Affiliate Programs that Earn a ProfitWritten by Ratliff J
This information may be helpful for everyone, regardless of how long you have been in affiliate business, or even if you are just getting started. First, a good affiliate program can be hard to come by. It needs to offer decent commissions, accurately track sales, and most importantly, pay their affiliates in a timely manner. Many webmasters and internet gurus are doing very well with only a handful of affiliate programs. Once you find a good one, you kind of seem to get stuck on it until you are positive you are making every penny possible. Before spending a lot of time and money marketing an affiliate program, always check it out first. There are a number of ways to do this. 1. Search through an affiliate directory online and look for ratings or comments. I have my Affiliate Directory setup so people can rate programs, which helps everyone.
| | Creating WebmastersWritten by Jess Marion
Most webmasters know that to get paid by sites you advertise, you need to find a way to get traffic to your site. This is because a small percentage of people that visit your site will look at your ads, and an even smaller percentage will actually make a purchase. This process takes alot of time and money. Most affiliate programs have several forms of advertisement including banners, text links and free content. There is one in particular that is often overlooked. Many companies pay alot more for a webmaster referal than an actual sale. If not a straight forward sum of money, they usually give you a percentage of refered webmaster's sales. These seem to be greatest payoffs because getting another webmaster to advertise for a company that you yourself are advertising is very rare. This is because type of traffic you are targeting does not include experienced webmasters. You would have to have a website targeted toward this target category. So how does one get webmaster traffic to their webmaster ads? Well, why not create them? Experienced webmasters usually pick a niche and stick with it, basing their sites around certain targets. This makes it even more difficult to refer webmasters to a very specific advertising category. The most ideal traffic would be people who want to make money advertising who haven't chosen a niche in internet marketing. So how does one attract fresh meat? Easy. Offer something for free. Now what can you offer for free in exchange for deciding to be a webmaster and advertise with your companies? Something that they don't yet have and will most definitly need: a website. This sounds like alot of trouble to go through, considering time you've put into developing your own site, and cost of registering a domain name. But think about it. If you can guarantee a refered webmaster in exchange for registering their domain, you'll be making a huge profit. I register my domains with a registrar that charges $6.95 a month. If you only register their domain for first month, thats not alot out of your pocket, considering that some affiliate programs I advertise for pay as much as $100 per webmaster referal! That's a profit of $93 for a single referal. Now for site design. All you would have to do would be to create a one page website centered around product or service you promote. This way, you can attract costomer by not only a very cheap, completely set up site and domain name, but also making money in process. Most companies provide lots of free selling tools, content, and information. Your costomer would have to sign up for affiliate programs through your code so you can make your money, and they can make theirs. You would not have to download any materials again after this, because you can use exact same code for exact same site over and over again.
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