Why Aren't You Making a Ton of Cash as an Affiliate?

Written by Matthew Zavadil & David Huizar


5 keys to you becoming a successful affiliate:

1) HAS THE OWNER OF THE PROGRAM DONE HIS OR HER RESEARCH?

Before you become an affiliate for someone, you want to know one major thing. You want to be very sure they've takenrepparttar time to test their whole sales process!

Have they invested some of their own time and money into fine-tuning and improving their sales letter until it really converts visitors into buyers? Is their ordering process simple for your prospects to navigate?

The last thing you want to do is spend a lot of your time and money to generate traffic to a sales letter that can't sell its way out of a paper bag, right?

One way to figure this out is to use a little common sense. How doesrepparttar 102274 sales letter affect you? Is it professional? Does it suck you in? Do you find you can't stop reading it because you just need to know how this product can help solverepparttar 102275 problem it's saying it can?

Does it make you want to buy? The last thing you want to do torepparttar 102276 lifeblood of your business (your prospects) is sell them "junky" stuff.

2) $25 MINIMUM

You should pick a product that pays you at least $25 for each sale. Unless you become an affiliate for more than one product (we'll touch on this point a little later), stick to repparttar 102277 $25 as a minimum price point so you can take your advertising costs out and still make a profit.

3) FREE TO JOIN

It must be free to join an affiliate program. If they are charging you to join, or require you to buy their product first, it's not an affiliate marketing program.

4) WHERE TO FIND GOOD AFFILIATE PROGRAMS

A great place to start is Clickbank. They have one ofrepparttar 102278 largest affiliate marketing programs you can find. Just go to http://www.clickbank.com and get a clickbank ID.

At Clickbank's home page, go to "Earn Commissions" and search for products that fit you and your site. They are even ranked in order of popularity. That's another sign of whether it's a program worth your time.

Another place you can go is http://www.lifetimecommissions.com .

Amazon has a good affiliate marketing program. Go to http://www.amazon.com and click on "Join Associates" near repparttar 102279 bottom ofrepparttar 102280 page. You won't get as much of a commission for each sale as you will from Clickbank or Lifetime Commissions but it does accumulate over time.

A Great Way to Start An Online Business

Written by Benjamin Scott


You want to start an online business,but you realize that you don't have a product,a web site, or prior experience. You now ask yourself, where do I start? Start with affiliate programs.

What is an affiliate program?

An affiliate program is a program set up by a company that sells products or services. When you introduce new customers torepparttar company you receive a cut ofrepparttar 102273 profits,in other words a commission ofrepparttar 102274 sales made.

Some companies pay you for sending them leads. Others pay only whenrepparttar 102275 visitor that you send them makes a purchase.

How to join an affliate program

Most ofrepparttar 102276 time all you have to do is provide your contact information and agree torepparttar 102277 company's terms and conditions. Some companies will charge you a small fee to get started.

Ifrepparttar 102278 company charges a fee to get started, make sure that they provide a toll free number so that you can speak to a live person for support and questions.

5 Things to look for

1.Find out how muchrepparttar 102279 company pays their affiliates. It can be a flat rate or a percentage. If they are paying you a percentage then you may want to look atrepparttar 102280 price of their products to figure out how much you will make per sale.

2.It is important to know how many levels or tiersrepparttar 102281 affiliate programs provide. Some programs are two tiers, three tiers,and some will go up to ten tiers. This simply means that if you refer another affiliate torepparttar 102282 program you will earn a commission onrepparttar 102283 sales that they make.

You want to go with a company that has at least a two tier program because this will allow you to earn residual income.

3.Doesrepparttar 102284 program provide you with your own website;or a link for you to send visitors to? Many companies will provide you with a replica of their web site with your own sub-domain. When someone makes a purchase through your web site,the company knows who to sendrepparttar 102285 commission to.

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