If your affiliates need website content or if they distribute an ezine, you may want to supply them with an informative article about your business. This should not be a blatant ad, but an informative article that customer will benefit from reading whether they buy from you or not. Something effective might be a short piece about emerging trends in your line of business, and how you are responding to those trends. Close article with a small business blurb and your url link. People like reading new information, and you'll find you get a lot of clicks. And don't worry if you're not a good writer. Talk to someone at your local college English department. You may find excellent student writers who are willing to work for pizza. If you're not near a college, browse web. There are all sorts of inexpensive writing services available online.

You can also supply your affiliates with a catchy signature file that links to your business. Write two or three lines about why your business is great. Try to be a little witty. Include your url link at end. Dedicated affiliates could use this sig file to close e-mail with, and you'll find yourself with even more business.

What it boils down to is this: you've got to be proactive with your selling program. You can't expect a very basic set-up to make you rich. People are getting more and more web savvy all time, so you've got to surprise them with something original to get them to go to your site. If one thing isn't working keep trying something else until you get it right. If you spend even a little time tweaking your link system, you may just find your sales skyrocketing.

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3. Remember how I promised you would only have to work 10 to 20 minutes per day? The key to this is using Internet's ability to automate tasks.

No question about it, you will want a series of canned email messages you can send to people who are interested. Use a multiple autoresponder to do this (freeautobot.com is a good one.) When someone emails your autoresponder address, they get your messages, one each day.

Chances are affiliate program offers sales letters you can use. If not, get a professional writer to help you put together three sales letters. A set of three often works as well as more common seven messages.

4. Finally, get your own web site. It is super easy to build a nice page or two using free systems at Tripod.com and Homestead.com.

While most marketing on Net is done with email, customers expect you have a web site with additional information. Rather than using free site affiliate program gives you, create your own site. Your site can tell your story, help people get to know you, tell why you support affiliate product, then link to your affiliate member site.

There are two reasons for this. Starting prospects with your own site gives you a lot more power to sell. You can tell story of how you used product and succeeded (very powerful!) and display additional products or services that compliment your main affiliate offer.

Most search engines won't list a canned affiliate site, but they WILL list original site you create. Search engines can be an immense automated source of free visitors.

That's all it takes! Do these four things 10 to 20 minutes per day and you will be well on your way to earning with affiliate programs.

Recent stats show average person spends 20 hours per week online. If you get organized, there is no reason you can't use at least a little of your weekly Internet time to work your own small business.