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What is Affiliate Marketing

Work At Home Malaysia — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:21:53 +0000

How Affiliate Marketing Started

With today’s technology and a troubled economy more and more people are searching for ways to make money from home but they are leery of internet scams riddled with false promises and hidden agendas. From these circumstances, the concept of affiliate marketing was born.

Make Money Online via Affiliate Marketing

There are two ways to make money through an affiliate program. The first is to create a product that can be easily viewed, purchased, and delivered electronically. Products that fit this criterion include e-books, videos, and software products. Once the product has been created a website needs to be built to advertise the product and offer it for sale. This is all relatively easy for someone with a little technical savvy but next comes the hard part, marketing the product.

The internet is a vast universe rich with products for sale. Standing out from the crowd can be very difficult and costly. This is where affiliate marketing comes in. Through an affiliate marketing program the owner of the product uses other people to do the marketing for him and rewards them with a share in the revenue they generate by advertising the product. This is a win for the product owner because he now has his own virtual sales team advertising his product on their blogs, websites, and social networks providing him with potential traffic to his website and he only needs to pay them when they make a sale.

Affiliate Marketers

On the other side of affiliate marketing are the affiliates and anyone with a blog, website, or social networking account can become one. These people paste customized hyperlinks to the product on their websites and social network pages. When their viewers click the link and purchase the product, the affiliate gets credit for the sale.

An affiliate will not likely get rich from this process but they can market multiple products in multiple venues to optimize their earning potential. Smart affiliates select products that compliment the style and genre of their website so their friends and viewers are more likely to find the products attractive and useful. Affiliates may also use other marketing techniques like email advertising to boost their earning potential. Some chose to write reviews of the products to post on their website or blog in order to drive traffic to both sites.

Getting Started With Affiliate Marketing

The easiest way to get started in affiliate marketing is to join an affiliate marketplace or affiliate management agency. These websites provide affiliate members with access to thousands of marketable products. They create the customized hyperlinks, take payments for product sales, and perform all of the accounting for both parties. The product owner generally pays a membership fee to join, but affiliates can join for free and immediately begin selecting products to market. Popular websites like Amazon, Google and EBay also invite affiliates to post links on their blogs or websites and may pay them for the traffic generated from their link even if it doesn’t result in a sale.

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Starting Your Affiliate Marketing Home Business

Work At Home Malaysia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:23:49 +0000

Affiliate marketing is an excellent business model for anyone looking to start a home-based business. Since an affiliate marketing business requires little or no start-up costs, you won’t need a business loan or investors to get started. You also won’t need to maintain stock or handle customer support, so you can easily begin your business as a one person operation without the need for hiring employees.

Affiliate marketing allows you to sell a merchant’s products or services for a percentage of the profits for any sales you refer. Basically you become freelance advertiser for the merchant, working on a commission basis laid out in their affiliate agreement. Some affiliate programs pay for a percentage of each sale, some pay a fixed amount per sale, per lead, or even per visitor.

Here’s what you will need to do to begin making money as an affiliate:

1. Find and join an affiliate program.

2. Obtain your affiliate link from the merchant. This is a unique link to the product you wish to advertise, which contains your affiliate ID number in order to track any sales you refer.

3. Find a traffic source to promote the product. This can be any form of advertising from free blogging to paid advertising.

Finding an affiliate product to promote is simple. Many well known companies such as Amazon and eBay have affiliate programs which pay a relatively small percentage based commission (usually 3%-8%) for any purchases made by new customers you refer. The smaller commissions mean you’ll need to refer a large volume of buyers in order to generate a significant income, so these programs are not ideal for beginners.

More profitable affiliate programs are offered by lesser known merchants which pay their affiliates 50% or more of each sale. The Clickbank affiliate program is the most popular for first-time affiliates since it offers a one-stop market place for a wide variety of products in many different niches, all of which pay a hefty commission for every sale.

Once you have found the affiliate product you want to promote, you will need to obtain your affiliate link. This is the unique URL provided to you by the merchant in order to track any customers you send their way.

Finding online traffic sources will be the remaining 95% of your business. You are, after all, a freelance marketer so the majority of your time spent will be finding an audience for the products you promote.

A traffic source is any website frequented by visitors in your target demographic. There are countless ways to reach these visitors ranging from creating your own websites to advertising on other websites or placing pay-per-click sponsored ads directly through the major search engines.

Most new affiliates begin with free advertising since the risk is low; you’re only investing your spare time, and not your life savings. Creating content such as blogs, articles and videos which your target audience is likely to find via the search engines will generate free traffic. More experienced marketers will then expand into paid advertising platforms such as pay-per-click and banner advertising where the risk and potential rewards are much higher.

Don’t let the ease of starting an affiliate marketing business fool you. The fact that the barrier to entry is so low means there will be plenty of competition. However, as long as you treat your business like a business and not a hobby, find one traffic source and master it without dabbling too much and spreading yourself too thin, you will outlast the majority of your competition who lack the focus and dedication.

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Affiliate Marketing – The Perfect Starting Point for an Internet Business

Work At Home Malaysia — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:06:53 +0000

Affiliate marketing has become one of the most effective ways to advertise online.

It has also become one of the most popular ways for entrepreneurs to make money on the Internet.

Simply put, an affiliate program is an agreement between a merchant and a third party marketer which allows the third party to promote the merchant’s product for a percentage of the profits that are the result of a sale from the third parties promotion.

