It might have been Vince Lombardi or some other famous coach who said, "There is no I in team." ( I was too lazy to look up source of quote;) I think that this is as true in business as it is in sports. Especially in a business like ours, where we recruit many affiliates who are new to internet, new to business, new to computers....... You get idea. And yet due to nature of what we do, we must rely heavily on these new folks, or our stay at home jobs will definitely fail.

As a result of this, we must all reach out to our new affiliates and work with them to become successful. I have always loved business in general, and when I learned how to make a sale or earn a profit, I guarded what I had learned and kept it as a closely held secret. In affiliate marketing business, that type of mindset is a deadly mistake.

Remember, that we rely on our downline affiliates for our income in many ways. When one of our affiliates makes a purchase, we earn a commission. If you are Team Leader, you also earn a small commission on same purchase. So, if an affiliate never earns a commission, how long do you think they will remain in game? They will get discouraged and quit!

We learn things from our leaders about how to make a sale, how to generate traffic to our gateways, how to build a successful stay at home jobsite, etc. Unless we share what we have learned with those who rely on us, how will they ever succeed? Why would they be motivated to remain active or to make a purchase or sale?

Give your knowledge freely to your affiliates, and they will strive to emulate you in many ways. You may be modest, and feel unworthy of this emulation, but you are worthy! When you share your knowledge, your affiliates will not only become more active, they will become your friends and colleagues.

This concept of sharing knowledge is contagious. It wont take very long for you to begin reaping benefits in form of increased participation within team and larger commission checks for everyone involved.

Put your "to sell" book on ClickBank

The initial cost to open a Vendor ClickBank account is $49.95. Note, this account is only if you want to SELL something through ClickBank. If you are just selling products of others… your account is free.

Once you set up your ClickBank account, you are not listed in Marketplace until one of your product is sold, so you may want to go ahead and purchase one yourself, so you can get listed. You receive all your money back minus ClickBank fee with your next commission check.

This is optional and probably best for later on. As explained earlier, ClickBank handles transaction of selling digital goods (software, eBooks, etc). People who are interested in becoming affiliates visit ClickBank to look for products they want to promote and sell. So if your product is listed on ClickBank, people will want to sell your item for a commission. ClickBank charges a $49.95 fee to put your item on their site. Your item will then be place in their "Market Place", available for people to browse and purchase OR they will become your affiliate and sell your item for you.

Advertise heck out of everything (Lots of free, but good ways to do this)

eBay Listings: Example of a listing of mine: http://www.cidicon.com/sellerstools/FastAffiliate/examples/ebaylisting.htm

Notice near top of my description, I have two Bonuses listed. One is offering some free information that some people try to sell on eBay, which I feel is a scam. The auction visitor can click on email address and send a blank email and I have an auto-responder set up so that an email is automatically sent to them with free information plus a link to my website offering "More Free Resources".

The 2nd bonus is for visitor to be able to download my previous eBook for free. Some day, this eBook will be offered for free as well. My eBooks are always filled with links to my website.

eBay "About Me" Page: Here is my current "About Me" page on eBay http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/misssecretary

I have information about my websites here. However, I also have a link that states "In a hurry? Click here and you will be emailed information". That way, I can hopefully capture people who clicked over to my "About Me" page, saw amount of information and didn't feel like reading it right then. When they click link, they just fill in their email address and I have an auto-responder set up to email them different things over next 2 months.

eBay Leading Auctions Leading auctions, to me, are a way to auction items and it's nice if they sell, however you are after bigger picture of enticing them to your website. You most likely will have same items for sale on your website anyway. Use eBay for an inexpensive advertising tool. As I said before, with 500+ visitors to my auction listing, I feel it is money well spent. And if my item sells, all better. So I never feel I've lost anything with my auctions. Also, with a leading auction, I don't worry about making a profit on item and therefore can sell it for less.

Auto Responders Ahhh, magic of auto-responders. There are many programs around that offer auto-responders for a fee, of course. DO NOT PAY for an auto-responder. Do it yourself and it is free!! I use Microsoft Outlook for my email program. In program, I can set up 'Rules', so that if I receive email with certain criteria that I set up, it will automatically respond with an email that I also set up. Outlook is certainly not only program that does this, but if you have MS Office suite on your computer, you have Outlook and I suggest you use it. Or download Eudora eMail Program for free I have listed in "Software" section. Check companion website for instructions on setting up auto-responders.

Message Boards Join and contribute, use your signature to promote

Most message boards will not allow you to advertise or 'spam', which is a good thing. There are ways around this. Just put some information in your signature link and post away. Don't just post anything. Answer questions, get into conversation.

Free For All pages I absolutely do not recommend these. When you submit your site to a Free For All link site, or worse a service that will submit your site to thousands of FFA link sites, it only serves purpose of giving thousands of companies your email address. Then major spam starts. When your site is submitted to these FFA's, you are agreeing that you will receive email from them, so you are bombed with literally thousands and thousands or emails. If temptation is too great and you must do it, please by all means, get a free email address somewhere and use that when you submit. On flip side, you may want to set up a Free For All Link page on YOUR website, then you will have advantage of receiving emails from people who add links to page.

Other auction sites/Free to list sites There are many auction websites where it is free to list items. Take advantage of that for free advertising.

Advertise on related newsletters Be selective. Search for eZines you think your web customers would read. Advertise in them.

Offer exchange advertising on your newsletter

Search eZine databases for other eZines that compliment what you are doing and offer a link/advertising swap with eZine owner so his subscribers see your ad and your advertisers see their ad.

Send out your own newsletter Put in new stuff from your website