Affiliate Marketing - Website or No Website

A lot of people believe that affiliate marketing is perfect business model because you can make money with this business with the least capital. Furthermore, there are a lot of vendors who are happy to provide you all the marketing tools that you need to build your affiliate marketing business.

But the problem is the vendors seldom supply you (the affiliate marketer) with the website (except the generic website with your affiliate link attached to the URL). And you probably have heard thousand of times that you need your own website to build your affiliate marketing business. But some still said that you can still make money without having a website.

So, which should you believe to?

With generic affiliate marketing website, you can save your money from registering domain, hosting services and autoresponder services. You can then direct the prospects to the generic website and you can start to make money when they buy the products. And looking at the fact that most affiliate programs offer cookies at your prospects computer, you can still earn the commission when they return to buy product within the cookie period.

Besides, when you are using the generic website, you can save your money from building and maintaining your website. This is because you often need to outsource your work if you have no knowledge about HTML. What if you are weak in writing? You still have to pay for the sales letter.

However, you have to becareful with generic affiliate program website when you are using article marketing to build your affiliate marketing business. This is because a lot of article directories will reject your articles when you are directing the readers to an affiliate link. So, you are better off to use other marketing method when you are using the generic website to build your affiliate marketing business.

That basically sums up how you can make money with affiliate marketing if you are using the generic website. So, let's look at how you can make money with affiliate marketing when you have your own website.

When you are marketing with your website, you can have control over what you want to say. If you think the vendor's sales letter is weak, you can publish your own sales letter to increase your conversion.

Then, you can build your website however you like it look. If you think banners can help you to make money with affiliate marketing, you can display the banner however you want (not flooding your website of course). If you think video or audio can increase your conversion, you can publish the right tools on your website just to help to convey your messages.

Furthermore, you can enroll to an autoresponder service to build your list. I don't know whether you heard it before or not,

"The money is in the list."

This is because a lot of people don't buy immediately when they see your offer. So, you want to get them into your list so that you can build relationship with your members and give them the right reason to buy your product.

Although cookie is enabled in the generic website, you can't compare that with your own list. The reason being that, if your list members don't buy your first product, you can promote another product to the same list members. However, it is quite difficult for you to get the same prospect to look visit the generic website for the other product.

So, you see, there are pros and cons when you are promoting your affiliate marketing business with generic or your own website. It depends on how you want to build your business.

Create your success,

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

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

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing business can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your online income with ease.