Use materials you already have to advertise your website.

• Add your URL to all your preprinted materials, including
  
  • billing statements
  • letterhead
  • business cards
  • brochures
  • fliers
  • print newsletters
  • ads
• Send out announcements

A new or revamped website is a good excuse to send a mailing to customers and prospects.
Mail out a postcard or flyer announcing your URL. Offer special incentives to people who go to site.


• Send out special "internet only" special offers with your sale mailings.
Or offer a free item, such as a pen or a Tshirt to people who visit site.

• Talk about your website.

Let people know it's there. Frequently, it's easier to remember a URL than a phone number. Tell people they can find your address or phone number on website (and make sure it's there!)

• Use it in your ads.
Instead of repeating your phone number three times and hoping people listening to your radio ad will memorize it, give your URL.

If you choose to sell someone else's products, how will you know what to look for? After all, this is a new venture for you.

Or maybe it's not. Maybe you have been trying out some affiliate programs which have not brought you any money, or, worse, have not paid you for affiliate traffic you have sent them.

If you are new person, or person who is floundering in Internet Marketing, this article will offer you some simple tips for choosing an affiliate program.

This article doesn't cover getting traffic to your site, which is another huge piece of puzzle, and will be covered in a later article, but let's just start with choosing affiliate programs.

#1. You should find affiliate programs that:

a) are relatively easy to set up (code is either created for you or easy to create)

b) will pay you well. This depends on your definition of what being paid well means, but generally, for most beginners, and some novices, if you can see yourself being able to make more than $250/month, program is at least worth looking at

c) give you products which people actually use. There are lots of products in market which will sell, but do you really want to be selling pet rocks? If you do, please don't take offense. Most legitimate affiliate advice sites won't feature affiliate programs that are exclusively selling something like 8-Track players and tapes. While there are probably collectors out there who would love an 8-track player and cassettes, fact is that market is done with 8-tracks. The point is, there should be a genuine need for, or interest in, what you are selling/reselling.