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The Power of Affiliate
Marketing
By
Aurelius Tjin
If you’ve been around for sometime now on
the internet, you would have heard of the
term Affiliate or Associate programs.
Affiliate programs are programs organized by
companies, individuals business owners etc.
that allow an individual to earn money known
as commissions by just referring people to
their website. If they make a purchase, you
earn a prearranged percentage of the whole
amount of money paid by the client or
customer.
The beauty of this business is the fact that
you do not need so many things like you do
in creating your own website and maintaining
it. All you need is just an affiliate
program directory and the means to market
and advertise the products so people can see
them and buy.
There are many forms of affiliate marketing
and their directories. If you want to look
for them yourself, type the keyword
“Affiliate marketing programs”, “affiliate
programs”, “associate programs”, “referral
programs”. Starting with just this list will
do for now.
On viewing the search page results, you’ll
find there are lots of programs like that
online. In fact so many they are virtually
limitless. This is where your focus now
comes into play. What form of market are you
interested in? For instance, if you are
interested in weight loss, you could type
the keywords “weight loss affiliate
programs”, “weight loss associate programs”
etc.
Fortunately, some directories have already
been created to this effect. The following
websites are places where you can get lots
of affiliate programs. What’s more, it
doesn’t cost a dime to join most.
1. http://www.clickbank.com ClickBank
2. http://www.cj.com Commission Junction
3. http://www.shareasale.com Share a Sale.
4. http://www.associateprograms.com.
Associate Programs.
These are just a few of the databases you
can find containing thousands upon thousands
of affiliate programs. There are different
types of affiliate programs:
1-tier affiliate program:
In this situation, all you do is earn
commissions from just one transaction. So,
if the visitor you directed to the website
buys as a result of your directing him,
you’ll earn from him only once. If he is
supposed to be paying a monthly fee, the
affiliate marketer will only make money just
once after which every other sales made by
the individual he referred to the merchant
wont earn him any money. Most products
currently selling belong to this group and
usually sell just once to the consumer.
2-tier Affiliate Program
Unlike the one-tier program where an
affiliate earns just one time, you could
make your commissions twice usually from
someone who signed up to be an affiliate
through your recommendations.
Lifetime Affiliate Program
This type of affiliate program is the type
that produces what is called residual
income. All an affiliate marketer has to do
is sign the customer up once, and as long as
the customer keeps paying the affiliate gets
a cut of the money.
In truth, affiliate marketing is a very easy
way of making money. You do not need a
website to make any money. All you may need
is just a blog which you might decide to
leave hosted on the blog service’s host and
getting the product in the face of consumers
who will be interested in what you are
offering them.
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