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Startling
Facts about
Affiliate Programs ..
If you're
thinking about Affiliate Marketing, but have never
worked with
Affiliate Programs before, click
here to read a very simplistic overview
of how they work before reading the rest of this page.
If you are already in the
know you will be aware that there
are Affiliate
Programs ..... and
there are "affiliate programs" ..... if you are
basing your site on offering products and services
through affiliate programs, make sure you are selective
about the companies you choose to
represent.
Remember these companies are what
your
Business is
about.... they are your
lifeline....your
success will depend on who you
choose ....
Read their Terms carefully - know how
and
when
you get paid and, more
importantly, know
how
much (in
either monetary or percentage terms) you will earn from
each referral sign up or product sale.
Commissions will vary with each
company - but workload on your part will be the same for
every company - so why sign up with a company who pays 1% per $100
sale if
you can become an affiliate of a company that pays you 25%
or more per $100 sale!
There is no difference in actual
workload in
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web
site promotion |
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writing and sending
your classifieds, ezines, newsletters and emails |
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setting up your autoresponder(s) |
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keeping
track of your visitors |
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tracking
your ads |
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banking your checks
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....whether you have one
affiliate
program or one
hundred - it may
take a little longer to perform the task - but the same
tasks have to be done. In fact, if you had one hundred
affiliate programs on your site, it would be more
cost effective than if
you only had one!
It's a numbers game!
We know that not everyone is able
to work out the viability of an affiliate program - if
they were there would not be any takers for programs that
offer you 0.01 cents for reading an email!!
Be Unique - Don't Follow the
Sheep!
Those
of you who have already invested in our e-book
Web
Site Creation Madezi will remember that I spoke about split opinions
as to whether or not you needed your own site - well this is
the area where most people fall into the trap - Affiliate
Programs.
Why? - because
people signing up for an Affiliate program that offers a
"self replicated" web page or web site as part
of the signing up package thinks that this is a great way
to establish their presence on the web without all the
hard work of building their own website -
They do not realize just how
wrong they are!
I want you to think for a moment - a
"self-replicated" site (or page) is exactly
the same
as the site that you signed up from - and exactly the same
as every other persons site that has signed up as an
Affiliate for that company's product!
So, what's wrong with
that?.....
At first glance - nothing
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You've signed up as an
Affiliate so you have agreed to promote their
site anyway and, hopefully, their "free" site's structure
has been fully market tested.
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Immediate
"set-up" - no time wasted building your
own site or money spent getting someone else to
build it
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All you have to do is
advertise their site heavily through your link ...
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Interested visitors will
sign up or buy something from their site and
bingo....you get paid a commission!
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That's all there is to it -
isn't it?
NO! - that's
what site owners running these types of programs want
you to believe, but nothing in this life
is that easy or
straightforward ....
Discover the Solution
Here 
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