Today, especially with what we have all been through with the economy, many people are wondering what the best ways to make extra money are.   The internet has opened up a whole range of possibilities that are open to anyone.  In this article, I would like to explore Affiliate marketing, which, in my opinion, is one of the best ways to make some extra money online.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Simply put, it is selling other people’s products and earning a commission on any sales you make.  You can sell physical or digital products, each one having its own advantages.

Digital products normally offer a much higher percentage of commission and can be pretty fast movers if you are promoting what people are interested in.

Physical products, though offering a lower rate of commission, may be higher priced, so your commission can still add up to a good amount.

You will need to search for what fits into your niche the best.   Always choose high quality products to offer as that is what will be best for your market and also remember that your name will be associated with the product.

Choose A Niche

You have heard the phrase “the jack of all trades, master of none” referring to someone who has a lot of skills in a lot of areas, but has not “mastered” any of them.  It is hard to become successful if you spread yourself too thin.  The same holds true with affiliate marketing.   To be successful, you have to get to know your market and be known in your market.  Your goal should be to become the “go to” person in that niche.  Become acquainted with your market’s needs and interests.  Write about them and offer them solutions to their challenges.  They will soon be coming to you for advice and recommendations.

Let’s drill this down to an example.  Instead of offering music CD’s, vitamins, apparel and a host of other items as an affiliate, concentrate on one niche.  Let’s say you enjoy golf.  As an affiliate, you could promote golf clubs and become an expert on which clubs are the best choice for individuals.   Or you can go the route of offering golf clothing, shoes, and visors/hats.  Even with a particular niche, it’s a good idea to narrow it down to a certain aspect.  Then people know who to come to when they are looking for something in your area of expertise.

Affiliate marketing is a low-cost business to start and you can get going in it pretty quickly as you don’t need to develop a product.  That is what  makes it one of the best ways to make extra money.

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Do you know that in spite of thousands of Internet Marketers trying out on free affiliate programs incessantly, the success rate is pretty uninspiring. I’ve read somewhere that only 5% of the affiliates are making 95% of the sales. Quite unbelievable! Do you believe this is true?

Lately I’ve been focusing a little more on free to join affiliate programs. This was prompted by a few recent affiliate sales I’ve made over the last few months. You could say it’s given me new incentive to do more research on affiliate marketing. I was also prompted by a very interesting statement I read:

“Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online, only when you know how to find hungry niches.- Franck Silvestre. SeoSeductions.com“

Here are 7 Top Tips of How You Can Succeed in Affiliate Marketing:

1. Understand Your Audience

Many people turn to search engines to look for solutions to their problems. If your affiliate programs can provide what they are looking for, there is a great chance of finding success in the program you promote.

2. An Element of Trust

The mere fact that you never get to meet any of your prospective customers means it takes a lot more for this person to gain your trust. So for example, if you’re seen to be promoting a product which you don’t even believe in, you’ve lost their trust in you. Even having too many ads on your product puts people of. Building good relations could be a great way to gain people’s trust in you.

3. Be Helpful

Don’t be too pushy with getting sales or don’t give the impression that your job ends when you put your affiliate link on your website. For most times, your customers don’t buy the product at first sight. That’s where you the affiliate marketer gives value to your content. Your review of the product should be well detailed using a few affiliate ads to provide more information.

4. Update Content

Good affiliate programs are going to stay with you for a long time. Do make sure that your old content stays current even if they are not on your main page. A good way to do this is to include newer links to your updated articles. I won’t rely too much on your related posts if I were you. Also a good number of people still use non wordpress blog or static pages anyway.

5. Get To Know Different Programs

This doesn’t mean try a new free affiliate program every other week. But you should not restrict to just one either. Each affiliate program offers different product features or commission structures. Some multi-tier programs offer lifetime payout while others offer short term payments.

6. Select Wisely

Spend some time to review and evaluate the different options these programs offer. Picture yourself as your reader and if the product benefits you. If you’ve gone through the thought process of finding a good niche, this may have already helped in this selection.

7. Disclosure

Be very transparent and upfront. It’s a good practice to disclose your affiliations. Your readers will surely appreciate such an honest approach and helps a little more in getting more sales. Everyone loves an honest guy.

My Final Thoughts

You really need to follow a proven plan which gives you a roadmap to succeed in free to join affiliate programs but I would say the most basic requirements for success in any online business opportunities are:

1. A Product (or Affiliate Product)
2. Proven Plan
3. Conversion
4. Traffic

So essentially:

Product + Conversion + Traffic = Money

Share with us what plan you use to succeed in your affiliate marketing programs. We like to learn more from you.

