Saturday, June 13, 2009

Affiliate Income 101 " The Basics Of Earning Affiliate Income

By Steve Siemoreland

Lets take a look at the structure of affiliate marketing and how earning affiliate income can be earned easily, First off lets take a more detailed look at the steps taken by the top affiliates in the industry.

For those whore totally new to earning affiliate income (noobs as my friends would say it), here are the 3 simple-to-remember steps that Im talking about:

1. Keep a close eye on the T.V adverts, Toys video games or the latest raved about products.

2. Find a way for potential clients to connect to that product or service.

3. Soon as you have set up your affiliate link with the vendor, merchant, and a customer visits their web site thorough your link and buys the product you get paid a commission

So much for the review, now lets check out how to go about successfully completing one step after the other:

Earning Wealthy Affiliate Income Step 1 When you think about it, this step is made up of 2 more sub-steps: (1) finding what people are buying like crazy, and (2) who are the merchants catering to the hungry crowds clamor for the product or service.

With hundreds of sources and places to find whats hot in the market place. It doesnt take long to find out what products you should be affiliating with, Start by looking at the best-seller section of online shops or malls like:

- Amazon.com - BestBuy.com - eBay.com - And a lot more

Once you discover what the latest craze is, you most likely will be surprised at the out come, it could be the latest Harry Potter fiction book, the latest dog training e-book, the latest video game " it's an endless list.

Getting your research right for whats hot in the market place, the second step should just fall into place, since most malls like Amazon allow you to sell their products as an affiliate, by whatever legal means and you get commissions for it!

All you need to do is join their Affiliate program, and start getting down to business!

Earning Wealthy Affiliate Income Step 2 Affiliates serve as the middle man linking the customers and the vendor. Again, there are hundreds of ways to connect with them. Here are just a few of the most popular ways to do that:

1. PPC Advertising With Google, MSN or Yahoo. This type of Advertising is not for the faint hearted, Since you pay for every click even if you get no return on your investment.

2. Article Marketing " is by far one of the most cost effective ways of getting product and customers together. It costs nothing to do accept your time, And in time get you some fantastic results, If writing is one of your favourite pass times way not get paid to do it, write articles with links to your landing pages, or direct to the merchants sales page. and submit them to popular article directories.

3. Forum Marketing " This type of related product marketing is grate, if you like getting in voled with answering peoples problems. Most of the time you can provide a solution to their problem just by recommending a product, But be careful you dont want to get accused of spamming so answer lots of questions before recommending a product.

Once you join a forum make sure your signature matches a good offer that suits the members of the forum, while your answering the questions, your signature link is doing the marketing. Quick example, dog training forum, make sure your signature links to a good dog training e-book, or pet store that you are an affiliate of.

4. E-mail Marketing " E-mail marking can be very profitable if you target the market you are interested in. so long as you dont start spamming your list you can do well.

Email Marketing involves having a list of peoples e-mail addresses, who opted in to be a member of your group or subscribed to your newsletter. Once they agree to be on your list. You can e-mail them whenever you want within reason, Dont overdo, people will unsubscribe faster than you can say e-mail box!

Pick one that you think suits you best.

Earning Wealthy Affiliate Income Step 3 This step is the one that gets me most excited " After all watching the cash come into your bank account who wouldnt get excited ? If you have got all the steps right, there really isnt a lot to earning affiliate income step 3.

Do the work Sit back and wait for the checks to come thorough the post or into your paypal account.

Once you start earning commissions and have some seed money, Id strongly recommend that you invest into some affiliate tools to help speed up your endeavours. Or if you feel you could do with some affiliate training to complete the steps, and earn some top commissions, I would recommend the wealthy affiliate university.

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