When you access the web odds are you'll browse from one topic to another. If you do this then you'll frequently notice advertisements, in one form or another, on many of the pages you visit. These adverts are where the affiliate marketers earn their money. I can almost hear you say "That's fine for the guys with the big websites and big budgets but how can I make money?" Well there are many ways to earn money as an affiliate marketer and yes you almost certainly need to have a website. Don't be put off, there are places you can even get a free website or pages which will enable you to make a low cost start. Hubpages.com allows you to easily create simple web pages and can be very effective at gaining traffic and you don't have to use web programming languages.
How you earn money as an affiliate will vary enormously but yet again you don't need to create a fancy product of your own or write a mini book, you just need to consider carefully what sort of products you'd like to be involved in then do a little a little research and preparation.
Perhaps the simplest way you can earn money is with pay per click or PPC advertising. Google is the biggest player in this market but there are others. I'll use Google as the example. Put simply you can earn money from a website just by placing Google Advertisements on your site. Yes, advertisers will pay Google money each time someone clicks on a link advertising their product or services. If you have a website or page with some interesting content then you just add a few lines of Google code to you webpage and Google will automatically display advertisements on your page. If someone clicks on any one of the Google supplied advertisements then you'll get paid some percentage of what the original advertiser paid to have the advertisement displayed. As an affiliate marketer you'll need to be aware of both sides of these transactions. The people who pay Google to advertise their products or services participate in Google's AdWords program. The affiliate marketers that receive money for providing advertising space on WebPages are participating in Google's AdSense program. You can also use Google AdWords to advertise the product or service you wish to promote but do be careful or you can easily spend more money than your earn!
Google AdSense can be a great source of revenue but sometimes the revenue you earn for a click can be as low as one cent. How you attract the high paying clicks is another topic and it can be done. If however you were advertising a product that you earned $20, $30, $50 or more then you could see how your income could grow quite quickly. The true high earning affiliate marketer is earning commissions by selling other products.
There are literally thousands of products being sold via affiliates in this manner. Most affiliate programs are similar in concept in that you do not have to create the best-selling product, compose the best sales letter, provide after-sales support to customers or handle concerns and problems all this is done for you.
There are thousands of companies selling their own product or products or services via their own administered affiliate program. There are also some organisations that specialize in doing all that is necessary to manage affiliate programs for hundreds of vendors. Clickbank is one of the longest established companies and has a catalog of over 10,000 products available to be delivered electronically. As an affiliate marketer you could select a range of products to promote all from the clickbank market place and you'd receive one payment regardless of how many different products you promote and how many different suppliers.
I hope the penny is beginning to drop - we are not talking about get rich schemes, rather we are describing genuine businesses which with consistent hard work you can develop and grow to become a real income. The secret to making a great income is to get traffic to your website for the minimum of cost.
How you earn money as an affiliate will vary enormously but yet again you don't need to create a fancy product of your own or write a mini book, you just need to consider carefully what sort of products you'd like to be involved in then do a little a little research and preparation.
Perhaps the simplest way you can earn money is with pay per click or PPC advertising. Google is the biggest player in this market but there are others. I'll use Google as the example. Put simply you can earn money from a website just by placing Google Advertisements on your site. Yes, advertisers will pay Google money each time someone clicks on a link advertising their product or services. If you have a website or page with some interesting content then you just add a few lines of Google code to you webpage and Google will automatically display advertisements on your page. If someone clicks on any one of the Google supplied advertisements then you'll get paid some percentage of what the original advertiser paid to have the advertisement displayed. As an affiliate marketer you'll need to be aware of both sides of these transactions. The people who pay Google to advertise their products or services participate in Google's AdWords program. The affiliate marketers that receive money for providing advertising space on WebPages are participating in Google's AdSense program. You can also use Google AdWords to advertise the product or service you wish to promote but do be careful or you can easily spend more money than your earn!
Google AdSense can be a great source of revenue but sometimes the revenue you earn for a click can be as low as one cent. How you attract the high paying clicks is another topic and it can be done. If however you were advertising a product that you earned $20, $30, $50 or more then you could see how your income could grow quite quickly. The true high earning affiliate marketer is earning commissions by selling other products.
There are literally thousands of products being sold via affiliates in this manner. Most affiliate programs are similar in concept in that you do not have to create the best-selling product, compose the best sales letter, provide after-sales support to customers or handle concerns and problems all this is done for you.
There are thousands of companies selling their own product or products or services via their own administered affiliate program. There are also some organisations that specialize in doing all that is necessary to manage affiliate programs for hundreds of vendors. Clickbank is one of the longest established companies and has a catalog of over 10,000 products available to be delivered electronically. As an affiliate marketer you could select a range of products to promote all from the clickbank market place and you'd receive one payment regardless of how many different products you promote and how many different suppliers.
I hope the penny is beginning to drop - we are not talking about get rich schemes, rather we are describing genuine businesses which with consistent hard work you can develop and grow to become a real income. The secret to making a great income is to get traffic to your website for the minimum of cost.
