate marketing because there are hundreds, if not thousands of affiliate programs that you can sign-up with and begin making money immediately. Most of them are free to join. As an affiliate marketer, you market a particular company's product or service, and when you send them a customer (make a sale), you're paid a commission.Here's a quick example to make money with affiliate marketing... ever notice how many websites promote books from Amazon.com? Well, most of these websites are actually Amazon.com affiliates... and when someone clicks on one of their links from their site and buys a book on Amazon, the website owner automatically receives a commission directly from Amazon.

To understand affiliate marketing for beginners, let's look at the whole process. Say you are reviewing books on your website. You could review a book and then join an affiliate program such as Amazon which is a trusted online retailer. You place a link or image to that book you're reviewing along with your affiliate ID. If someone clicks and buys the book through your link, you make a commission. You will usually get some type of commission per sale such as 30% on each item that you sell. You don't stock anything, the site you sign up for as an affiliate ships the goods but you get a cut on the sale. You usually need to make a certain amount before the company deposits money into your bank account or sends you a check.

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.

Pay Per Press: Pay per press is most the common kind of affiliate marketing and advertising for affiliates. Pay per press is also known as Pay Per Click (PPC). It is apart from SEO and different type of marketing strategy. PPC is a search engine service different search engine use different tools like as Google use Google ad words and MSN use MSN ad center etc. It is a process of when any user click on any company product in your site than search engine pays you according how many clicks gets from that product.

With a commitment to the process of building yourself a platform visitors will enjoy you'll need to be patient as to when you should make product offers! People must first feel comfortable returning to your site and you must encourage them to do so by posting great information! Once you're able to build up a sizable following you'll find it much easier to promote affiliate products to them! At this point trust and loyalty exist with your readers so they'll be more receptive to your product offers!

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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