4. Start your own affiliate program, and create a powerful sales force that promotes your products for you.

Your affiliates can successfully build a residual income for you by continually promoting your products to their visitors or subscribers, as well as help you to increase residual income you make if you provide a service that is paid for on a monthly or yearly basis.

5. Join affiliate programs that offer you opportunity to earn a residual income for referring your visitors to their services.

Some powerful ways for you to promote your affiliate programs to your visitors are through your newsletter, by providing your visitors with free email courses, or by writing articles that promote your affiliate program through your resource box at end of article.

You can also increase your commissions by recommending products of your affiliate programs to your visitors by making a recommended resources section, or a recommended opportunities section when promoting two-tier affiliate programs.

Note: Pillows don't have to be therapeutic. You can offer decorative pillows, novelty pillows shaped like just about anything, pillows for pets, or pillows with a board on one side that can be used as a lap desk for making a laptop computer more comfortable. How about a couch pillow with a pocket for a cell phone or a remote control?

Note: You could just buy therapeutic pillows wholesale and sell retail, but then you are just pushing same products as everybody else. Why not design your own custom products that can only be purchased from you?

If you, or someone you know, suffers a discomfort that can be alleviated with aid of a therapeutic pillow, you might be in a position to design a custom pillow that you can patent.

How to design and manufacture pillows:

- Decide what your product line will be and create a web based catalog. - For each product create a pattern, specification, and bill of material. - Build to demand. Don't keep inventory until sales levels require it.

Tips for your pillows website:

- Remember - you are not selling pillows. You are selling comfort. - State technical concept that makes pillow therapeutic. - Pillows make great gifts. Provide gift certificates. - Show pictures of people enjoying pillows. - "pillows" is not your best search engine keyword. Your best search engine keywords include "neck pain", "back pain", "carpal tunnel syndrome", and so on.

There is a wide range of discomforts that can be alleviated with therapeutic pillows. Your business can provide custom designed pillows that alleviate pain and provide comfort, and you might provide yourself with enough income for a cushy lifestyle at same time. ---------------------------------------------------------- Resource Box: Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintain your computer and use it more effectively to design a Web site and make money on Web visit http://bucarotechelp.com To subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blank email to mailto:bucarotechelp-subscribe@topica.com ----------------------------------------------------------