Title: Now You Can Afford to Have Your Own Online Business Post by: Shawn Tracer on March 14, 2008, 11:13:35 AM Now You Can Afford to Have Your Own Online Business
by: Ann Liu Are you dream about to have your own online business at a very low start costs? If yes, then you should consider starting and getting into the world of affiliate marketing where you can afford to have your own online business. So what is affiliate marketing and why you should get into it? Affiliate marketing is an agreement between a merchant and a website owner, or the affiliate. He or she will promote merchant’s product in his or her own site by link it to the merchant's website. Every time, someone click on the link in the affiliate website and purchase the goods or service, then the affiliate will get certain amount of money or percentage commission that paid by merchant. The affiliate can only get paid by merchant when a customer clicks on the product link and makes a purchase. Through affiliates, merchants will have a wider market to advertise a product or service. The more affiliate sites a merchant has, the higher traffic merchants will get. Affiliates are like sales people; they will do the advertising to promote and sell the product, and they will only get paid by merchants once there a customer purchases goods or service. Because of its pay scheme base on the performance, so affiliate marketing becomes one of the most popular models in today’s business world. It is a win-win relationship for both merchant and the affiliate. Most of all, affiliate marketing is an excellent way to earn money while at home or in your free time because the product already there, which developed and proven by the merchant. All you have to do is to find as many prospects as you can to bring in the profit for both the merchant and the affiliate. Affiliate programs are usually free to join, thus affiliates do not have to worry about start-up costs. You can find thousands of products and services are available on the internet, you can choose to join any merchants’ product or service that is relevant to your website. If you have no idea of where to go to find the products or which merchant’s affiliate program should join and how the commission percentage structured, you can take a look at ClickBank's marketplace program by click: http://ann888.reseller.hop.clickbank.net This awesome program can help you generate revenue that included in their affiliate zone. There are over 50,000 products and businesses in this marketplace. It offers an automated database update system. You receive a commission rate determined by the partner/merchant site from 1-75% through your Clickbank ID. Clickbank cookie features give you commissions on sales from visitors for up to three months after a visitor has left your site. This is one place where you don’t have to site around and wait for your checks because it pays you through faster venues like PayPal. If you want to have your an online business, affiliate marketing is the simplest, fastest and least expensive way to start. The best of all for being an affiliate marketer is you don't have to develop a product, stock inventory, deal with orders, shipping and/or customer complaints. About The Author Article by Ann Liu, an affiliate marketer and the founder of bizbizlink.com, To learn how you too can succeed in Internet and affiliate marketing, go to: www.bizbizlink.com and sign up its powerful, new internet marketing concepts newsletter to discover the Better strategies and Insider Tips on how to successful and make money online. Click at: www.bizbizlink.com. |