Thursday, July 16, 2009

Affiliate Marketing Briefly Explained

If you are looking for ways to make money online, affiliate marketing is the way to go. Although there are more and more people joining the business, there are quite a lot of people who leave the business because they can't see money coming their way. If you seriously want to be financially free and be your own boss, you will want to face the challenges head on. But that is another post. For now, let's look at what is affiliate marketing first.

Just to let you know, affiliate marketing is an online business where you make money by referring sales to the merchants. Many people have achieved their financial dream with this business and hopefully, you will be the next one. :-)

And to start making your first affiliate marketing income, you need to start making your online presence. Be it a website or a blog, you got to start building one and put quality information on your platform.

If you want to build a website to promote your affiliate marketing business, you might want to take a look at http://www.2createawebsite.com/ where they provide free web design information for beginners. I personally found they provide thorough information about the process and their reading material is easy to read.

And if you are looking for a more affordable platform to build your affiliate marketing business, you probably might want to look at blogging. You can get started with blogger.com/ and wordpress.com/. Both of them are popular choices when someone wanted to start blogging.

Next important tip to a successful affiliate marketing business is traffic. A lot of affiliate marketing newbie suffer when they try to drive traffic to their website or blog. But why should you? Building traffic can be fun and automated. What I mean about fun is that you make new friends during the process. Take this blog for example. I met a lot of people who don't just passionate about affiliate marketing. We some how connected at other levels. There are gamers, sport enthusiasts and even inspirational writers. Talk about law of attraction. :-)

And if you think you are having trouble building traffic, this where automation comes in. You just outsource the work, kick back and enjoy the result. However, this is going to cost you. So, make sure you have extra money to spare before you opt for this method.

After you drive traffic to your website or blog, you need to know how you can convert them to customers. So, even you have 10,000 visitors to your platform a day, you are still not making money with affiliate marketing if none of them buy your affiliate product.

Now, visitors go to your website because they think you or your affiliate product can help them in some ways. If they don't feel that you are capable of that, they will just leave. So, when you are displaying information on your site, you need to make it brief and direct. Don't make your visitors guess and never ever confuse them. It is ok that you have one or two banners on your site. Maximum three if you can place the banners strategically.

There are affiliate marketing newbie who hope to capture the maximum earning with a single site and flood the site with banners, pop-in and pop out box. Please don't do that. I know you desperately want to make money with affiliate marketing. Still, you are only turning your visitors away when they got confuse.

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
http://www.beyondaffiliatecash.com/

Remember, making money with affiliate marketing is easy when you know how. :-)

P.S. Making money with affiliate marketing can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always get more tips to earn your online income with ease. Why wait? Just put in your contact today and start learning from the free ecourse.


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