5. Necessity for Customer Service does not arise. Customer service plays a major role in success or failure of a business. The advantage here is that there is no direct dealing with customers. The website will automatically direct customers to merchants.

6. Two Tier Affiliate Marketing: An attractive feature of certain affiliate programs is that they have a Two tier system, whereby affiliates can sign up as sub-affiliates below them. When sub-affiliate earns a commission, affiliate above him too earns a commission.

7. Income without a limit. In a paid job salary structure has a vice-like grip over your monthly income. Here possibilities are limitless. Though it is not every marketer who earns a big income, fact remains that avenues are all there for enterprising marketer to make it to big time.

8. Global Market Place. You no longer need to restrict your market to your home town or country. With your well chosen niche product you can sit in comfort of your home and target Global Market.

9. Low Risk Factor. The risk factor in Affiliate Marketing is so small that it has become one of major attractions for many Home Based Business entrepreneurs especially for those with low marketing budgets.

10. Business works Right Round Clock. One major asset of Internet marketing is that your Website, or in other words, your Home Based Business never sleeps. It works right round clock (24/7) making money from home for you.

Having indicated above reasons for popularity of Affiliate Marketing, it has to be mentioned that statistics indicate that only 5% of marketers do make big money. It is presumed that there are of course several thousands of marketers who make some money, thus giving them an additional income.

As long as top marketers in 5% slab, continue to make their millions and latter continue to make reasonable amounts of money and have urge to emulate top marketers, Affiliate Marketing will continue to draw attention and be popular with Home Based Business Entrepreneurs.

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Copyright © 2005 Kanaga Siva

Whichever method you use to get your program listed whether its doing it manually, Or paying you will generally find that main directories such as Associateprograms & Adbility will contact you within a few days. These are also ones that will supply you with most prospects. Some of smaller directories will take months to list your program, I've known it to take up to three months to get a listing in some of these directories.

It's not an ideal situation especially when you launch your own program you'll want to atract some super affiliates, Those marketers already established with several successful web sites & massive mailing lists which can push your program for you. But in reality, they are not likely to be watching these directories for release of your program.

However, one place where you can find these super affiliates is on Joint Venture Websites. A JV Site is where marketers present offers to each other in hope of finding partners to promote their programs and if you use them along with main affiliate directories you can give your program a successful launch. Additionally by listing In JV sites you are establishing some credibility for yourself with other marketers. These are marketers who you could find yourself dealing with time and time again. You can find a list of JV Web sites at: Http://trading-web-solutions.com/jv

Personally I subscribe to a lot of mailings from established internet "gurus" and you often see a few of them promoting identical offers. Believe me this is not a coincidence, I've saw announcements listed at JV Sites and within a few days everyone is promoting them including these gurus. Just make sure you research and develop your affiliate program properly before launching on A JV Site. If you do it badly they won't forget you - But for wrong reasons.