Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Tips on How to Make Money - Register as an Affiliate

There are actually many methods and ideas on how to make money offline and online, especially in the 21st century. But today I will be introducing tips on making money on the internet (ie online marketing) and my emphasis is on affiliate marketing.

Brief Definition of Affiliate Marketing
By definition, affiliate marketing is the advertisement of product not owned by you on the internet by moving traffic to the website where the product can be bought and you get paid commissions on every sale made on the product which could be a one-time access or recurring billing product.

Recurring Billing Product
A recurring billing product is that which the subscriber actually pays a monthly fee to still maintain and have access to the product while a one-time access, as the name implies is just paid for once and that is it. I personally will subscribe for a recurring billing product, as this will generate commissions for you the affiliate on a monthly period.

Finding Affiliate Merchants
To be begin with, there are so many affiliate products or merchants out there that sometimes you really get confused on which merchant to go for, but as a newbie or professional, I would use the search engines to make my work easier. Google, yahoo, bing are some of the leading search engines that can take you to your desired niche.

Streamlining your Search
That leads us to the explanation of a niche. In common terms I will say this is what you like or are interested in promoting such as health, sports, internet marketing, computers, fashions which could all be broken down to smaller niches. The search engines will show you the affiliate merchants that sell this product. The next stage is choosing your merchant.

Easy way out
Another Interesting method is to sign up as an affiliate through click bank. Why I prefer click bank is that they have been in the market for years and most merchants register with them. They also have a secured payment portal and the risk of getting your affiliate commissions compromised is less likely. Registration as an affiliate is up to you doing it directly through the affiliate merchant site or indirectly with click bank.

Getting Traffic
The good thing about affiliate marketing is that it’s free, so you don’t have to be bothered about investing upfront. Your next goal is to get your new found product to the market, ie getting targeted traffic to your product. Once that is done, making money is sure.

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