Monday, February 25, 2008

Affiliate marketing

Ever heard of this term affiliate?? A person who markets the products of other merchants is known as an affiliate. These days due to heavy competition for selling online, most of the online shops together with top brands have applied this affiliate marketing technique to get their produts sold!!!And its working great for many...

Wel, lots of money can be earned through this program if you are ready to put a lil effort. I hope u dont mind doing that!!!

(1) Build website of your interest. For details about how to build a simple website go here.
(2) Write good review or refer the products/services that you think are good to your traffic.
Make sure that you write about products that are relevant to your website contenet.
For eg: If you build a sports website and recomending a "sofa set" might not workwell!!!

Note: Pls pls only promote products that you think are really good... Just for sake of money, if you write good reviews about bad products, u might end up with a traffic loss!

(3)for every sale/action/click made, you are going to get paid a comission.

Now the question is " from where do i find those merchants who are implementing this affiliate marketing"??

Simple...Just navigate to merchants website and serach for keywords "affiliate" or "associate" or "partner". You will know the rest once you follow this step.

"Phew...what if i want to promote many products, do i have to apply for all those individually goining to all their website??Man it takes sweat ou of me!!"

Good question... You need not struggle that much though.There are many affiliate marketing networks/directories which act as a bridge between affilaites/publishers and the merchants. Just sign up in those networks and choose your merchants!!!

Some of the popular networks are
www.cj.com
www.clickbank.com
www.shareasale.com
www.clixgalore.com
www.associateprograms.com

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