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A Total Beginners Guide To Affiliate Marketing

By: Jeffrey K Gross

Looking for a tried-and-true, scam free way to make money on-line? Then affiliate marketing might be just the perfect opportunity you are looking for.

Affiliate marketing, simply stated, is the process of promoting products and/or services that others have created, and generating commissions form any sales stemming from your promotion efforts. For many Web-based companies, affiliate marketers account for a lion�s share of their total sales, so they are eager to enlist new and motivated people to join their �sales force.�

Unlike sales in the off-line world, you don�t have to go door to door or make cold calls on the telephone to reach potential customers. In fact, there are a number of ways to earn affiliate commissions without ever having to actually talk to anyone at all!

That might sound impossible to you�selling without talking or dealing directly with customers. Understanding how affiliate marketing works will take a lot of the mystery out of the process.

Companies that have affiliate programs provide those who sign on as affiliates with a special URL to use when promoting their product. To obtain your own affiliate link, you complete a brief application with your name, address and other basic information, as well as how you would like to receive payment for sales. One of the fastest and most reliable methods of receiving payment on-line is through PayPal, which a lot of companies use to pay their affiliates.

The seller then provides you with your own unique affiliate URL or link. This is the link you use to steer people to the product. When someone who clicks your link buys the product, the company knows which affiliate earned the commission for the sale.

So how do you use an affiliate link to locate and send potential customers to the site where the product or service is being sold? A few of the tried-and-true ways to promote affiliate links include:

1.They build Web sites on subject matters that would interest the same sorts of people who might buy the product, making sure their affiliate link is easily available throughout the site. If, for example, the product they are promoting as an affiliate is a gourmet dog biscuit, they would develop sites that would attract avid dog lovers.

2.Creating a blog that focuses on topics that would interest the kind of people who might buy the product. Using the vitamin example again, write a series of blog entries regarding the benefits of various vitamins that include your affiliate link.

3.If they have some money in the budget for advertising, successful affiliates place classifieds or banners with their links on related Web sites or in e-zines (e-mail newsletters).

4.You can write articles on topics related to the product or service you are promoting and post them to one or more of the free articles databases on internet. Again, remember to include your affiliate link somewhere within or at the end of the article.

Finding affiliate programs is as easy as typing �be an affiliate� or �affiliate program� into any search engine. By doing so, you will soon discover the millions of opportunities out there for you to make money on-line through affiliate marketing.

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