Affiliate Programs: Make Money Selling Other People’s Stuff

Affiliate programs are one of the hottest trends on the web today, with good reason. If you’re looking for an easy way to add to your income without spending a lot of time doing so, promoting different affiliate programs could be what you need.

Here’s the basic premise: you sign up in different affiliate programs and promote another company’s goods or services in exchange for a percentage of the sales you send to them. There are no sign up costs to participate, and because visitors you send to the host sites are usually “tagged” with a traceable “cookie”, you can get credit for the sale for a certain length of time if the customer returns to buy later (although this varies from program to program–read the fine print on any agreement).

Affiliate programs are strictly pay-for-performance and the ultimate “win-win” situation. Businesses get an army of salesmen to promote their product or service (not to mention TONS of advertising), with no payroll costs–and individuals are able to sell great products, with no inventory, handling, or fulfillment hassles.

Here’s how you can make money with affiliate programs:

1.  Easily establish a web presence. Want to make money online but have no product to call your own? No problem! Determine what your site is about, and find existing products to promote until you can develop a product of your own. Visit AssociatePrograms.com to find suitable products. Sign up for Allan’s newsletter while you’re there.

2. Create an instant backend. Have a great product but nothing else to offer your customers? Join and promote several affiliate programs relevant to your website and collect a percentage of the sales.

3. Easily add to your bottom line. Once you’ve established a web presence, people are going to ask you about your vendors. Why? They want to know the fastest way to get up to speed. If you’re satisfied with your web host, merchant account, tracking software, etc., recommend them to others and collect a percentage as an affiliate. It’s only good business sense, after all.

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“Best Bet” Resources

If the affiliate programs idea appeals to you but you have no idea where to start, download these resources and get on the FAST track to success:

Super Affiliate Handbook

Rosalind Garner collected her 1st affiliate check for $10 back in 1998.  Over the next two, through hard work and by making lots of mistakes, she was making $10,000 a month and quit her day job.  By 2002, she was raking in $400,000+ per year as an affiliate, and these days, she does six figures a month – working a few hours a day and taking month-long vacations.   This book shows you how to do the same…A LOT faster, and without all the trial and error she went through.  A “must have” for your affiliate library.

 

Google Cash Sniper

This program will have you up and running fast and profitably within a matter of weeks.  Super Affiliate Chris Fox shows you step-by-step how to find a niche, do keyword discovery, set up a website, and promote the heck out of it.  Once you’re done, you’ll have a network of sites that not only score well on Google, bringing you TONS of targeted, hungry buyers for FREE, but that fill your bank account as well.  I’ve been online for a decade and learned some stuff I’ve never seen.  Awesome!