Affiliate Programs... Who's Really Making The Money?

By Gillian Tarawhit

There will be a million and one affiliates out there who will tell you that the affiliate program they promote is going to be the best one for you.

But have you considered who is really making the money and who gains the most out of affiliate programs.

Let's take a step back and look at the AFFILIATE.

What exactly is the role of the affilate?

* The sole purpose of the affiliate is to PROMOTE the product and/or service

What are the benefits of being an affiliate?

* Get paid a minimal commission that is regulated by the owner of the product/service

In short, As an affiliate it is your responsibility to make someone else rich whilst doing all the hard work. You take on the expenses of advertising, you are the one who usually misses out on subscribers if you haven't first made them your client before they buy the product/service you are promoting.

And all this for what??? Maybe $20 per sale if you are really, really lucky.

You also need to remember that when you are an affiliate, YOU are not the only person promoting that very same product/service.

So what will make your offer any different to someone else who is promoting the exact same product, usually using the same sales technique, offering it at the same price.

To be in the top 5%, which is the amount of affiliates who make more than $100.00 per month, you need to first have a really good, clean, targeted subscribers list of more than 50,000 subscribers, know exactly how to gain targeted traffic, and have a huge advertising budget.

For the other 95%, the only way you are going to make alot of money from and affiliate program is to OWN YOUR OWN.

It really isn't as hard as you might think to set up.

So in conclusion, the best AFFILIATE PROGRAM, obviously is the one you OWN.

About the Author:

Gillian Tarawhiti, is Founder and CEO of Community Training Centre, an Internet Marketing firm providing Online Training and Support to the new and not so new netpreneurs. Gillian is also the author of eBay Billion Dollar Goldmine and the creator of the Multiple Ripple Effect System © 2004.

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3 Quick Steps to Promote Affiliate Programs and Earn Bucket Loads of Affiliate Program Commissions

Internet businesses are on the rise. Year after year, millions flood to into the online scene and to say that the internet is an expanding market is a huge understatement.

And that's a great thing. Because it only means that for people like you and I who run business online have an ever increasing market to sell to.

For this reason, there are many people who are eager to start their own businesses online. However, for many of them, they don't know where or how to start.

There are just so many opportunities and options on the Net that it causes people to be just paralysed by the sheer overwhelming range of possibilities.

One of the quickest way to start making money online is by earning affiliate program commissions through good old affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is about selling other people's products and services online and getting a cut of the sale for your efforts.

The great thing about affiliate marketing is the fact that you don't need to create your own product or offer your own service to make money online.

There is no upfront investment of time or money in order to get involved.

Think about it. If you were to get involved with an network marketing opportunity, you'll first have to buy into their products and business system before you can get started. You would have to cough up money upfront.

If you were to sell your own product online. You would have to invest hours upon hours creating and package it in the first place. That's tons of time that you have to cough up upfront.

But for affiliate marketing? You can get started right away! Without spending a single cent or second before doing so!

Of course, in order to promote an affiliate program and make sales, you do have to invest either time or money or both for you to start making sales and earning money.

Here's 3 quick steps to help you make cool affiliate program commissions right away:

1. Choose A Profitable Affiliate Program To Promote

You can go to an affiliate program directory such as www.associateprograms.com/directory and browse through what is listed there. There are thousands of affiliate programs listed there for all sort of products and services in all sort of niches from real estate, to gardening, to home entertainment.

2. Create An Attractive Landing Page Or Squeeze Page For The Affiliate Program

Many people who try affiliate marketing promote affiliate programs by driving traffic directly to the merchants' websites. While this is may appear to be the fastest and easiest way to do promote affiliate programs, it is far from the best. I realized that when I link directly to the merchant's site, my conversions are much lower than when I use a landing page to presell the affiliate program. And if you really want to optimize your marketing efforts, use a squeeze page instead.

3. Drive Traffic To Your Landing Page Or Squeeze Page

Choose one method of traffic generation and use it to drive as much traffic as you can to your landing page or squeeze page. There are dozens of strategies and approaches that you can use when it comes to traffic generation. Some of them like pay per click advertising and ezine advertising will require you to spend money upfront in order for you to get traffic to your webpage. However, if you don't want to spend money on promotion, you can stick to free traffic generation methods such as article marketing, forum marketing, and marketing through social networking platforms such as Facebook. Just choose one, and work at it until you start getting the traffic.

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AFFILIATE PROGRAM-WHAT IS IT?

Have you ever been to a site that persuaded you to order it's product or ask you to drop your name and email address, promising to send you freebies or skillful tips. Such sites could be a merchant site or an affiliate site. Most affiliate design their site to appear as the merchant site and this can be called expertization.

Affiliate program-What is it? Earning a commission on a referred product or marketing a product or products for another person in order to earn a commission is termed AFFILIATE PROGRAM. While affiliate marketing can be define as marketing a publisher's product.

Affiliate marketing is an interesting and lucrative business to start with online. If you are a newbie online, you can start with affiliate business as you are not bothered of creating your own product rather you advertise and market a publisher's product and earn a commission.

Interested persons in this business, below are places you can affiliate product to market:

CLICKBANK-Have over 10,000 digital products. Register with them, get your unique address( it will be provided for you by clickbank). Go ahead to market and earn a commission.

COMMISSION JUCTION-Where publisher's advertise their products for any interested affiliate to pick up.

Above are two good ones to start with but yet you can head unto www.google.com and make a search on ''affiliate product'' to get more sites that enlist merchant products for marketing.

You have just learn how to outsource affiliate products to market, stay in expectation for the next post on this site to read the necessary things needed to start this program(affiliate marketing) and run it to success.

REMAIN EXPECTANT.