Thursday, February 22, 2007

Can A Beginner Be A Success With Affiliate Marketing

If this is your first time in online marketing, it's quite understandable how
you may have seen or heard internet marketing spoken about as if it
were one big group of people scamming other people into scamming
more people. I'm sure you've figured out, that is definitely not the case.
This is a serious business, it's a real business, and it involves real
people and real products, even though many of them are published and
brought to our attention through a digital format, and many contain pure
information.

There are many reasons to promote affiliate products - no matter what
anyone says, there is lots of money to be made in affiliate promotions.
As long as you do it the right way.

Reasons to promote affiliate programs:

. No Customer Service
. Access to unlimited niches
. No product creation time
. No need to invest time and money in
product
. Bi-weekly/Monthly/Quarterly checks
. Self-generating income - even when
asleep
. Choice to promote more than one
program easily
. Minimum business investment

Now, nothing is perfect, so let's discuss some drawbacks of being an
affiliate.

. Only earning a certain percentage
. Not building a customer list/base
. Not being able to do Joint Ventures
. Having limited authority
. No control over merchant website/promotions

The main reason EVERY marketer should be involved in affiliate
promotions is because it immediately allows them to promote a product to
any niche in just minutes.

Affiliate promotions allow everyone to build a secondary waive of income
that generates itself (if done right).

What is an Affiliate Business?
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An affiliate is someone who simply promotes other people's products.
Meaning you don't have to go through the headache of developing your own product, providing customer service, marketing, processing payments - nothing.

You simply refer people to someone's website and get paid every time they
buy something. It's a genius concept.

You never have the hassle with processing the order, shipping
the order, providing customer service - you do nothing more
than get that person to that website!

If you're worried that you can't succeed, or that people won't like your work, have no fear because you're not alone, and I believe that this is healthy to an extent. What you mustn't do is let your past experiences get you stuck in a rut, and get you all worked up about not being able to succeed in the future.

Everyone makes mistakes, and you can't please everyone all the time
even though it would be nice. So no matter what you do with online
marketing, or any other business for that matter, don't let past
experiences stop you from moving forward. If someone doesn't like your
stuff, that's fine, as long as you're comfortable with it, give them a
refund, or just take it on the nose, say ok then and move on.

Don't let this type of thing hold you back. I solidly believe that this is one of the big reasons so many people out there can't succeed, because although they may be working long hours and putting everything into their business, they're avoiding the things that they really need to do because of past experiences.

Don't fall into this trap, keep moving and be true to what you're doing. Don't hide from it. If what you're doing isn't working, you have to make a conscious effort to look at what you need
to do to move forward, then do it, because when you do, you'll find
yourself with a lot more cash in your pocket, a lot more spare time on
your hands, and a business that is moving forward not standing still.
This is a hurdle you will need to get over if you're going to get
anywhere in online marketing.

Read more about Affiliate Programs

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