How to make money on the Internet – consider becoming an Affiliate?
If you have been thinking about how you might make money on the Internet, then you should take a look at becoming an affiliate.
For those of you who don’t know or understand what an affiliate is, then in simple terms it is someone who promotes someone else’s product or service and if that promotion results in a sale then the affiliate gets paid a commission.
So how does that work in practice, well first you must register with a company or affiliate network as an affiliate. Some good affiliate networks to start with are ClickBank and Commission Junction. ClickBank mainly deals with ebooks and software which can be downloaded as soon as they have been purchased. Commission Junction on the other hand has a much wider range of possible Affiliate relationships, many with well known large companies.
Once you are registered with one or more of these networks you will be able to select which products you wish to promote. With ClickBank you can promote any product that they list. With Commission Junction however, you have to also apply to each program within Commission Junction that you select and you may or may not be approved for that program by the company concerned.
Having selected a product or service you then have to promote it using the web links that the affiliate network will provide to you for that purpose. An important part in this web link information will be your Affiliate ID which will be used by the affiliate network and the company whose product/service you are promoting to identify you as the affiliate sending them a potential customer. If that person makes a purchase the affiliate network will be notified and will allocate the appropriate commission to your affiliate account. At regular intervals the affiliate network will then send you the commission you have accumulated in your affiliate account. The web link information mentioned previously that you obtain from the affiliate network can be used on your own website or blog or possibly in email newsletter or even directly via web advertising such as AdWords. This gives you a basic overview as to how affiliate marketing works. Many people are making extra money or their living as an Internet affiliates.
If you think this is something that you would like to know more about then a good place to start would be to read the “The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online”.
This ebook is nearly 240 pages long and has recently been updated. It is full of useful information and lessons learnt by Rosalind Gardner, who is actually running successful affiliate web sites.
This would be a very good starting point for anyone wanting to know more about how to get started in affiliate web marketing. It covers the following basic areas:-
- What is affiliate marketing?
- Finding your niche.
- Building you site.
- Adding content.
- Monetizing your site.
- Marketing your site.
- Managing and growing you affiliate online business.
- And more
This book is very useful particularly so if you are based in the US. If you are based outside the US then there will be other thinks you will need to consider such as possibly exchanging dollars for pounds if you are based in the UK for example. Currently it would appear that only people resident in the US can open a US Bank Account, and ClickBank currently will only transfer commissions to a US Bank Account or send you a dollar check (cheque in the UK). So this can add delay and expense to the process. Commission Junction on the other hand allows you to specify the currency for your commission and will deposit it into a UK bank account if that is what you require. So in this situation Commission Junction might be a better starting point.
If you are interested in knowing more about this Super Affiliate Handbook click on the information to the left of this review.
Or click here for more information about the Super Affiliate Handbook.
