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Affiliate ProgramsHi. This is John Dilbeck speaking. I've had mixed results with affiliate programs. I've been working hard for the past couple of years and it's finally starting to pay off. Now, I'm earning 100% of my income from online marketing on a variety of websites representing a variety of affiliate merchants. Don't think you're going to put up a few banners and get rich overnight. If your site doesn't have at least a couple of thousand unique visitors each month, you probably won't make much income from affiliate programs -- unless those visitors are highly targeted and are motivated puchasers of the products and services you'll be promoting. You must work on building focused visitors to your site before you'll earn much from affiliate programs. Basically, affiliate programs are advertising methods whereby the merchant pays you (the publisher) for advertising their products on your pages -- just like magazine and newspaper advertising. The big difference is that magazine and newspaper publishers get paid a set amount in advance and you get paid a set amount when each sale is made. You get paid for performance. Some people complain that this isn't fair, but I just don't see it. In general, newspapers and magazines spend large amounts of money and effort to build their circulation and provide a targeted audience for the merchants' ads. You must do the same thing to build an audience for your website. You can choose to invest time or you can choose to invest money, or both. But, you must remember that you're competing with billions -- yes, billions with a 'b' -- of other web pages on the Internet, and many of them are much better financed than you are and they have an advantage when it comes to building their visitor flow to their websites. When a company like NBC or CBS runs a 10 second ad with their URL, they'll draw more visitors in a day than you will draw in several years. But, with work, you'll be able to draw a substantial number of visitors to your site and earn money from promoting affiliate programs on your site. It has been my experience that many affiliate programs just take a shotgun approach and welcome just about anyone into their program. It's easy to sign up, but then you will probably get distracted by the other things that compete for your time and interest. If you'll sign up for a program and then spend a reasonable amount of time learning about it and determining how your visitors may benefit from their services or products, you may do well. However, you must take the additional step of selecting the appropriate links and then adding them to your website so you can effectively presell them to your visitors. It isn't your job to sell the products or services, it's your job to present the links to your visitors in a way so they'll click on the link. That's your MWR (most wanted response). You must presell the product, and then let the merchant close the sale after your visitor becomes their visitor. Many of these affiliate programs offer little or no training and support for their affiliates. There is an exception that sets the standard for all other affiliate programs -- Ken Evoy's 5 Pillar Club -- and that's why I represent them. They stand much higher than any other affiliate program I've found for training and supporting their affiliates and they offer great products and lifetime commissions, as well. It will take work, but it is possible to earn an income from your website. Ken Evoy is happy to show you how to do this in his free Affiliate Masters Course. If you'd prefer to sell your services over the Internet, you may want to read his free Service Sellers Masters Course. Ken Evoy's Five Pillar ClubThe Best Affiliate Program on the Planet - This is a two-tier program with lifetime commissions. Not only do I like this affiliate program, I have learned more than I expected by purchasing his products which always have much more value for the price than any other competing products I've found in two years. I purchased Make Your Site Sell! and Make Your Net Auctions Sell! and I'm very pleased with each of them. I've also taken all of his free courses (opens in a new window to a download page at CherokeeCountyNC.com, where you can download as many free ebooks as you want, all in Adobe Acrobat PDF format), and I've learned more from him than I have from any other source. Highly recommended. Editor's Pick! His Site Build It! service is the best website design, hosting and promotion service I've found, and I've been looking for years. With over 60 integrated modules, and more coming, nobody else comes close to the tools that are available to make your site a success. And, to make it even better, you can host your site there for about a dollar per day! Ken even provides an ebook that leads you step-by-step in creating and promoting your website. It's where I host A Year From Now -- Act On Your Dream, and I'll be hosting more sites there as I have the time to build them.
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