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A friend of mine, about to get married sent a joke to me entitled “Desperately seeking technical support” totaling 8 Issues. It talked about losing his bachelorhood, girlfriends issues, past relationships. I thought for a moment if they could relate to the challenges of our home internet business in which we always seek answers too. I decided to take up this challenge. Here is his joke (in blue) and my answers (in black)

8 Top Internet Marketing Tips For Your Home Internet Business

Internet MarketingTip #1- Get a Good Web Host

If you are running an Internet Marketing website and have recently changed to another hosting account like Hostgator from your existing account like Hos4Profit, the very first thing you will experience is that after setting up your site on HostGator, neither FireFox or Chrome worked on either of their editors and may just have to contend with using the much hated Internet Explorer. If you are still adamant about changing to Hostgator, you should keep both hosting accounts for the time being. Then when you are satisfied with the performance of Hostgator, then cancel Host4Profit. A note of caution, before shutting down Host4Profit make sure you have completed the files transfer to your new host or you will lose your online marketing website completely. That’s even worse than a system crash!

While the merits of changing hosts maybe justified, do remember to make relative comparisons and not just because one host charges $25 while another $7.95 per month. There is a “limit” to the number of domains a server can handle. Do you know that Host4Profit put no more than 250 accounts (full or multiple) on a server? HostGator I heard put thousands of accounts on a single server in order to off set the costs. Personally I think having thousands of clients on a single server may well lead to slower processing.

Internet Marketing Tip #2 – Choose Good Affiliate Programs

There are just too many affiliate programs out there that allow you to pick the most suitable one to promote. It is important to find one that is of good quality product, which ultimately pays good commission, with a good refund policy. Our recommendation is to choose affiliate programs which are relevant to each other so that the customer may eventually buy more than one product from you on your same website. Many new internet marketers make the mistake of choosing the wrong affiliate program or those that do not compliment one another. Another mistake that some bloggers make is they expect instant commission from affiliate programs to the extent of hopping from one affiliate program to another to find the best performance. You really need to first understand how the affiliate program works, the market conditions and demand for this product to have a good chance of making money from affiliate programs.

Internet Marketing Tip #3-Good Make Money Online Tip

Well after many months of not making money on the new affiliate product that I bought, I checked with my forum buddies as to what may be the reason for the poor sales conversion. After a few rounds of discussion, I eventually found what may be the cause of my problem. The issue was not the affiliate product but the way I promoted it. I had made the mistake of doing cold sale that is pushing too hard on this new product. As soon as I stopped all my aggressive online promotions, I had a sale.

Internet Marketing Tip #4-Avoid Too Good To Be True Schemes

I came across what sounded like a good affiliate program that requires me to pay only $1.00 upfront fee to join. Sounds really good I thought. After one month I had a shock when I realized that my credit card was billed $50.00 by this affiliate company. I found out that this was due to my not reading the fine prints when I joined the affiliate program. If I had, I would have realized that it’s $1.00 for a month long trial period and subsequent months the company will charge me $50.00 unless I opted out. After many exchanges of email with this affiliate company I got my money back. The lesson I learned: If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I then found one excellent free affiliate program called SFI Marketing Group and before long upgraded to Executive Affiliate status.

Internet Marketing Tip #5- Always Back-up Files

I found out about one good threaded comment plugin called Brian’s Threaded Comments Plugin. As threaded comments feature is good at attracting more comments on your blog, I installed it on my blog. Somehow during the installation process, something went completely wrong and that fateful night I made history by having hacked my own blog. Host4Profit recovered my blog within 4 hours, giving their top service something for me to rave about. Well naturally, once bitten and twice shy I had this plugin removed and subsequently found and installed Disquos which also had the threaded comment feature.

Internet Marketing Tip #6-User FireFox Internet Browser

Between Internet Explorer and Firefox, which do you prefer? For me and for most of my friends, it’s Firefox of course. From my experience I’ve found that internet Explorer does not welcome many changes that I make on my blog. For me particularly I’m constantly having problems with loading image files on my sidebar. They somehow break the sidebar too often. I’ve learned to reduce such changes to a minimum to avoid wasting time on fixing such problems in Internet Explorer.

Internet Marketing Tip #7-Google Adsense Alternative

A year ago I had my Google Adsense account suspended by Google just barely after 2 months. The brief reason given as ‘your account prove a risk to other users’ without offering a better explanation or suggesting what ways I should take to eradicate the risk to users, totally frustrated me till this day. Well just one month ago I found an alternative to Google Adsense. I joined as a free member but after one day when I learned that a paid member stands to earn more affiliate commission, I upgraded my CBadPro account to a paid account. That was a good decision as I’ve since had a few sales as well as paid affiliate members who have joined under me.

Internet Marketing Tip #8-Beware The Google Ban

I’ve always followed the Google Webmaster Guidelines all the time and applying only white hat SEO as apposed to Black Hat SEO. You definitely don’t want to get the Google Ban and lose page rank, Serps and everything that you’ve worked so hard for. You really don’t think you’ll get away with trying to game the system and trying to achieve results too fast too soon do you?

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Pay Per Lead programs or sometimes called Cost Per Actions (or Aquisitions) Affiliate Networks seem to be taking the net by storm judging by many that have sprouted up of late. While the good news is that they offer good income streams for affiliate marketers, many are inundated by just which CPA to choose.

Pay Per Sale and Pay Per Lead – What’s The Difference?

