How to make money with Affiliate Programs

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Friday June 24, 2011 at 11:33:30:

A cool way to make money online from wherever you are is by simply helping others sell their stuff.
Affiliate programs are an easy way to bring in recurring income from the internet but what does it really mean?
An affiliate means a partner, link, referrer or associate. An affiliate program is one that allows you to bring in more people to a network and get rewarded for it.
There are a tonnes of Affiliate programs available on the internet and these are the major part of what brings in continuous income for a lot of individuals who work online.
Of all the various MMO opportunities I 've seen on the web, getting involved in affiliate programs seems to be the most rewarding as it offers you the ability to get paid for selling stuff you don't own and at the same time not be held liable for. You are just like the middle man.
I have been making some income from a couple of affiliate programs and just want to share with you a bit on how you can make money too with this program.
When it come to making money online, there could be a couple of ways people have talked about such as reselling, direct selling, online trading, ppcs and cpms but investing your time in affiliate programs can help keep bringing in for your long term income even when you are no longer working full time.

How to get started
- Search for a popular web merchant that offers affiliate programs
- Apply as an affiliate
- Identify your audience
- Develop a rich content website that relates to that product
- Include your affiliate links on that site
- Monitor traffic and sales on your information site
- Keep improving on your content for more sales

Suggestions
In order to make more from Affiliate programs, one cool merchant you can deal with it Amazon.com - a large online retail store. You can also try other new start-up web companies that pay much better percentage for referrals like on Clickbank. It is not really smart to drive traffic to your affiliate store from online advertising as it ends up eating up your funds for unreasonable sales. The real trick is in the amount of useful information that is on your site and how it helps in solving people's problems. There are a lot of niche sites that people have built for this such as dating, romance, weight loss and education. You could also include programs like Chitika referrals as they pay well too.
Writing product reviews on new products can also help you cash in on huge sales.

Comments:
Re: How to make money with Affiliate Programs Posted by kambo on Sunday July 17, 2011 at 5:6:28:

it seems there is no way around getting oneself a website as a platform ,if one wants to make money online.

Re: How to make money with Affiliate Programs Posted by Felix Okoli on Sunday July 17, 2011 at 5:6:28:

You don't really need a website to get started with affiliate marketing. You can make use of other people's website and a good example is Hubpages.com. It allows you to write articles that can help you make affilate sales for sites like Amazon.com or others.