Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is probably the easiest way to initially get into online marketing.... Why?

You do not have to have your own website or web-hosting service.

You do not have to personally contact customers.

You do not have to write any sales copy.

You do not have to have merchant accounts to accept payments.

You do not have to inventory or ship any products.

All you have to do is to send potential customers to your affiliate link and collect commissions from the sales!

The affiliate you sign up with handles all the selling, product delivery, billing, and customer contact.

All you have to do is to generate traffic to the affiliate's sales page using a link he/she will supply to you. This link has a special code included in it that tracks the fact that it was you who sent this potential customer!

If the customer you sent buys any of the affiliate's products, you will receive a commission! Easy as that! That means cash money in your pocket!

Then come back here and look at some of the affiliate programs I recommend below to see if any of these sound like they would be a good fit for you.

If you want to start making money today, I would suggest signing up for one of the affiliate programs below then clicking on the Traffic link above and following the instructions on that page for all the free traffic resources.

This will get you started in the least amount of time. Some of the better affiliate programs will include traffic generation tips and tricks, but you will find the ones that work for me on my Traffic page... please take a look at it before going with the affiliate's recommendations. The ones I list are the only ones I use because they work for me and they will work for you!

#1 Internet marketing Center

The Internet Marketing Center is my #1 choice of affiliate marketing programs. The commissions are very good and they know how to sell their package. Plus it's the best overall package on the market for internet marketing. I am proud to offer their package to my customers and have bought the package twice myself! Once in 2002, and then again this year to get the updated information. Joining their affiliate program is free and they have a host of professional sales tools and graphics for you to use in your marketing campaign. This is probably the most professionally run affiliate program on the internet and they have been around for a long time. The only downside is that their products are a little more expensive than most of your run-of-the-mill clickbank affiliate offerings so it may take a little more work on your part to generate sales. But they do offer you every means to get the sales and commissions you want. To check out this affiliate program and to sign up Click Here!

#2 SiteSell

Ken's products are excellent and are a great value! They are easy to sell and your customers will be very pleased with their purchases.

Apart from the outstanding value for money, the features which impress me are the future earning power due to lifetime commissions on future products, two-tier commission structure, and a limited number of affiliates. When a customer goes to their site using your link SiteSell places a cookie on the customer's machine insuring that you get paid for each and every product they buy forever!

#3 TheSecondTier

A couple years ago when I first heard about affiliate marketing I got so excited I started applying to as many as I could right away. If I knew then about TheSecondTier I would have skipped a lot of the headaches I experienced at first—getting denied because I didn’t have a fully functional website and trying to figure out how to get traffic to my site, you know, the usual.

I struggled for a long time before I finally found TheSecondTier and was so happy when I found out that it not only carries products that are always in high demand for me to promote, but trains its affiliates for free as well!

I quickly started going through all the training videos and using their keywords to boost my ranking in the search engines. The two tier system that gave me commission off of the sales made by the people I referred also meant a big jump in profit for me. I was perfectly happy with the system as it was but I wasn’t surprised after knowing the standard of excellence they maintain that they were planning to add even more training and promotional tools. Just a couple of these include:

• Teleseminars every Monday morning with the affiliate managers where they’ll tell you everything you need to know to increase commissions. And if Monday’s don’t work for you they’ll be recorded and archived for later reference.

• Affiliate Manager’s blog—they’ll answer your questions about internet marketing and post the latest news.

Everyone I’ve contacted who uses TheSecondTier has been very satisfied with the information it provides and the huge commission checks you can earn while learning.