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.

So what is Affiliate Marketing and how can you make money from it? The short version: it's a marketing system where you attract visitors to a product or service, and once you have their interest, then you hook them up with the supplier of that product or service. When they buy, good things happen for you.

After your prospects click on the item to purchase it, your cash register rings. These commissions are different and change from supplier to supplier. The nice thing is, you're not concerned with warehousing, delivery, or admin work. You attract buyers and get paid handsomely for it.

Let's look at a classic example. Say you have a website on parenting, and have not written a book on the subject. You have an information website. Since you have no product to sell, your visitors may come to your site, get terrific content, and then leave the website with your good advise but nothing else.

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?

You apply to become an affiliate with, for example, A Big Bookseller. Once accepted as an affiliate, you put links to their products on your site. Lets say you have a web page dealing with setting limits for children and you want to provide additional information for your visitor.

Since you are an affiliate with the Bookseller, you can choose to promote any book in the inventory that deals with your topic. Next, you do your research, decide to put three books on your recommended list, and include those graphics on your webpage. When the visitor clicks on an image, goes to the supplier and orders the book, you get paid a commission and make money on that sale. Sound good? You bet it is!

Part of the fun of Affliate Marketing is how you can grow it from a seedling to a forest. How many products do you want to host? The sky's the limit. There is ample room for expansion into as many areas as you can handle. It's up to you.

It's truly a simple system. Once you have peoples' attention, you are able to give them valuable choices as they satify their need for information, goods, and services.

To recap the benefits of Affiliate Marketing. You have unlimited choice of products, get paid for your recommendations, need no inventory, no shipping, and no admin.

The world lies open for you, and as you can see, the only limit to this business is one's imagination.

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