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Folks you can make good money promoting Affiliate Programs especially if you don’t have a product of your own but you need to be really careful when choosing the product to promote.
Make sure it’s a quality product delivers what it promises. It’s a smart thing to see if you can get a review copy of the product so you know exactly what you’ll be promoting.
Also make sure you research the company or individual so you know that you’re going to get paid. But like what I said it can bring a very good income from time to time.
See the screenshot below this is my recent promo that I did for a friend of mine, You see got a few commission sales! Well after you check it out! read the article that I wrote 4-5 years ago and it’s still valid to this day!
Affiliate Program is a ground floor opportunity. All you have to do is send visitors to your affiliate web site by placing a textlink or banner on your website and receive a commission on each sale, without the complication and expense of selling anything yourself.
Instead, you earn a commission for producing a transaction. Affiliate programs, also known as Referral Programs, Associate Programs, Profit Sharing Programs or Reseller programs, give affiliates the ability to create an online business selling thousands products and services.
One of the first affiliate programs was run by the mega-bookstore, Amazon.com. They still have the largest base of affiliates on the net although they may not be the best affiliate program for many! with over 600,000 web sites being affiliated.
Affiliate programs are generally offered by sites selling goods or services, although some affiliate programs reward other types of transaction such as getting a visitor to sign up for a free newsletter, or a download.
Some affiliate programs pay per lead rather than per sale, in other words, you bring them a prospective customer and they pay a fixed "finder’s fee" for the chance to market to that customer.
This is a typical arrangement for affiliate programs in the insurance, real estate and credit card industries, for example:
Types of Affiliate Programs
Pay per sale: If you refer a visitor to the online merchant’s site and if visitor makes a purchase you get a percentage of the sale as commission.
Pay per lead: You get paid a one-time fee for generating a lead for the merchant. Usually you get paid $2-$5 if the visitor you referred fills out an application.
Pay per click: You get paid for every visitor you send to the online merchant regardless of any sale or purchase. Usually companies pay $0.05 – $0.15 per click.
Two-Tier: You get commission on direct sales you generate and also you get commission on sales generated by affiliates you recruited. Usually companies pay 25% commission for direct sales and 5% for sales generated by your affiliates.
Bounty: You get a one-time finder’s fee payment for the visitor you referred. You will not get commission on any future purchases that customer makes.
The Benefit of an Affiliate Program
Is that you just need to drive traffic to your affiliate site. Write a few articles and provide a few links.
You don’t need to find or deal with brokers, wholesalers, inventory, process orders, shipping & handling, customer service, tech support, handle returns, warranties, employees, etc-
An affiliate doesn’t even have to be present, your site will keep earning money while you’re sick, on vacation, or just doing something else. Another advantage of being an affiliate, is that you do it from almost anywhere in the world..
How The System Works?
When you join an affiliate program, you will be given a specially formatted URL (Links) that you should use to link to the affiliate provider’s site. This will enable the affiliate provider to monitor traffic to your site and pay according to the type of affiliate program.
Many affiliate programs pay a commission based on a percentage of the revenue generated by purchases made by visitors coming from your website.
For example; if you’re participating in an affiliate program that offers a 25% commission and you send a visitor who purchases US$100 worth of products, you’ve just earned US$25 in commissions.
The commission rate itself can vary from 20% up- to 50%+ in the case of intangible products such as eBooks or website subscriptions.
Affiliate programs vary widely in terms of overall quality, reliability, commission , statistics, the amount of help that the merchant site offers in marketing the products or services it sells, and so on.
By thoroughly understanding an affiliate program, you’ll minimize the risk of not getting paid – and maximize your potential earnings.
That’s it and feel free to comment! (Don’t be Shy!) also when you comment and you have URL to your site it will show on the sidebar of this blog and guess what you’ll get some of my traffic!
Please do me a huge favor if you know anyone that can benefit from this information please forward this post by using the SHARE THIS below, I’ll promise you they’ll thank you for it!
Till Next Time and God Bless You!
Albert Hallado
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There are many types of Affiliate Programs, but the ways you promote them almost is the same. Traffic of your site or blog is one of the key succeed with Affiliate Programs. Good post..Keep it up
To your success,
michael
MakeIntellect.com
Hi Michael,
Hey Thank you for stopping by and I appreciate your comment!
Albert
Morning Albert! (At least it is for me.)
Albert your right on the money here. Affiliate promotion is the next best thing to having your own products to market. As a matter of fact some marketers Only Promote sites they are affiliates for.
You see they are really time savers for a marketer. All they need to do is promote a link of a Hot Selling Product or service and the sales come in very fast.
The best affiliate marketers know they need to sweeten the pot a little to get an edge on every one else who is promoting. What I mean by that is when they promote a Hot affiliate site (one that is really selling like hot cakes) they need to make their offer very special so to get the sale.
How do they do that? They offer a Special Bonus to those who purchase through their link. This may be almost anything! But most of them offer a few products that in some way go with the main offer they are promoting.
If your readers are interested in doing this also, they can get a ton of products to use for their Special Bonus Offers from my BSE site. http://Best-Seller-Ebook.com has over 300 products contained within the members area.
All they need to do is search through to find a few products that go along with the content of the offer they are promoting and upload to their website. When someone buys through their affiliate link they send them to their site to collect the bonus they have for them.
Extra value will always win over the customer.
Talk to you later buddy.
Ed
Hi Ed,
Hey Bro. thank you for the great comment and also for the valueble link for my readers http://Best-Seller-Ebook.com take care Bro.
Albert