Thursday, May 2, 2013

Affiliate Marketing: Making Money On The Net

By Saleem Rana


Most people who have been looking for a ways of making money on the net have heard about affiliate marketing.

Using this form of marketing, you will be rewarded a commission for sending someone to the website who buys a product.

The merchant pays the affiliate a commission for the sale and the transaction is tracked and recorded using a special link with an affiliate code.

There are a number of ways you can promote your special link. For example, you can mention it in an email letter or insert it into a product review on your blog.

Since this form of marketing has its challenges, many people give up. But every challenge has a solution. For instance, if you are only using paid advertising to promote a product, switch to a form of free advertising like article marketing.

However, if you can come up with an effective way of driving traffic to a website, it is almost like having money on autopilot because all the work has been done for you: the market research, the website, product delivery, and customer service issues.

Here are a few benefits of this form of marketing:

* You can start on little or no money. Your only expenses are related to advertising the website. While you can, of course, pay for advertising and save time, you can also choose to use your time to create advertising through forum marketing, video marketing, social media marketing, blogging, and article marketing.

* All the details of running a business have been done. This means there is no need to worry about creating a website, making a product, delivering it, and offering a payment processor.

* There is no limit to how much money you can make online. Most jobs require long hours and only offer a fixed pay regardless of how hard you work.

* The better merchants will provide you with everything you need to make a sale. This includes training in Internet marketing strategies and the use of promotional tools. The type of training and tools you get will depend on the merchant, but they are often enough to make regular sales.

* You have a global marketplace. Instead of a limited number of people in a geographical area accessing the merchant's site, you have an unlimited customer potential.

* You are essentially promoting a business that never closes. Since the website is online 24/7, this means that someone can make a purchase at any time from anywhere.

* You don't have to spend money to make money. There are many free and effective ways of promoting a website. Many of these ways are just as effective as paid advertising.

When you think of all these advantages, it only makes sense to add affiliate marketing to your Internet marketing.

You can even use affiliate marketing for making money on the net even if you have your own website and product. Simply refer other merchants to your existing customer base. Find merchants who are not competitors but who offer products that complement your own.




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