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Affiliate Marketing Secrets

One of the easiest and fastest way to make money online in through affiliate marketing. This is when you send visitors to someone else's product sales page, they make the sale and deliver the product, and you get a percentage of the sale price as you commission (usually 50% or more for digital products). The benefits of this are You can get started almost immediately because you don't have to create a product, write the sales page, design the website, develop marketing materials , or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system. You have almost no investment of time because you don't have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues. You have nearly zero risk because you already know the product sells. So if you send visitors you will get paid. Looking at these benefits, it's clear that affiliate marketing is the way to go! The downside is... After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you wil

Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST

The best way to ensure your success is to build automated traffic sources to send you visitors day and night. BUT, FIRST . .. Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. So you need to make sure the keywords you're targeting are worth targeting.  A couple things to keep in mind when doing keyword research : Are the keywords you're interested in attainable? You'll have to analyze the competition and see what's out there for this.What kinds of visitors do these keywords bring? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don't buy anything.  What you want is buyers!What about affiliates? If you want to build a huge business, you're going to need affiliates to help you. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site. Although this is an e

The benefits of affiliate marketing

            THE BENEFITS OF THIS ARE You can get started right away because you don't have to create a product, craft a sales letter, develop the website, create marketing materials , or get a merchant account and CRM. There's practically no investment of time on your part because they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc. There's no risk for you, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So if you send visitors you will get paid. Looking at these benefits, it's clear that  affiliate marketing  is the way to go! OK, BUT IT'S NOT ALL ROSY... You work hard to send the traffic to the product owner's website, but once you do that you will never see those visitors again. Less than 10% of the visitors your send will actually buy the product. The 10% or less that make a purchase now belong to the product owner. She can sell them additional products, but you can never sell to them again. HOW CAN YOU AVOID THIS PI