An often overlooked strategy that could maximize your affiliate earnings

by Mark Meyers (c) 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.Internet-Income-Advisor.com

Most people join an affiliate program so that they will make some money by referring people to products and services of affiliate company.

This is, in fact, a great way to earn a really nice income.

However, if you JUST focus on this you are missing out on a great residual income stream.

Many affiliate programs are based on a 2-tier commission structure. This means you will earn a percentage for each sale that you bring in and a percentage for each sale that an affiliate that you referred brings in.

For example, you could earn a residual (ie you are not doing work to earn this) 5%+ from sales that your sub-affiliates bring in. This can really add up when you have a large base of sub-affiliates.

So where do you find these people that will help build your nest egg?

Let them find you!

Using search information from Overture: (http://inventory.overture.come) we find that thousands and thousands of people are looking for a way to work at home:

Searches done in July 2004: Work At Home Count Search Term 313502 work at home 310780 work from home 28662 work at home job 16197 work at home opportunity 12538 work from home job 11149 work at home moms 11053 work at home business opportunity 10371 work at home business

In mid 1990’s websites used to earn income by receiving money from advertisers by publishing or allowing companies to deploy a banner ad campaign on your website. Usually these banners would be brilliantly designed to catch eye of consumer along with a short message. The website in turn would receive a tiny profit from a click-through, which was when a customer actually clicked on banner and went into website and purchased product. This was considered traffic-driven income. It was industry standard until Google came along.

Google has since revolutionized click-through market by using an innovative approach to advertising, Google AdSense. The beauty behind getting involved with Google now more than any other search engine is due to Google’s straightforward approach to a banner/content-free home page. You would sign up your website for affiliation with Google and upon approval your site would be given special code to place targeted ads on your website. Basically saving Google space and inconvenience of having to deal with banner ads.