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At the end of the day, there are only 2
ways you can make money online:
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Sell your
own product or service that you've developed, or
products/services you've bought the rights to.
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Sell
another company's products/services for a commission.
Both
methods have their unique advantages.
But the fastest way for you to start
making money online, is to sell another company's
products and services. Naturally, we're talking about
selling products and services that have already been
researched, developed, tested and are proven to sell
online . . .
Other
advantages of selling affiliate products or services:
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Usually
it's free for you to start selling a company's affiliate
products and services.
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When
you're starting out, you can use the affiliate owner's
already-made and already proven web sites and sales
copy.
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Because
you get to use your affiliate owner's web sites and
sales copy, you have fairly low start-up costs for your
online business.
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Your job
as an affiliate is to send interested visitors to your
affiliate company's web site or get people to sign up
for a series of pre-written email/autoresponder
messages.
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The
affiliate companies have tracking software installed, so
the sales made from the visitors you send, will be
credited to you...So you get paid.
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You can
get free training because most affiliate opportunities
come with some online marketing & sales training and
help.
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Once
you've learned how to sell one affiliate product or
service, with some testing, tracking and adjustments,
you can use the same proven marketing plan you've
developed to sell other online products/services:
. . . Even
your own!
Sounds
great so far, huh?
I sincerely hope you realize there's more to it than
meets the eye at first glance...
For
example:
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You need
to know how to pick a target market with money to buy.
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You must
learn how to study your prospective competition already
selling to your target market and determine if and how
you can own a piece of the market.
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You need
to know how to analyze and choose affiliate programs
that will sell and know how to determine if the
affiliate owners will pay you once you've made the sale.
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You need
to know how to set up methods for capturing names/email
addresses of prospects before you send them to affiliate
programs...so you personally can contact them for
follow-up sales.
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You need
to know the art of getting traffic and traffic
conversion.
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Etc,
etc...
In other words, like doing everything else under the sun,
you'll be more successful if you take the time to learn,
test and use that activity's peculiar rules wisely.
We
couldn't possibility examine the many facets of online
affiliate marketing in one simple discussion. Although
you can't learn everything you need to know from one
source, the following links will take you to the best
affiliate training I've found online in 6 years of
studying:
Affiliate Marketing Training:
1. Free
eReport gives you a simple strategy for selling via
viral marketing:
Viral
Marketing Strategy
2. Charlie
Page's "10 Simple Steps To Succeed As An Affiliate For
Under $100" Program:
Affiliate Marketing
3. Rick Braddy's "Affiliate ATM":
www.AffiliateATM.Com
4. Dr.
Andrew William's "SEO Site Builder":
http://www.SEOSiteBuilder.Com
5. To see
what your first business decision should be, go to: http://www.LazyDudePublishing.com/1.htm
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