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© 2004 Rosalind Gardner - All Rights reserved
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There are HUGE benefits to promoting affiliate programs with
your own home-based Internet business, and I've come up with a
list of 15 great reasons to become an affiliate marketer.
Let's look at each reason separately:
1. No Production Costs - The cost to develop and produce a new
product is prohibitive for almost anyone who wants to start a
home-based business. With affiliate programs, production costs
aren't an issue. The product has been developed and proven - all
on the merchant's nickel.
2. Low Cost Set-up - Compared with building a brick and mortar
store, starting a home-based Internet business is relatively
cheap. You probably already have a desk, Internet-connected
computer and word-processing software, which is all the
equipment you may need.
3. No Fees for Joining or Licenses to Buy - I often compare
doing business as an affiliate, with distributing a line of
products in the real world. The biggest difference is that the
distributor must often pay for a license to distribute products
within a limited geographic region. Affiliate programs, on the
other hand, are usually free to join, and geographic market
reach is limited only by the affiliate's ability to promote his
web site.
4. Choose From Thousands of Products and Services - What isn't
sold online? That list must be shorter than the one describing
all that IS sold online. There are thousands and thousands of
affiliate programs selling every product under the sun. That
makes it easy to find products related to your current or
planned web site.
5. No Sales Experience Needed - When I started my affiliate
business, I had absolutely no sales experience. That wasn't a
problem, however. The companies I affiliated with provided
excellent marketing material. Using their sales copy, I was able
to get my first affiliate site up in less than a day.
6. No Employees - The largest expense of most businesses is
employee salaries. Although there might be times when you need
or want someone to work for you as an affiliate, it's doubtful
you'll ever have to worry about hiring full or part-time
employees. When you have a project you want to hire out, it is
easy to find specialists in every computer- related field who
can work for you from the comfort of THEIR own homes. You pay
only for the project, and never have to worry about ongoing
employee-related benefits and deductions.
7. No Expensive Merchant Accounts Needed - Setting up a merchant
account for any business is a time-consuming and costly
business. It's even more tedious for Internet businesses.
However, merchant accounts aren't a concern when you're an
affiliate. The merchant bears that cost and handles all
processing of payments. You never have to lose sleep over
potential chargebacks, fraud or losing your merchant account
when you're an affiliate.
8. No Inventory to Carry - Even if you live in a small one-
bedroom apartment, as an affiliate you can sell large items
without storage concerns.
9. No Order-Processing - Forget the problems associated with
collecting and storing names, addresses, credit card numbers,
etc. The merchant does all that!
10. No Product Shipping - The cost and hassle to prepare and
ship products to customers worldwide could be staggering.
Affiliates never have to worry about packaging supplies or
postal rates.
11. No Customer Service Concerns - Do you hate the prospect of
dealing with nasty people or customer complaints? Don't worry
about it! The merchant handles the snivelers.
12. Make Money While You Sleep - What other business allows you
as a sole proprietor to keep your doors open and keep making
money even when you take breaks or after you go home for the
night?
13. The World at Your Doorstep - The Internet is the world's
largest marketplace. You can drive more visitors to your online
store in a day, than many small-town merchants sees in his or
her brick and mortar business in a year.
14. Minimal Risk - The product you chose isn't making money?
Dump it. Take down your links and promote another! It's that
easy. There are no long-term contracts binding you to products
that don't sell.
15. High Income Potential - If you have a job, your salary or
hourly wage is probably pre-determined. Maybe there's not much,
other than working overtime, that you can do to increase your
income. With your own affiliate business on the Internet your
income potential is limited only by your desire, effort and
imagination.
There you have them - all the good reasons to start your own
online affiliate marketing business. Start today and benefit
from this incredibly simple, cost-effective business opportunity
known as affiliate marketing. The time is right, and the time is
now.
-- Article excerpted from Rosalind Gardner's "Super Affiliate
Handbook: How I Made $436,797 Last Year Selling Other People's
Products Online". Rosalind is the 'Net's most recognized expert
on successful online selling as an affiliate marketer.
Visit her site at: www.myinfobiz.net/affbprint
About the author:
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