When many people hear the term sports ticket broker they think of a guy who has some sort of brick and mortar store selling sports tickets to those in need.   The idea of a a company with a lot of overhead, tons of money to purchase large amounts of tickets and a license to do this all legally.   This may have been true years ago but today many are selling sports tickets for their favorite teams right on their websites and making a nice amount of money.

The idea here is to not be the sports ticket broker, but to be an affiliate for a sports ticket broker.   To define the term affiliate in the Internet marketing world, this is more or less a salesperson for a company who garners sales for the business and in return receives a commission for each sale.   These sales are all tracked electronically through codes which you put on your website.

If you are a huge football fan and the Philadelphia Eagles are your favorite team which you know everything about and follow without missing a beat.   The idea here is that you would create a website devoted to the team and begin to market that site to draw targeted traffic.   The way you do this is by adding quality content on a daily basis and then searching for related sites which would enjoy a link partnership with you.

Then you would look for a sports ticket broker site or affiliate program which offers solid commissions per sale.   Shop around and make sure you have a reputable company which offers you the best chance to make the most money for your sports site.   Commissions can range from four percent to twenty percent.   You also want to confirm that sports ticket broker offers appealing cookies.   This may sound like a funny term but is very important.   A cookie will track the sale for a certain amount of time.   Some sports ticket brokers will offer a thirty day cookie and some may offer a year or even lifetime.

The cookie means that if someone clicks through from your site to the sports ticket broker site one day to look at tickets but does not buy that day, if he returns 30 days later to purchase you will still receive the commission.   On a thirty day commission cookie if the customer returns to the sports ticket broker site 31 days later and makes a purchase you will not receive credit for the sale.   Commission amounts and cookies are the two main things to look for when deciding on an affiliate partner.


Most affiliate partners are tracked by a third party, so there is no need to worry about the sports ticket broker not making a payment or trying to pretend a sale did not occur.   You will be able to log in and check your statistics through the third party company they use for their affiliate company.

This is just a rough idea of what selling sports tickets on the Internet through an affiliate company is about.   The idea of how to use your hobby and knowledge to create income on the Internet without the need for overhead and investment.   Many people are using these ideas outlined above to tern their interests into a profitable online business.   For further information I suggest you begin to research such things as web design, Internet marketing, search engine optimization, HTML code and affiliate programs.

Al is the webmaster for Sportstickets411.com A Sports Tickets Broker resource site for every sports event and teams nationwide including sports ticket broker links.