D. Will You be Part of a Community?

15. COMMUNICATION MEDIUM - Does program have a newsletter, a mailing list, a forum, or some other means of communicating among all affiliates? 16. AFFILIATE DECISION-MAKING - Does each affiliate have a voice in making decisions that affect all affiliates? 17. MUTUAL PROBLEM SOLVING - Is there a method whereby affiliates can pose problems and have them solved by affiliate community?- - - - - - - - - - - -

Be extremely careful when evaluating an affiliate program. Most people dwell on financial arrangements. These are important, of course. But more important, I believe, are efforts made to achieve community. These efforts may bolster your ability to achieve greater financial goals.

Spend time in evaluation. It will pay off in long run.

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Paul -the soarING- Siegel is founder of Learning Fountain Network (* Excellence * Honesty * Ethics), at http://www.learningfountain.com; and editor of LearningFOUNT, a newsletter focusing on Helpfulness Marketing. To subscribe, send email to: mailto:LearningFOUNT-subscribe@topica.com.

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On other hand, someone who had invested $100,000 in their business will fight tooth and nail to make their business work!

They will find solutions to problems, they will approach things a different way, do whatever is necessary, until it does work, rather than give up, because they have invested too much to lose it all.

So if you want to know correct approach to making a success of your affiliate business, it is to imagine that it cost you $100,000 to get started!

Imagine if you had to use your life savings, mortgage your home, or borrow from bank to start up, then you would have a completely different attitude to begin with.

If you can imagine that every month you are paying back as much as you can possibly afford to bank for your business, and then you really use this money as your advertising and promotion budget, then you will see your business grow dramatically!

Use some of your budget to get your own website. This is essential, to have you own unique site, and you can have links to all of your different programs.

And follow advice!

If you had really invested $100,000 in your online business, then you would be more inclined to take advice from people who had already become successful.

And advise you will get from all experts is that virtually all your efforts should go into promoting your own newsletter, not in promoting your affiliate site directly. Everyone agrees that '..the money is in list..'

Encourage people to subscribe to it, by offering freebies, and incentives if they do subscribe.

In every newsletter, you keep telling people about your programs, and eventually they will buy something from you!

Think long term investment. Not short term. You could send a few thousand people to your one affiliate website, and you might, if you are lucky, make a bit of money. But having that same amount of people on your subscriber list will eventually make you rich!