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| Affiliate Programs - The Fast Track to Wealth
Copyright 2005 Peter Dobler
Remember the day when you made the ultimate decision to change
your life? Yes, it was the day when you decided to start your
own home business. Gosh, I remember the anxiety when I uploaded
my very first web site, waiting for something to happen. It’s
like going onto a stage and performing in front of a large
crowd.
Ok, what has this to do with affiliate programs and how to make
money with them? Not much other than this is the primary reason
why people spending money online. Emotions are the number one
selling factor, period. And newbie web masters are loaded with
emotions.
When you started your home business, did you have a product to
sell? Neither did I. That’s why affiliate programs are perfect
for startup home businesses. In a nutshell, an affiliate sells
products from somebody else and keeps a commission from each
sale. An affiliate id responsible for all the advertising and
only gets paid whenever there’s a sale.
Take a break and think about this for a minute. Every day there
are thousands of people online, searching for products and ideas
to make money with. They know that there’s big money to make and
they are eager to get started. When you started your home
business it probably never crossed your mind to sell your own
products and to run your own affiliate program.
If you’re in the online business for a while with mediocre
results it is time to switch sides. Why should you carry most of
the risk with your advertisement spending with less than
satisfactory sales results? Not to mention that you’re at the
mercy of somebody else’s reliability to send you your hard
earned money.
If you don’t have a product to sell, go out there and search for
products with master resale rights. This will grant you the
exclusive rights to sell the product and keep 100% of the
profits. Selling the product through affiliates doesn’t violate
this, because you’re paying your affiliates for the advertising
efforts, the final sale is still made by you.
Of course there are a million products with master resale rights
available. Choose your product wisely. You don’t want to start
an affiliate program with products that are already over
marketed and maybe available for free or as part of a bonus
package. This takes some time and research, but it is well worth
the effort.
One source is to research the public domain sector and compile
your own information product. There are numerous publications
available on this topic. Another source is to join a membership
program that sells master resale rights products. Make sure that
they offer unique products and check their rules. Many offer a
trial membership, take advantage of this.
Once you have your product start your affiliate program. Don’t
join one of the many services that offer affiliate program
services for a monthly fee. Here’s why. Having thousands of
affiliates advertising your product is a great thing. Having
thousands of free links to your web site is priceless.
Create as many advertising samples for your affiliates as
possible. Have these samples point to different entry points to
your web site. Banners are the worst advertising tools, but
newbie web masters love them. They are easy to implement. What
do you care, you got your free link to your website. Make sure
that you use search engine friendly affiliate links. Affiliate
links with a “?” are recognized as such. Better are the
affiliate links that look like a directory structure. The easy
way to implement this is to use PHP as your language of choice.
Guess what will happen after a few months running your own
affiliate program from your website? Your own web site will
skyrocket in rankings on any search engine, because you got so
many links to your web site without having a link farm on your
own. This is every web masters dream. Now you have a choice. You
either aggressively promote your affiliate program or you
promote your products. Either way you win.
If you’re still skeptical, go to Google or Yahoo and search for
links pointing to your favorite affiliate program. Simply type
‘links:’ and your affiliate program’s domain name into the
search field. Make sure you don’t have any blanks. This will
return all the websites that are linking back to this affiliate
program. Check out the number on the right upper corner where it
says ‘Results 1 – 10 of about x’. x stands for the total number
of links. Now do the same for your website. Hmm, you got
nothing? Well, that’s the difference. I hope you see the power
of this by now.
Before you go out there and slab together your own affiliate
program. Do your homework and research as much as possible. You
want to get it right the first time.
Good luck to you all, Peter Dobler © 2005
About the author:
Peter Dobler is a 20+ year veteran in the IT business. He is an
active Real Estate Investor and a successful Internet business
owner. Learn more about wealth building methods at
http://www.thefasttracktowealth.com
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