How to make money with Affiliate Programs - The Sensible Way

by: Xavier Nelson
by: Xavier Nelson
Every day, thousands of would-be marketers scour the
internetlooking for any and every affiliate program,
sign up, sit backand wait for the money to pour in
and get frustrated just as fast when the bank
balance still shows a big, fat ZERO!

There are tons of guru's floating around and even
more eBooks and articles claiming to know the
latest and greatest trick tomake tons of money
with no effort at all (oh and of course,unless
you use their method then you will never, ever
get anywhere in your online business and stay
broke the rest of your life). We've all seen
these before.

Let's get real for a moment.
If you don't put any effort into your marketing
and don'tspread the word of whatever you are
marketing, then you will get exactly that much
out of your effort. Zero effort = Zero results!

I hope that's plain enough and now let's have
a look at the sensible way to market your
affiliate programs, so you canactually earn
some of that Internet-Money-Pie (and it's
yummy too).

There are two types of affiliate programs
generally. Those that pay you (1-tier) and
those that pay you, plus they pay you a
bonus for actions taken by visitors sent by
other webmasters you have referred (2-tier).

Let's think about that for a moment. What's
the easier way to make money? You sell a
bunch of products and get paid on that
alone, or if you sell product and also
introduce the affiliate program to a bunch
of webmasters who in turn also sell and
they earn a nice commission and you get a
bonus every single time they sell something,
just for having referred them to the
affiliate program?

Ok, I know you probably just smacked your
forhead andsaid 'Duh' quite loudly and
think I am stating the plain andobvious.

If you can get others to do the same thing
you are doing, by keeping in touch with
them and helping them and duplicating your
efforts, then of course it stands to reason
that the bonusyou receive for referring the
webmasters will generate potentially a
large team of people making you money.

So, your first task is to find good, well-
paying 2-tier affiliate programs. You can
always use single tier programs as a back
end sale or on other projects, don't get me
wrong, they will still make you money, but
right now, we want to get you started off
on the right foot to your own internet
income.

So, you've gone out and found a well-
paying affiliate program, and you are ready
to rumble and make money... Not So Fast!!!

How are you going to promote it? What is
your plan of attack? That's another
problem many marketers run into, they just
run off and don't think before they act and
that again results in a lot less return for
all of your efforts.

Here's what I have done in the past and
always do each time. Feel free to try this
out and see the results for yourself.

After finding the affiliate program I want
to promote, I check the resource material
provided by the program. Sometimes, depending
on how new the program is, I use their
material to get things rolling but almost
every time, I start to write some ads of my
own, perhaps an article or even an ebook that
I can use to promote the product and the.

Another thing I do, after putting together all the
marketing material I want to use is to check out the
competion that's already in the market. I don't really
care if there is competition, as a matter of fact,
many times that is a good indicator that there is a
good demand for the type of product I am promoting.
You can do this pretty easily by just going to a
search engine and typing in keywords you associate
with the product for example (there are a lot of
additional ways to do this that we discuss in our
newsletter).

There are a ton of places you can advertise your
product, and the marketing material you are using,
such as article directories, free advertising
forums or websites, you can even find a lot of
ezines that allow you to place free classifieds
and websites you can post your ad on, at no cost.

Another thing that is handy to have is a website
of my own, where I can post my thoughts and
comments (nothing sells better than your own,
plain english comments and reviews) along with
any other articles I can find that will help to
draw visitors in and make the search engines
list my site better.

Most of the time, I will take a few of my
articles and turn them into a free ebook, or
post the articles in article directories
where other webmasters are permitted to
reprint them in their own newsletter, provided
they leave my resource box (see the bottom of
this article for an example) in place. So now
they are spreading the word for me, driving
traffic on my behalf and generating orders too.
But I like to help, as much as I like to earn
money too, so here's what I do most of the time.

When I find a good newsletter that I like then
I touch base with that publisher and offer him
the article, but I also tell him it's for a
2-tier affiliate program and if he would like,
then he could use my article, if he either
leaves my box in place or signs up under me and
then I let him add his link into my box, so he
can earn the bigger piece of the pie and I get
the bonus commissions from his sales.

Now, why would I do that? Simple...

I do that, because there's a much better chance
that he will send out my article sooner, rather
than later because now he has the potential to
earn money with it too.

Find a few publishers like that and you are well
on your road to getting a nice piece of the pie
and the great thing is that anytime you find a
new affiliate program to promote and write a
new article, you already have made contacts that
you can send it to, so it gets easier every time
and takes a lot less effort on your part.

Well, there you have the sensible way of making
money with affiliate programs. (Note: There are
a lot of other methods available to market your
affiliate program and earn money, but this is
one of the best methods I have ever used.)

Here's to your success,
Xavier

P.s. Quit reading this article already and get
out there and find yourself a good affiliate
program and start making money.
Now get moving...

(Note: You have permission to reprint this
article in it's entirety, provided you do not
change the article in any way and leave the
Resource Box above intact. If you would like
to earn money with this article, please visit
http://www.makemoneymarketingonline.com today
and sign up for the generous 2-tier affiliate
program that pays 50% for any sales you make,
plus an additional 20% for any sales
generated by webmasters you refer into the
program)


About the Author

Xavier Nelson is the publisher of
eBusinessCornerNews, a newsletter dedicated
to bringing you the latest news, articles,
reviews, free resources and tools along with
an opinionated view on the world of
'Making Money Online'.
Check out his newest product and brandnew,
2-tier affiliate
http://wwwmakemoneymarketingonline.com