Monday, September 12, 2005

I LOVE Affiliate Marketing!

Several months ago I became intrigued with the niche of affiliate marketing.

"Affiliate Marketing is a widespread method of promoting a website, in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber and/or customer provided through his efforts. It is a modern variation of the practice of paying finder's-fees to individuals who introduce new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (Pay-per-click), registrant (Pay-per-lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay-per-Sale)."

If you've been online for any length of time, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. AM is a simple way to generate part-time income by doing part-time work. The best part about it is, you don't have to own your own product to make money with it!

I got serious about this industry and started researching methods to put "apply" to my existing websites as well as create new ones with other peoples products. This term is gently called, "OPE," other peoples efforts. They do all the work creating the products and services and all I have to do is market them to make a certain percentage. Cool!

I'll tell you exactly how I did it. I immediately got a copy of Rosalind Gardner's, "The Super Affiliate Handbook." Rosalind has made hundreds of thousands of dollars with Affiliate Marketing. Her handbook is simple to read and she basically takes you step by step to learning how to duplicate what she's already done. I also have learned quite a bit about Clickbank, "an online billing and marketing service for the development of affiliate programs." There are thousands of services to decide exactly what you would like to market. You'll even find services that compliment your existing business to offer to your visitors and subscribers.

Just recently, I ran across an incredible tool called, "Affiliates Alert." It's free software that enables you:

  • Find new affiliate products, those that have just been released.
  • Find unexposed products, those that are already in the market, but don't have many affiliates and don't sell many copies.
  • Find overexposed products. Don't waste your time and money in promoting them. Those products already have too many affiliates, sell too many copies, and sometimes you can even see that their sales are declining!
  • Find all the products with a specific keyword and/or from a certain category or niche, and let me have one single list of all these products (without working too hard to find them!)
  • Shows you the affiliate margin, the percent you would earn from every sale.
  • Gives you immediate access to the affiliate product sales page, so you can read and evaluate its potential right away.

Affiliate Alert's is free for now. Jump in and get your copy right away - FREE.

If you like generating passive income, Affiliate Marketing is definitely the way to go.

For a free (one time) email consultation, send your name, website url, email and your questions to: affiliates@christians-in-business.com

P.S. "Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune." Jim Rohn