Affiliate Programs - The Fast Track to Wealth

Released on: March 3, 2008, 10:16 pm

Press Release Author: gurpreet singh/technoflicker

Industry: Small Business

Press Release Summary: Remember the day when you made the ultimate decision to
change your life?

Press Release Body: 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 me.
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.


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