What is an affiliate program? An affiliate program is
where you, as a Webmaster can market someone else’s products. There is no
inventory for you to handle, no shipping for you to deal with, and all returns
will be handled by the proprietary company. It’s a win/win
situation.
When you are just starting out in any Internet business, you
may not have the capital to use your own products. This really helps you to be
able to get started right away without risking a lot of your own money. This is
a way for you to get started until you eventually get your own
products.
So, the business owner gets his product marketed by you and you
get a percentage of the sale. This works out well for everyone
concerned.
I have been criticized for all the affiliate programs I take
part in but I don’t care and neither should you. A little income here, a little
income there and it adds up to big income. But, make sure that you are
promoting something that you, yourself use or you look like a hypocrite.
For instance, I use Virtualis Web Hosting services, http://www.virtualis.com/vr/ehatcher.
How would you like me to be telling you the advantages of having your own domain
and a web hosting service with 24 hour support, etc, and then you looked at my
URL which reads, www.someoneelsesname.com/member/2ndlevel/index.htm. You’d
think, “What a two-faced person!”
How can you recommend something that
you didn’t even want to buy?
I recently joined the affiliate program of
Six Figures, http://www.sixfigureincome.com/affiliate/register.html?125609 This
one is blowing my mind. You have three ways to join.
Affiliate - cost:
FREE
Benefits: Affiliates receives a free SFI Affiliate Website, free
Internet Income course, free lifetime subscription to our SFI Newsletter, plus
you can earn commissions on sales of SFI magazine subscriptions, advertising,
books, and many other exclusive information products and services. Affiliates
also receive free entry in our international advertising co-op, Powerline.
Executive Affiliate - cost: $49 subscription to SFI magazine
Benefits: Same as Affiliate, but commissions are DOUBLED.
Member -
cost: $85
Benefits: All Affiliate and Executive Affiliate benefits
described above, plus you now have the opportunity to additionally earn RESIDUAL
income and OVERRIDES on the efforts of others in your downline in 43 countries
worldwide. We help you get started through the Powerline co-op; any Affiliates
placed under you in the Powerline who also upgrade to Member are automatically
placed in your downline, but YOU must upgrade to Member first for this to
benefit you.
I joined as a member and in less than a week, I had over 25
people under me. It’s a great way to make a living.
So, if you want to
find a low cost way to make money, why don’t you try some affiliate programs.
But, you can’t just post a banner and sit back and watch the money roll in. You
have to handle it like a business and promote, promote, promote. There is a
great new online book out by Declan Dunn called “Winning the Affiliate Game”. I
purchased it and use it almost daily. And guess what? He’s got an affiliate
program to go along with it. You can find it at: http://www.activemarketplace.com/cgi-bin/store/deliver.cgi?index-1161 Enough
lecturing. Let’s get out there and MAKE SOME MONEY!
