The solution? Take what you know, what you love, and turn it into a Theme-Based Content Site. Attract highly targeted, interested customers, provide solid value through content, then refer them to your affiliated merchants.

DRIVING TRAFFIC

Having lot's of traffic to your website is a big challenge. But it is essential to be successful. Or at least to make a reasonable amount of money.

You have to make your site "search engine friendly". You need content for search engine to spider your website.

You need to know how your webpage is index and how well it is ranked on SE to better perform.

Use every marketing method to drive traffic.

PPC Campaign Linking Strategy Writing Articles Ezine Publishing Newsletter Banner Advertising Viral Marketing (EBooks, Freeware etc.) Offline as well. (Business Cards, Flyers, Radio Spots etc.)

CONCLUSION

Affiliate Program are great. You can really make a substantial income at almost no cost. This is simplest way to start a business. You can really succeed if you keep learning and experimenting.

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*Take a look to see if affiliate program is two-tier so that you can earn money from recruiting other affiliates to that affiliate program. Most of the noteworthy and professional affiliate programs will be two-tier although there are some notable ones that aren't, Clickbank being most widespread. At very minimum, affiliate program should offer some sort of incentive to recruit new affiliates. If an affiliate program is not two-tier, make sure that you determine whether or not product(s) being sold are professional and have good conversion rates.

*Ensure that affiliate program makes it easy to sign up, complete with welcome email and full contact information of point person who can answer any questions. If affiliate program isn't run by a third party like Clickbank, affiliate program sign up form should also ask for your EIN # or your Tax ID # for proper reporting. For business owner who has established a business identity, this is key for accurate bookkeeping. Some marketers have gotten away from welcome emails to their new affiliate partners because potential affiliate partners sometimes do not want to give their name and email, they'd just like to join and make money with no 'marketing' messages hitting their Inbox.

*A strong affiliate program ideally should have plenty of help tools including any or all of following: real-time tracking, solo email templates (even though I suggest writing your own), graphics, banners, etc. For newbie, better help tools, easier it will be for them to feel comfortable selling product. In addition, affiliate program should offer follow up emails to all affiliates offering help to sell more products as well as relaying success stories of how other affiliates have made strong sales numbers.

*Ideally, affiliate program's affiliate links should be unique to affiliate but should also be structured so that link is distinctly protected from would be commission thieves. The affiliate link ID should not be visible in URL after would be customer gets to sales page of product in question.

For newbie, abovementioned steps will help mitigate wasting time and will maximize their time and efforts. The best affiliate program for newbie is one that satisfies most or all of these criteria and sells a product that meshes well with newbie's USP.

Karl Augustine "Starting Smart!"

Author, "9 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid When Starting An Online Business" Publisher, "Starting Smart!" e-zine

Starting an online business

www.9mistakes-online.com