While there are several online marketing programs helping marketers in their business today, the most popular or common ones are pay per sale and pay per lead affiliate programs. Pay per sale is a type of the affiliate marketing model where the advertiser pays an affiliate solely for sales of products. Pay per lead affiliate marketing however works where the advertiser pays the affiliate for a certain action like signing up of a newsletter or subscription or simply filling out an application form. If the customer uses an affiliate link to the advertiser’s website and makes the required action, then the affiliate receives a certain amount of commission. T3Leads has ordered this review so as to get the word out for those not in the know, especially marketers looking for exciting profitable affiliate programs.

So How Does T3Leads.com Work For You

The registration process is pretty easy, which uses AJAX to validate your entries and  you’re brought to the admin panel page. Here you get a drop-down-on-hover navigation bar at the top. I haven’t figured out what “Public” and “Private” websites mean in this context and the admin page doesn’t seem to give any clue.

Customized Landing Pages

When you click ‘Public Websites’ there is a good list of fairly generic landing pages. Your unique URL is shown in every landing page which you can use to refer people to (example http://411payday.com/?affid=6808). These custom made landing pages present a very a unique feature of T3Leads that I’ve not seen in other CPA sites. They do look quite appealing and has a professional looking image that can easily blend into any blog or website.

T3Leads -Here’s A Quick Way To Monetize Your Blog

If you are thinking of new ways to monetize your blog or you have a niche blog it could be a good idea to use some of the great looking niche landing sites. Just grab the source code of these banner ads and put them at the most perfect locations on your blog. It may offer yet another alternative to Google Adsense. Or simply promote the affiliate link given to you when you signed up. It’s generous payment of 5% monthly extra passive income when you refer new affiliates who signed up is one of the first things that attracted me.

T3Leads – Some Advantages Working With This CPA Network

” T3leads does not resell generated leads. Our affiliate program directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions. We sell generated leads through a unique auction system that allows our affiliates to make maximum profits. We pay for each customer sent to us when they respond to your offers for qualified products and services – T3Leads“

How Much Do I Get Paid?

There are no fixed payouts and the publisher (affiliate) could earn “from $5 up to $150 per lead”. Well another unique feature of T3Leads is that this payout is determined by an auction basis. Here advertisers bid for the highest amount to get your leads for their business which just means publishers stand to receive the highest earning potential from this payment model.

When Do I Get Paid

Payment is made every 15 days so that’s a very decent interval to get your affiliate commission through your paypal account.

My Final Thoughts

T3Leads does have some very unique features although this uniqueness brings in a few questions like not knowing how much exactly one can expect to receive in each campaign that is promoted. I would say for pay per lead programs, the commission is smaller compared to pay per sale programs but pay per lead affiliate programs tend to result in much higher conversions. In fact T3Leads guarantees the highest conversion rates in the industry – ranging from 1:6 to 1:9. As a result this eventually translates into big affiliate revenues.

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As there are a whole lot of affiliate products in the online market you really will need to choose the appropriate ones that suit your[tag-tec] home business[/tag-tec] program or the strategies that you currently focus on.

Before I dwell into how you can find good affiliate products for your home business, it may be important to understand what the attributes of a good affiliate product really are. A good product is one that sells phenomenally well and isn’t likely to stop anytime. The process of finding good affiliate products may seem a challenge for you, and you do want quality products with a low refund rate so that your work at home business remains profitable. On the same breath do not forget that the potential buyer never sees the product until he buys it, so quality, though important isn’t really the entire picture.

Resale Rights

Essentially there are two types.

Basic Resale Right: This gives you the right to resell the product. When one of your customers buys this product, he owns the product for his personal use.

Master Resale Right:This gives you the right to resell the product as well as to sell the resale rights for the product. When one of your customers buys it, he owns this product and at the same time he can also sell the right to resell the product to his own customers.

Owning resale rights to a product can give you an advantage over others and it may present you with a good strategy when you offer it in addition to another product that you are promoting. An example would be to give away a free e-book or sell at a discounted price, when customers purchase your main product.

Promote Other People’s Affiliate Products

One good rule to follow is don’t try to create your own products unless you know what you are doing. The rational behind this is that it takes a long time to create new products and even for seasoned marketers, you would be starting without a track record. It is a bad approach to try to manufacture demand for something people don’t really want. The truth is it is harder to generate demand than to satisfy demand.

Identify The Right Affiliate Company

My recommendation is to sell or promote affiliate products. A good approach would be to visit each affiliate network before you make a decision. It may be easier to just focus on one affiliate network and few products so that you don’t get too overwhelmed in the beginning.

There are several options for locating what affiliate products to sell. One of the best places to look for affiliate products is a site called Clickbank, which offers thousands of digital products. I highly recommend it as one of your options to make online profits and their commission rates on average run anywhere from 10% -75% per each sale made.

Research Your Niche

You will also need to spend some effort and time to do a little research to determine your niche to target the type of affiliate products people are searching for in search engines. Your objective in doing so here is to find something lots of people search for, but doesn’t have too much competition and you’ve found yourself a good target market for your Work From Home Programs in the Internet home business.

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