Tom answers:

Yes, affiliate marketing works. Many people earn a good living from it. I personally bring in a decent percentage of income from doing this.

It is hard work, especially at first, and you have to know what you are doing. I have two suggestions. First, join the Warrior Forum (free). This is a forum where Internet marketers hang out and exchange information. It is excellent you need to be there because the members have much to teach you. It is all free.

Secondly, I am giving away a document called Twenty-Two Steps to Making Money Online. It tells you exactly what to do to start selling affiliate products and to make money from doing it. One of the members of the Warrior Forum wrote this guide for his friend who was getting started. He is allowing us to give it away to other newcomers. It cannot be sold, but I can give it to you. The link to the Warrior Forum and to the twenty-two step guide is below. You are welcome to give the guide to other people also if you wish.

Good luck.

Tom answers:

There are so many ways to lose your commission but it is possible to make money with affiliate marketing. The best thing is to do your research on who you are doing business with. There are some good and some bad… With a little knowledge you can do well.

Http://www.affiliate-marketing-101.com/

http://www.abestweb.com is a great affiliate marketing forum.

Good luck!

Tom answers:

The best program is through friendfinder, there is no fees or up front investments, its free to become an affiliate. You can track your stats in real time and they pay you $1.00 for everybody who signs up for a FREE account and even more for each person that pays for an account. You cant beat that. The link to sign up is http://friendfinder.com/go/g797150-brk

I make over $1000 a month and not that I’m all set up, I only put a few hours a month into it, you can make allot more if you put more time into it. And, they dont make you pay anything up front.

Tom answers:

There are various types of affiliate marketing “techniques” to make money, but the most common way is to join a company’s affiliate program and start getting people to go to their website through link you may have on either a basic website, blog, or social media site etc… The links that you provide for people click on to go to an affiliate company’s site tell the affiliate vendor’s what web site sent them the customer and will track how much commission the affiliate marketer will get (which usually based on sales) and will send payment to the affiliate who directed the customer to them.
Many affiliates who are profitable at this business will use their websites to harvest emails “legitimately” first. They do this by providing good content on their sites that readers are interested in. They then will ask for an email address to which they might send a free e-book, have a newsletter to subscribe too, or perhaps have a very educational video that can be watched. Many good marketers will then send good legitimate content to their potential customers that is useful to them, then “soft sell” sell them a product that will give them a commission for sending their buyer to the seller’s site.
The Super Basic Steps of Affiliate marketing in 5 steps:
1. Put up a website
2. Sign up for an affiliate program that you feel has products that you have the ability to promote well
3. Add the affiliate links that are provided from the affiliate program you signed up with to your website.
4. Continuously work to Optimize your site to be found in the major search engines and get visitors
5. Find more products and keep promoting and building your site

Affiliate marketing is a REAL business. If you take it seriously and work hard at it, I honestly feel anyone can succeed. It’s hard work, but well worth it. I heard that 99% who attempt internet business of people never make any money, and it’s mostly because they quit too soon.

There are many books you can get at local libraries that can get you educated on the subject. I recommend watching YouTube videos by lisa3876, my wife says she was the easiest for her to understand the concepts and really excited her to try and get started.

By the way, when doing your research, be warned that affiliate marketing “educational” websites are usually trying to sell you something and can be VERY persuasive. Try not to buy anything if you can help it unless you are 100% ready to proceed and the seller has a minimum of a 30 day return policy so you have ample time to really review it. I’ve spent thousands on my education to build my affiliate business and can tell you that if you work at it consistently, it can be done.

Good luck!

Tom answers:

Everyone on this page (so far) is offering you a program (except for Helen) and they all benefit from those programs if you join the programs. But that does not answer your question …

A blog is a type of software that helps you post (display) small articles on the web without having to set up a website. Most software for blogging are free.

Go to http://blogger.com to see some examples or set up a free one.

What’s the point of blogging? Well, you can start talking about a specific topic eg beahc vacations. The you promote your blog and get traffic (visitors) to it and build a relationship with your readers.

Then if yor recommend a product or a holiday package from a company some of your readers may buy. If you are an affiliate for tht company, when somone buys you get a commission. The company pays you directly.

So selling (by promoting or recommending) products from other companies that you are registered with as an affiliate is called affiliate marketing.

You can do affiliate markeitng with or without blogging. There are a huge number of ways.

Can you make “quick” money, from affiliate markeitng? Yes and no. It is possible to make “quick” money but not for someone totally new.

When you know what you’re doing, you can do anything quickly.

First you need to learn about affiliate marketing. Do some searches. Do not join any prigrams. Just learn from the info already published and there’s a ton of it out there.

For example, do a search on

http://ezinearticles.com

for “affiliate marketing”. It is completely free. There is no registration or anything else. And LEARN LEARN LEARN.

How much can you make? There’s a guy called Chris Wilson I think. He started with affiliate marketing (after learning what to do … Took him a few months). He started earning a few hundred dollars per month …. And eventually hit $100,000 per month.

There are people who make 100K per week!

But the vast majoirty of people never make any money because they do not learn the basics and the intermediate and then the advanced stuff. They learn just a little and don’t even apply half of what they learn.

They then give up and move on to another “scheme” or “program” and there are tons of those as you can see from the recommendations (offers) on this page.

And they continue to jump from one program to another. Literally millions of people go on program hopping for 2 or 3 years and spend thousands each and earn nothing.

Don’t be one of those. Just learn, apply, monitor the results, make little (but very important) improvements and monitor again. This continuous process willl make rich beyond your imagination and you don’t need any schemes or programs or tricks or shortcuts (that don’t exist).

Happy learning and earning $$$$

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