Why You Should Consider Affiliate Marketing


by Alex Alaska P - Date: 2008-09-13 - Word Count: 991 Share This!

Now that you know there are people out there making money as affiliates, you might be asking why you personally should consider becoming an affiliate, and why you should put the time, money, and effort into being a Big Shot affiliate marketer.

Money

We'll start with the most expendable reason?money. Why invest your hard-earned cash into building a business as an internet marketer? Quite simply, because building an affiliate business is one of the absolute least expensive businesses you could be in. In fact, it doesn't have to cost you anything at all. Being an affiliate is free. All you have to do is sign up or register with the product provider and you're in!

But what about websites and hosting costs? Those can be had for free as well. And should you choose to upgrade to a more flexible and higher quality site, you can do that for very little money (and this you really should do). Even if you're not a programmer, or know nothing at all about creating websites, coding, and everything.

behind the scenes of website building, you can have a website with user-friendly (read, no technological expertise needed) templates for fewer than ten dollars per month. That is no lie. These sites are out there. A couple of popular ones that come to mind are GoDaddy.com and HostGator.com, but there are many others, and many newcomers looking to serve this in-demand market, too (some that are even hosting affiliate programs!).

Time

People probably complain most about a lack of money when starting a new business; lack of time is the next most common complaint that would-be Big Shot affiliates use to reason against committing to affiliate businesses. You just don't have the time to dedicate to starting a business from scratch. Well maybe not if you're re-inventing the wheel, but affiliate marketing doesn't work that way.

There are many different promotional and otherwise, "tools" available for affiliates. Know the tools to use that will help you make money, and you severely reduce the amount of time needed to get your new venture up and running.

But we get ahead of ourselves. Because the point moreover is that the companies who want you to be their affiliates have done most of the work for you. They've written the ads, crafted the code, designed the graphics, and in many cases built complete affiliate websites. All you have to do is find somewhere to host them so that people can find your links and click through to buy from your ads so that you get a percentage of those sales. All you basically have to do is put the right product or service in the right place at the right time. Of course, there are ways to do this so that sales are made, and that is really what this book is about. But rest assured that you can make the time to build a successful affiliate business. You can do it an hour at a time or days at a time. Whatever time you can afford to allocate is time that will bring you income through affiliate sales.

Effort

We won't kid you. You do have to make an effort in order to enjoy easy money through internet sales. You won't be putting in as much effort, say, as the guy who is hand-weaving organic wool blankets and then trying to sell them on the web, but you will have to put some real, focused effort into being an affiliate?at first.

Much of the time and effort that is required is only in the beginning. Once you've built your platform and learned the basics, you need only to maintain. So it may take twenty hours of solid work (an hour at a time or a day at a time) to get you there, but then all you have to do is maintain. Once you've hit the level of maintenance, that's where you can really relax. Sit back, enjoy yourself, and be lazy like the Big Shots. Dedicate a few hours a week to maintaining the income stream and traffic that you've gained, and cash your affiliate checks as they come rolling in.

Flexibility

What does every dog want from life? The freedom to enjoy having a good time. What is freedom? Today, freedom is usually having the flexibility to run your job around your life, not have your life run around your job. That is something you definitely can do as a Big Shot affiliate. There's no greater level of flexibility than a business that runs itself. And that is the beauty of the internet. It's why everyone wants to be in an e-business. Because it's never off, and the potential for earnings are always on; and you can attend to it when you want, not when a boss or a client demands.

Income Potential

The income potential of affiliate marketing is virtually limitless. The more time and resources you have at your disposal, as well as the effort you put into it, the more money you can make with it. But better yet, you can make the big money without too much of that. Why else be in this business? Isn't it about the easy money? The big sell and monster check for a very short hours? It certainly is. When you learn how the Big Shots do it, you can be making the bigger, better, easier bucks, too. And then if you're feeling energetic, you can go for more. That also requires knowing the right tools and right products that you personally can utilize to make money on the web. That requires reading the rest of this book and finding out what those are.

Summing it up

To sum it up, you should consider affiliate marketing for these reasons:

- Affiliate marketing is a low-cost (possibly no-cost) business to be in
- Affiliate marketing requires limited effort, taking up limited amounts of your time
- With the flexibility of affiliate business, you're in control
- For your limited time, money, and effort, you can make unlimited income


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Alex Alaska P. is an internet marketer who primarily promotes products & services related to generating site and blog traffic and viral list-building systems from the website:
http://profit-now-at-this.com
Also consider checking out:
http://theunselfishmarketervault.com

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