Sunday, May 12, 2013

Affiliate Marketing: Making Money On The Net

By Saleem Rana


Most people who have been looking for a ways of making money on the net have heard about affiliate marketing.

This income model is based on rewarding you with a commission for sending traffic to a merchant site and making a sale.

You will be paid a commission for the sale because the transaction will be tracked and recorded using your affiliate link.

By placing this affiliate link on their own website or including it in an email, the affiliate is able to recommend the product and redirect traffic to the merchant's website.

Affiliate marketing has its challenges. For instance, if doing a pay per click campaign, your cost of advertising might exceed what you earn in commissions.

However, if you can come up with an effective way of driving traffic to a website, it is almost like having money on autopilot because all the work has been done for you: the market research, the website, product delivery, and customer service issues.

Here are a few benefits of this form of marketing:

* You can start on a shoestring budget. Since the merchant has already paid all expenses associated with setting up the business, all you have to do is promote it. What's more, this can be done free. There are many ways of free advertising online like article marketing, blogging, social media marketing, and forum marketing.

* You need not worry about the day-to-day operations of running a business. All these details will be handled by the merchant, including providing customer service.

* Unlimited income potential. Unlike a regular job, where there is a ceiling on how much you can earn in any position, there really is no cap on how much you can earn when you promote a website for a commission.

* Free training and sales material. Often the merchant will help you sell the products by offering free banners, articles, emails, and other promotional material. In addition, many merchants also offer free training on Internet marketing strategies.

* You have a global marketplace. Instead of a limited number of people in a geographical area accessing the merchant's site, you have an unlimited customer potential.

* You are essentially promoting a business that never closes. Since the website is online 24/7, this means that someone can make a purchase at any time from anywhere.

* Promoting can be entirely free. Of course, if you are short on time, you may be interested in using paid advertising, but this is optional.

It makes perfect sense to use affiliate marketing to make an income online.

Even if you have your own website and products, you can still continue making money on the net by referring your customer base to related products from another merchant, someone who is not a direct competitor but who offers something that complements your products. What could be a better way of making money on the net?




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