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The_affiliate_model_ _how_to_make_money_as_an_affiliate
| The affiliate model - how to make money as an affiliate.
By Rob Rawson.
Affiliate programs are a very easy and effective way to make
money on the Internet right? so how do they work? Essentially,
affiliate programs are a way that you can promote other people’s
products and get paid a commission for promoting them. You can
get paid to promote almost any type of product and service on
the web. Most of the top companies on the web have Affiliate
Programs. Dell computers, Amazon, Expedia, AT&T, Chase bank,
Delta airlines and Walmart are just a few examples - did you
know that you can be paid a commission to sell products online
for any one of these companies? The best thing about affiliate
programs is that it is so easy to set up a relationship with any
one of these companies. Normally in business you would have to
spend weeks or months of meetings, proving that you are a
worthwhile partner to be able to do business with these sorts of
companies. However, an affiliate program allows you to get
commissions straight away as a little guy,without all the hassle
of meetings and forming that relationship. There are thousands
of affiliate programs that you can promote on the web. You have
so many choices that you could pursue. The key factors for
success with affiliate programs are the following: Choosing the
right affiliate programs. If you choose certain affiliate
programs you will likely only be able to earn a small income
because their payouts are small. Other affiliate programs have
very large payouts and high earning per click (EPC). If you
don’t know what earning per click (EPC) is, it is the average
amount that affiliates earn from each click to the site that
they are sending money to. Some networks express it in earnings
per one hundred clicks.
For example you could say an EPC of $57. This means you make $57
on average for every 100 visitors that you send to a site or 57
cents for sending one visitor to the site. Generally I am
looking for affiliate programs with an EPC of $20 or more, which
means I am making 20 cents per visitor. Usually, I focus on
programs that have an EPC of $100 or $1 per visitor. When you
are earning $1 per visitor you have potential for a lot more
profit. The second critical factor is getting the traffic to the
affiliate program. We are going to talk about this more in other
issues of the Ecourse. The third factor is being able to
pre-sell to the visitors of your site. Let’s say that you have a
website where you discuss different products and services, a
comparison type of site. You can recommend the product that you
think is most beneficial and then when people click through to
the site after your recommendation, they are much more likely to
buy. How do you find good affiliate programs? One easy way is to
go to all of the affiliate networks and sign up for affiliate
programs there. The major affiliate networks like Commission
Junction have thousands of affiliate programs that you can join
in all sorts of categories. You can find a listing of the
different affiliate networks at:
http://www.profitpuppy.com/affiliate-networks.htm It also
depends on what type of strategy you are pursuing with affiliate
programs. There are many different strategies and we can’t go
into all of them now, we’ll talk about them in detail in some
later issues of the ecourse. However here are a few strategies
to get your brain ticking over with ideas: You can promote
affiliate programs directly using Google Adwords. You simply
promote the program by creating your own ads. This is the
quickest way to make money on the Internet as you can get
started and in 1-2 hours have some ads up that are making you
money. However, it is getting more and more difficult to make
money with this strategy as there are too many people doing it.
As with anything in life, if something is too easy to make
money, everyone will start doing it and it then becomes more
difficult because there is more competition. One strategy is to
focus on a particular niche area … let’s say you decide to do a
site on car rentals. You could then join all the affiliate
programs to do with car rentals. You can find many of them
through the major networks, but you might also need to search on
Google for something like – ‘car rental affiliate program’.
Another strategy is to build lots of little mini sites on the
Internet focusing on different keyword phrases that people are
searching for and get free search engine listings in Google and
other search engines. This is a great strategy because the
traffic that you get is free. This is general called Search
Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is great and can make you a lot
of money but it is also very tricky. It is not easy to get to
the top of the search engines. It requires a lot of knowledge,
and quite a bit of effort. Don’t think that you can just read a
book and do it … normally it is going to take months of
dedication to get there. That’s a few ideas, but whatever area
you are involved in on the Internet you should definitely be
promoting affiliate programs. Even if you sell your own product
online you should still look into affiliate programs as a back
end profit centre for your business. Affiliate programs are one
of the quickest ways to make money on the Internet. Over the
next few issues of the Ecourse we are going to talk about other
strategies of using affiliate programs. If you want a free email
course on affiliate programs you can send a blank email to:
tamsaffiliatemarketing@sitesell.net This email course is written
by Ken Evoy and it is this course that actually got me started
in marketing on the Internet. http://www.profitpuppy.com
About the author:
info@profitpuppy.com
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