The Truth About Affiliate Programs

Written by Elena Fawkner


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And once you're publishing your own ezine, it's a simple enough matter to distribute your articles for other ezine publishers to run in their ezines. That 4 or 5 liner atrepparttar end telling readers who you are with a link to your website (or, if you don't have one,repparttar 106619 website ofrepparttar 106620 owner of repparttar 106621 product you're selling) is effectively free advertising for you. Not all publishers accept article submissions though, so be sure to find out whether they do before submitting your articles to them.

But think about this. If you're doing all this work anyway, doesn't it make sense to create your OWN website (in addition to your ezine)? Sure it takes time and it takes work and it takes money (but not a lot - hosting fees can be pretty cheap if you know where to go). But once it's done and you're just in maintenance mode - adding fresh content every few days, uploading your latest ezine and maintaining your archives - your website does so much ofrepparttar 106622 work for you. Generate a few hundred unique visitors a day and you can be gettingrepparttar 106623 same click- through rate to your affiliate site *for nothing* that you were paying someone else 14 cents a click for. EVERY SINGLE DAY. 24/7/365.

So, this isrepparttar 106624 truth about affiliate programs. They're great if you'rerepparttar 106625 product owner and they're great if you can link to your affiliate site from your own high-traffic site. But if you don't have your own site, you're going to have to buy traffic to your affiliate site - either with money, time or both. How many sales are you going to have to generate to earn enough commission to more than cover your time and costs and leave you with a profit?

Bottom line? Setting out to make money with affiliate programs before you have your own site in place is putting repparttar 106626 cart beforerepparttar 106627 horse. Yes, you want to make money and you want to do it quickly. But it just doesn't work that way. Not with affiliate programs, anyway. So adjust your expectations and do first steps first. It will be slow going to start. It will take you weeks to create a worthwhile site and then MONTHS to generaterepparttar 106628 kind of traffic you need. But if you take a long-term approach to your business and takerepparttar 106629 time now to layrepparttar 106630 proper foundation, you'll reaprepparttar 106631 dividends for years to come.

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Elena Fawkner, a lawyer by training, has recently relocated to Los Angeles from her native Melbourne, Australia. Before her move, Elena worked full-time as a corporate lawyer in Australia and has been running "A Home-Based Business Online", her online business dedicated to work-from-home entrepreneurs, part-time since July 1999.


The Fear Factor

Written by Sharon Davis


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There are some good reasons to be nervous, too. The Small Business Administration estimates that 33% of small businesses fail withinrepparttar first year, 50% fail withinrepparttar 106618 second year and 60% to 70% will fail within their first five years of operation. People have all kinds of reasons that keep them from starting a business:

__They're afraid they'll lose money __They're afraid of what their family and friends will think of them if they fail. __They're fearful ofrepparttar 106619 enormous responsibility that comes with owning a business. __They think it's too hard, or that they don't have enough time.

But should we really let fear come between us and our dreams?

In this past year, we've learned that we have tremendous strength within each of us-- whether we knew it or not. And lots of people *are* successful. Why shouldn't Bill be one ofrepparttar 106620 ones who succeeds? I believe that he has it in him to be successful, but he just has to get pastrepparttar 106621 fear factor and take that next step.

And if you're planning to start a home business then do your homework, find something that you feel passionate about, plan your business, but don't let fear keep you from achieving your goals.

---------------------- © Copyright 2001 Sharon Davis. Sharon Davis is the owner of 2Work-At-Home.Com, the Editor of the site's monthly ezine, America's Home and mom to two girls. In her spare time she reminisces about what it was like to have spare time. To subscribe to her free ezine, visit http://www.2work-at-home.com/ezine/subscribe/ezines.shtml


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