Get Started With Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is for everyone, in fact every person who has an online presence be it just an email address should incorporate some form of affiliate marketing otherwise you could be losing potential earnings (more on this later).
Here are some of benefits of affiliate marketing.
- Excellent way to build passive income from via the internet.
- Becoming an affiliate is easy and simple.
- You can start earning immediately.
- Zero or minimal costs.
- You don’t need to have your own products.
- You don’t need to be a technical geek. Basic computer skill and ability to follow simple instructions is all you need.
- You don’t need to have your own website (although I highly recommend you having one for your opt-in page).
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is simply promoting other peoples products/services by driving traffic to their website via your unique affiliate link.
How does it work?
Once you have decided to promote a particular website which has an affiliate program and register as an affiliate, you get a unique affiliate link.
Your aim is then to get people to click on your unique affiliate link which will take them (the visitor) to the website you are promoting. You will then get paid a commission if the visitor takes the necessary actions such as purchasing a product (paid per sale) or registering as a member (paid per lead).
How can people click on your affiliate link?
There are many sources for you to promote your unique affiliate links. You should not limit yourself to one source but instead should utilize a combination of the following sources. The more links you have out there the more clicks you are bound to get and the more commission you will make (provided they were placed in the right target market).
Places where you can place your links:-
- Your website (if you have one)
- In your email signature
- In articles, ebooks, ezines and reports you write
- Forums and blogs you participate in
- When you join groups or networking websites
- Advertisement such as Google Adwords (pay per click), freeadforum.com (free advertising), related websites (paid advertising) and with companies that have a huge list (your target market)
- Email marketing – buy a list and send out an email promoting your affiliate link/website
How to join affiliate program?
Affiliate marketing has become increasingly popular in recent years. Most internet marketers and even some large corporate companies and small businesses have an affiliate program in place to promote their products/services.
The majority of affiliate programs promote digital products (ebooks, videos, software programs etc) and membership websites (privilege access to information, monthly reports/downloads).
You can visit any website and look to see if they have an affiliate program in place or Google the keywords “affiliate program” along with the keywords representing the market you are interested in.
The best way is to visit sites that manage affiliate programs such as Clickbank and Commission Junction.
If you are selling or promoting downloadable information products, I highly recommend Clickbank.
Clickbank is the marketplace where thousands of people sell their digital information products and it is the number one website where people join as an affiliate. You can find any niche products to promote. The best part is that you can promote as many websites you want through Clickbank with one registration and get paid commission for all your sales (from all the sites you promote) by Clickbank. This certainly makes managing your account and tracking your commissions and payments so much easier.
Registering with Clickbank
To get started, register with Clickbank (click here), select the “Marketplace” menu. Here you will find thousands of affiliate programs which you can join. Enter the category or keywords relating to your interest. Before making a decision to join a particular affiliate program, make sure you check out their sales page, the commission and conversion rate. If you are happy with your choice, click the “Create my Hoplink” button, copy the url generated. This url is your unique affiliate link for promoting this particular program.
Take action and get started now.
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Kham Lee Tran
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Are Paid Surveys A Waste Of Your Time?
Concept of PAID SURVEYS is simple, you only need to know how to read English and use email. It’s been a couple of years since I tried this out. I personally think it is a waste of time and would not recommend this as a way of making money online. OK, sure a lot may have changed and improved since I gave it a go and you might consider starting this just to make some easy money. Just keep in mind the ultimate internet business is one which you can make passive income (money while you sleep or on holidays). Unfortunately, making money with paid surveys is active, ie if you stop doing the surveys, you make zero dollars.
What is Paid Surveys?
Definition of Paid Surveys is exactly that. You get paid for completing surveys. Payment can be in the form of cash, rewards points, prizes of entry into a draw.
Typical Sales Pitch?
You will be told that companies are investing in market research and would rather pay you then employ a researcher to go do the market research.
You will be led to believe that making money is easy, just complete surveys and get paid as much as $30-$50 for a 5 minute survey. OK, this is true subject to the many conditions that must happen first which of course they don’t tell you until you join.
How it really works?
You pay and join as a member usually with a market research company. In exchange, you get access to one or more of the following:-
- List of companies that will send you surveys from time to time
- List of other market research companies (similar to the one you just joined)
Register with companies
Once you have access to the list, you now have to register with EACH of the companies you want surveys from. You will need to include your detail, demographics and interests and will need to keep a record of the company website, login & password. This really fustrates me considering at most a particular company may only do a couple of surveys a month.
To receive surveys on a daily basis, you will need to register with about 50-100 companies. Not to mention, you’ll have to keep track of your earnings and payments (cheques etc).
Ideally, the market research company should only require you to register with them and they should be sending you surveys from all the companies registered with them and any earnings you’ve made should be paid by the market research company. I haven’t come across any market research company that does this, if you do please let me know (I may then change my perception of paid surveys).
Lets say you were really keen and have registered with 100 companies, you now start to get a decent amount of emails requesting your participation in completing the surveys.
Payment
Some companies will pay cash for completed surveys, reward points which can be redeemed for prizes or a chance to go into a draw to win a major prize.
You will know what sort of payment plan the company offers when you register with them.
Completing the survey
When you get an email requesting your participation to complete a survey, this does not mean you will be rewarded with full payment. Let me clarify.
If the email says you will be paid $30 for completing a survey, that means you must pass the qualification process and only when you have actually completed the survey, will they reward you with the $30.
You will be asked several qualifying questions to determine if you are the target market for that particular survey, if you don’t meet their criteria, then you do NOT qualify and do not get to complete the rest of the survey. Hence you don’t get the $30 and if you are lucky they might reward you with an entry into a draw to for wasting your time (getting this far). If you DO qualify (the target market) then you get to complete the survey which may take an additional 20 minutes of your time and yes you get the $30. Companies are only prepared to pay for opinions of the target market and this is why they will put you through a qualifying process first. (eg. why would they pay you $30 if you are a non-smoker and the survey is relating understanding which cigarette brands are mostly preferred etc).
Is Paid Survey for you?
Like I said, it has been a while since my attempt with paid surveys and my opinion is based on my personal experience.
If you just love reading tons of emails jand you really think it is the thing for you, then sure give it a go.
Here are some popular Paid Surveys.
I highly recommend you choose one where they offer a trial period or some sort of money back guarantee.
If you have tried any paid surveys programs with success or failure, why not share your experiences here with other viewers.
Focus, achieve and succeed!
Kham Lee Tran
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