Affiliate programs are the number one most popular way to market
on the Internet. There are thousands of affiliate and reseller
programs covering everything from books to baseball bats.
I make a better bat, you put my banner on your site, and if
someone buys a bat after coming through your link, I pay you 25
percent of the selling price. Killer idea, right?
That one sale won't be enough money to pay the mortgage or even
enough to take your kid to the movies. And to make matters
worse, how many o...
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A few days ago, a member of one of my affiliate program
downlines contacted me with this email:
'I've been promoting this product for nearly 5 months now and I
haven't sold anything. I've tried everything you can think of!
I'm about ready to give up. Do you have any suggestions?'
After looking at his website and a couple of his ads, I wrote
back with a simple question:
'Did you buy the product yourself?'
His answer: No.
Maybe I'm coming from a biased point of view (as his affiliate
sponsor), b...
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Affiliate programs are a great way to generate income if you
don't have a product of your own to promote yet. You know that
already. But it's NOT, despite what you've heard, just a simple
matter of signing up for this or that affiliate program and
placing free and paid classified ads all over the place to
generate traffic to the website they give you or to get people
to click on your autoresponder link. There's more to it than
that. Much more.
When I started out in this business in May 1999, I s...
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