Friday, June 12, 2009

Affiliate Income 101 " The Basics Of Earning Affiliate Income

By Steve Siemoreland

Lets take a look at the structure of affiliate marketing and how earning affiliate income can be earned easily, First off lets take a more detailed look at the steps taken by the top affiliates in the industry.

For anyone who is new to making affiliate income (newbies) as most like to call them, there are three simple steps to take and re-member, and here they are.

1. Always look in the magazines for well advertised products, that are hot in the market place.

2. Make sure there is away that potential clients can connect to the product thorough your own web site.

3. Soon as you have set up your affiliate link with the vendor, merchant, and a customer visits their web site thorough your link and buys the product you get paid a commission

So much for the review, now lets check out how to go about successfully completing one step after the other:

Earning Wealthy Affiliate Income Step 1 When you think about it, this step is made up of 2 more sub-steps: (1) finding what people are buying like crazy, and (2) who are the merchants catering to the hungry crowds clamor for the product or service.

There are literally hundreds of sources and ways to find whats selling like pancakes nowadays. And a surefire way to find out in less than 5 minutes is by looking to the best-seller section of online shops or malls like:

- Yahoo Answers - Google Alerts - Amazon.com - GoogleTrends.com - eBaypulse.com - And a lot more

The hot products can be a fiction book, a GPS unit, a mobile phone, the latest album of the newest American Idol champ " the list is endless.

Get this right and the second step is already settled since the online shopping malls like the above allow you to sell their products by whatever legal means and you get cold hard cash for it!

You just need to signup for their Affiliate program, and start advertising your special affiliate links around the web!

Earning Wealthy Affiliate Income Step 2 Affiliates serve as the bridge linking the customers and online merchants. Again, there are hundreds of ways to connect them. Here are some of the most popular ways to bridge that gap:

1. PPC Advertising can be profitable, if you know what you are doing. This can be done with the likes of Google, MSN or Yahoo. But a warning for those fool hardy to rush in with out knowing what they are doing. Since you pay for every click if you get your keywords wrong it can cost you a small fortune.

2. Article Marketing " This one is my favorite. Its totally free as you only have to write articles (w/ links to the merchant) and submit them to popular article directories like EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com

3. Forum Marketing " This can be extremely profitable. You go to the forums related to the product or niche and answer questions people may have on the product or service, But be careful you dont want to get accused of spamming so answer lots of questions before recommending a product.

Once you join the forum you get whats called a forum signature that you can use, while your answering the questions, your signature link is doing the marketing. Once you get the trust of the members, lots will click on your signature, which if you are wise will take them to your offer.

4. E-mail Marketing " E-mail marking can be very profitable if you target the market you are interested in. so long as you dont start spamming your list you can do well.

This involves having a list of e-mails who opted in to be a member of your group or subscribed to your newsletter. On your e-mails, you can sell as many products as you want since they agreed to it. Dont overdo it though as people would unsubscribe faster than you can say e-mail marketing!

Pick one that you think suits you best.

Earning Wealthy Affiliate Income Step 3 This step is the one that gets me most excited " After all watching the cash come into your bank account who wouldnt get excited ? If you have got all the steps right, there really isnt a lot to earning affiliate income step 3.

Do the work Sit back and wait for the checks to come thorough the post or into your paypal account.

Throughout the years, online marketers have devised earning-affiliate-income tools and techniques that allow them to finish these essential steps in no time and 10x faster. Once you have some seed money, Id strongly recommend that you invest them into these tools that would double the fruits of your effort.

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