I want to make it easier for individuals like you to start an �Affiliate Marketing Business.�
If you are new to affiliate marketing, it can be easy to be overwhelmed. So what is affiliate marketing? It means a situation where you promote someone else�s product or service in return for a commission. There commissions can range in value from say $1 to over $300 depending on the product or service.
People make $100,000 a year doing affiliate marketing. A great example of someone who is the best at this is �Ewen Chia.� This man makes well over $100,000 a year in commissions from simply referring people to various products and services. He also has his own products and services.
There is one thing that is very important when starting your affiliate marketing business. Well, let me ask you, what do you have a passion for? What do you love to do or what is a hobby of yours? This is a very important question and should be answered truthfully.
The reason I ask is you need to find your niche or industry (I mean a suitable place for somebody). Let�s say your niche is �Games.� Now, since you have a passion for games and is something you love to do, you will enjoy promoting products and services about games.
On the long run you will find that this first is the most important one when starting your very own affiliate marketing business.
I hope you have found your niche. Great!
So, what is your next step? Your next step should be forums. Forums are like chat rooms. And this is an absolute excellent place to begin your affiliate marketing business. Here you can learn the ins and outs of affiliate marketing.
Here are list of some forums you can identify with. I�m 4 newbies. This is an excellent forum for individuals wanting to enter the internet marketing areas as an affiliate marketer.
The warriors forum. This is one of the top forum and it has many of the top internet marketing guru�s as members. For example, Ewen Chia, Mike Filsaima and Willie Crawford.
Associated Programs Forum. You can also find great help here. This is run by Allan Gardyne.
Web Master World. There is truly a plethora of topics that will help you easily find the answer to any question you may have.
Where can you find affiliate programs to promote within your niche? However, there are lot of places on the internet where you can find program in any niche. These include Clickbank.com, linkshare.com, paydot.com, commissionjunction.com, amazon.com.
The next thing and possibly the most important thing you will need to do are to disguise the affiliate programs links. This is an important step you must take to prevent individuals from stealing your commissions or just going to a site without using your link. You are given an affiliate link when you promote someone product or service. You can disguise your affiliate link using tinyurl.com or bit.ly.
Now that you have your affiliate link disguise what do you do with it. Well it is time to put it in an advert. An Ad is what will be viewed by your potential customer.
Ok. Where do you advertise your affiliate product or service? The first and easiest place to advertise is Groups. The main groups are Google Groups, Yahoo Groups and MSN Groups. These groups are fantastic places to start advertising.
Other places to advertise include herculist, freeadvertisingforum, freeadvertisingblog, ipostad, adlandpro.
In addition, you need to put a tracking device on your Ad. One of the best and most popular Ad tracking software service can be found at trackthatad. You can take any product or service you are promoting and have it tracked through their system to see if your money and time is being well spent. This is so important when you are starting out.
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