Affiliate Programs – The Fast Track to Wealth

Copyright 2005 Peter Dobler

Remember the day when you made the ultimate decision to
change your life? Yes, it was the day when you decided to
start your own home business. Gosh, I remember the anxiety
when I uploaded my very first web site, waiting for
something to happen. It’s like going onto a stage and
performing in front of a large crowd.

Ok, what has this to do with affiliate programs and how to
make money with them? Not much other than this is the
primary reason why people spending money online. Emotions
are the number one selling factor, period. And newbie web
masters are loaded with emotions.

When you started your home business, did you have a product
to sell? Neither did I. That’s why affiliate programs are
perfect for startup home businesses. In a nutshell, an
affiliate sells products from somebody else and keeps a
commission from each sale. An affiliate id responsible for
all the advertising and only gets paid whenever there’s a
sale.

Take a break and think about this for a minute. Every day
there are thousands of people online, searching for
products and ideas to make money with. They know that
there’s big money to make and they are eager to get
started. When you started your home business it probably
never crossed your mind to sell your own products and to
run your own affiliate program.

If you’re in the online business for a while with mediocre
results it is time to switch sides. Why should you carry
most of the risk with your advertisement spending with less
than satisfactory sales results? Not to mention that you’re
at the mercy of somebody else’s reliability to send you
your hard earned money.

If you don’t have a product to sell, go out there and
search for products with master resale rights. This will
grant you the exclusive rights to sell the product and keep
100% of the profits. Selling the product through affiliates
doesn’t violate this, because you’re paying your affiliates
for the advertising efforts, the final sale is still made
by you.

Of course there are a million products with master resale
rights available. Choose your product wisely. You don’t
want to start an affiliate program with products that are
already over marketed and maybe available for free or as
part of a bonus package. This takes some time and research,
but it is well worth the effort.

One source is to research the public domain sector and
compile your own information product. There are numerous
publications available on this topic. Another source is to
join a membership program that sells master resale rights
products. Make sure that they offer unique products and
check their rules. Many offer a trial membership, take
advantage of this.

Once you have your product start your affiliate program.
Don’t join one of the many services that offer affiliate
program services for a monthly fee. Here’s why. Having
thousands of affiliates advertising your product is a great
thing. Having thousands of free links to your web site is
priceless.

Create as many advertising samples for your affiliates as
possible. Have these samples point to different entry
points to your web site. Banners are the worst advertising
tools, but newbie web masters love them. They are easy to
implement. What do you care, you got your free link to your
website. Make sure that you use search engine friendly
affiliate links. Affiliate links with a “?” are recognized
as such. Better are the affiliate links that look like a
directory structure. The easy way to implement this is to
use PHP as your language of choice.

Guess what will happen after a few months running your own
affiliate program from your website? Your own web site will
skyrocket in rankings on any search engine, because you got
so many links to your web site without having a link farm
on your own. This is every web masters dream. Now you have
a choice. You either aggressively promote your affiliate
program or you promote your products. Either way you win.

If you’re still skeptical, go to Google or Yahoo and search
for links pointing to your favorite affiliate program.
Simply type ‘links:’ and your affiliate program’s domain
name into the search field. Make sure you don’t have any
blanks. This will return all the websites that are linking
back to this affiliate program. Check out the number on the
right upper corner where it says ‘Results 1 – 10 of about
x’. x stands for the total number of links. Now do the same
for your website. Hmm, you got nothing? Well, that’s the
difference. I hope you see the power of this by now.

Before you go out there and slab together your own
affiliate program. Do your homework and research as much as
possible. You want to get it right the first time.

Good luck to you all,
Peter Dobler
© 2005

Peter Dobler is a 20+ year veteran in the IT business. He
is an active Real Estate Investor and a successful Internet
business owner.
Learn more about wealth building methods at
http://www.thefasttracktowealth.com


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