Affiliate? Blogger? Publisher? Merchant? What do you do?
One of the biggest puzzles you have to solve in learning to make a living online is which of the several ways of earning an online income is best. We look around energetically for the answer and we have no shortage of answers to consider.
Affiliate
The affiliate is a middle man who makes a commission on every sale they make without really being a salesperson. An affiliate may have a website or blog and refer to a product, leaving a link to a website where it is sold. If someone clicks on that link and then buys the product at the website, the affiliate gets paid. This seems a good model to follow. You do not have to persuade someone to buy or even talk to them but you can still get paid, perhaps 50% of the purchase price.
This way of doing things sounds so good that thousands of people pour into the affiliate marketing community every day wanting a piece of the action for themselves.
It all looks so easy and it looks like there’s no real problems – the sales page does the selling after all. All the affiliate has to do is get people to the sales page.
That’s all!
But it is a very big “all”.
There are plenty of affiliates earning over $100, 000 a year but most don’t make a single sale!
What’s wrong? What’s missing from the picture?
“Traffic” is the one word answer. For us that means being able to produce a large flow of people through our affiliate link! Just how can we do that? Because if we can crack that problem we can begin to make some decent amount of money….
The Affiliate must become a Traffic Expert, or if not an expert they must learn how to get at least one type of traffic flow to work. Whether they do through Article marketing, Pay per Click advertising or buying ads in ezines you need to get your link in front of thousands of people, any way that works is fine! That is how an affiliate marketer works.
Summary Affiliate Marketing is simple to understand but not easy to do. One workable method of promoting your webpage is all it takes but you may have to learn several methods and try some of them out before you find the method that will work for you.
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A website that built a list for you would seem to be the perfect website. After all the biggest challenge for most website owners, I avoid the word webmaster usually, is getting enough visitors, otherwise known as traffic.
To build your list a system has to be in place that encourages each visitor to contact their friends or subscribers and rewards them for doing so.
Launch formula Marketing or LFM does this and so does MyViralSpiral. I have not used both scripts so I can’t give a comparative review.
Expert List Building is an LFM site. So also is “NewbieOnTheNet”
After we launch expertlistbuilding we will look very closely and probably give Myviralspiral a go, perhaps by relaunching “NewbieOnTheNet” as an MVS site.
THEN I’ll do a comparative review for you!
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