You see here and there every day, articles about how to earn thousands of
dollars from affiliate program. You heard how some guys are making a kill
monthly from affiliate business on the internet. You've also seen thousands of
eBooks that promises to teach you how to make it big from Affiliate program!
You wonder, all these - is it true or how can I go about it?
Well, first of all what is online affiliate program? Online affiliate is
a program design to make business between merchants and web marketers. A web
merchant creates products, put it for sale, keep the inventory, and handle
transactions and shipments if needed. Affiliate enters into agreement with the
merchant, promote the products in anywhere he could, and get commission per
sale on certain percentage.
That's the description of what we called affiliate program on the
internet. Yes! you can make money from this business - Good money for that
matter. There are some guys who have actually made good sum from the business,
but the question still remains; how do you earn too from affiliate?
I have heard or read explanations from some people on how to make money
from this business, and I must tell that I'm not quite impressed by some of
those explanation because, they seems to just scratch the surfaces and leaves
the truth untouched. Now, let me take you through the details yet simple and brief
guide on how to get into this business effectively.
1. Make a
decision - Decision is important because like every
other businesses, making money from affiliate isn't cheap contrary to what
information marketer would want you to believe. But when you make a decision to
enter this business, you'll be able to give it what it takes to get to the
point where you'll begin to rake in millions.
Once you've decided that you want to be in this business, believe it,
nothing will stop you from reaching your goal. But if you enter into it because
someone painted a nice picture of affiliate program, how money are flowing in
it, and how you can be making thousands of dollars without lifting a finger; I
guarantee you wouldn't last long. Not that there isn't money to be make but
simply that you don't have what it takes in terms of endurance and hard work to
reach that destination.
2. Choose
product to promote - You may wonder why didn't I
say signup first as you normally hear? No, you need to choose a product first
before signing up with anyone. The product you chose determines where to
signup, the type of signup to make, and who to sign up with.
I wouldn't recommend ebook as affiliate product to promote, except if the
ebook is extremely important and scarce which I doubt if there is any ebook
like that. Instead of marketing ebook for affiliate why not just grab your own
ebook, set it up and earn hundred percent of your effort?
Therefore, I will recommend product like: Software download, scripts,
web-host, subscription renewable products, applications, and so on. We're looking
on ROI here since you may likely do advert and expect good return, chose
product that have very high conversion rate.
3. Set up
your system - I don't believe in signup,
grab few lines of java script code, dump it into your site and you start making
money stuff, except if your site is a niche site and it's already generating
good traffic. If not, you'll be wasting a whole lot of time and energy waiting
for a profit that may never come.
Set up a sale page and give it good, professional, and graphically
presentable design consistent with the product you've chosen. Put your
affiliate link on your "buy it now" button. Your web designer will
be-able to do all that for you. Now, you are almost good to go!
4. Sign up
for adword account - The mistake many people make;
wants to make huge money from affiliate without putting in anything or making
any investment, it doesn't work like that. Sign up with adword to run advertisement
promoting your website directly, not affiliate link. That will give you lots of
respect and professionalism which is very good for your business.
Monitor the performance of your ads and make needed change, then watch as
the dollars start dropping in! Do it this way and you're in for money. Drop your comments.