Typically, promotion is done via a website, but can also take the form of an advertisement in a e-zine or even a link from a web 2.0 property, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Affiliate marketing is a win-win situation for both the marketer and the merchant.

The merchant will only pay for advertising if a successful sale is made, making it one of the most, if not the most, cost effective advertising solutions available.

The merchant is also given a wider market in which to advertise his or her product or service.

Rather than just having the merchant promote the product, affiliate marketing creates the possibility of a whole team of marketers working to sell the product.

The marketer benefits by making money off of products with their website or another format.

This method of making money requires some work up front in terms of building and promoting the website or putting together a newsletter, but once the link is up and running and receiving clicks, the income stream is passive.

Unlike most types of Internet businesses, the start-up cost for promoting a product tends to be relatively low.

If you are promoting on your own website, the only initial costs will be your domain registration, which is typically under $10 for a year long registration, and hosting services, which can be under $5 per month.

Furthermore, the product is already developed by the merchant meaning you will not have to worry about creating your own digital or physical product, you will not have to worry about payment solutions, or order processing.

All of these matters are taken care of by the merchant.

You may be wondering how one finds affiliate partners.

There are many high quality reputable services which act as an intermediary between the merchant and the affiliate marketer.

If you’ve created a digital product you’d like to promote or you are interested in marketing a digital product, such as an ebook, a downloadable piece of software, or a monthly membership site, a service called Clickbank is a popular choice.

Many products on Clickbank offer relatively high commissions of fifty percent or more and because of this, they have a huge network of affiliate marketers.

Clickbank is easy to use and is known to pay its affiliate marketers on time making it one of the most popular affiliate intermediary services to use.

If you’re more interested in promoting or selling physical products, for example books, cell phones, televisions, etc. or services, such as vacation packages, banking products, there are literally dozens of choices for affiliate networks.

Some of the most popular networks include Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Azoogle.

These networks often have very popular name brands as merchants, including offline stores like WalMart and Sears.

While physical products from name brand stores tend to be an easier sale, they provide lower commissions, meaning you will need to sell a higher volume of products in order to make money.

Ultimately it is a personal choice whether to market physical or digital products and in turn, which affiliate network to join.

Both types of products and every network has the potential to make you money.

With such little risk involved and such a low barrier to entry, affiliate marketing provides the perfect introduction to Internet business.

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Make Money Online with Clickbank Affiliate Program for Malaysians

Work At Home Malaysia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:50:46 +0000

Make Money Online with Clickbank

A lot of Malaysians want to make money from internet but don’t know how.

Affiliate programs are one of the method that one can use to make money online and Clickbank affiliate program are one of the top affiliate program out there.

Until middle of 2008, a lot of Malaysians were dying to make money from ClickBank.

Unfortunately, due to unknown reasons, ClickBank rejected all Malaysians applications.

However some Malaysians decided to go through the “back door” and sign-up for a ClickBank account.

I’m sure you remember this ebook by Gobala Krishnan called “Chapter-M”?

Many Malaysians bought that a few years ago and tried their best to start their ClickBank business.

Why?

Because ClickBank is the biggest affiliate opportunity, and by not using ClickBank you are losing out of many great products that you can promote to easily make money online.

Clickbank Products

There are over 10,000 products according to ClickBank, which mostly consist of e-books, software and membership sites.

ClickBank only sells digital products, and that is the best part!

Digital products, since they have no shipping cost or physical costs, have a very high profit margin.

That’s why the merchants can pay you up to 75% commissions to promote their products – you will never get this promoting a physical product, or promoting anything in the offline world.

Now any Malaysian can sign-up for a Clickbank account without backdoor methods, virtual offices or forwarding addresses.

I think we should start taking advantage of this situation and make as much money as possible!

To make money from ClickBank is easy, if you know the secret formula.

1) Know How to Find the Best Products to Promote

As I said, there are over 10,000 products – so which one do you promote?

Actually there is a formula to this, and almost all the information you want is already in the ClickBank website.

You just need to know where to find it, and how to analyze the statistics and data.

2) Focus on One Market and Three to Five Products

You MUST select a market that you want to promote to.

You cannot expect to promote one product related to Internet marketing and the other related to losing weight!

This will just make you less focused and in the end you make no money at all!

Find one “niche” market that you feel comfortable with, and find out which are the top 3-5 ClickBank products.

You can ignore the others as 80% of the sales will go to these top 5 items.

You can’t just promote one product because that will be a waste of your time.

You cannot promote too many either, so 3-5 is the best number.

3) Write Web Pages That Sell and Convert

Yes, this is the most important part of it all.

You can send the visitors or prospect directly to the product page with your affiliate link, and make money.

However, if you want to maximize your commissions you need to create at least one page on your own, where you write a “product review” about these top 5 items, so the visitor can compare and decided which one is the best for him.

Your product review must be written in a way that it removes all doubts from your reader, convinces him that it is a great product, and make him want to buy immediately.

The experts sometimes call these “landing pages” and they are proven to work better than blogs or any other type of website.

If you want more information on how to make money from ClickBank as a Malaysian, I strongly recommend you take a look at Rahsia ClickBank by Gobala Krishnan and Zamri Nanyan.

This is a really good package that explains everything I just told you in detail.

Plus, they do all the hard work for you and give you “ready-made” ClickBank websites that you can use right away.

All you need to do is upload it to your own web hosting, and then replace your ClickBank ID.

You can get more information on Rahsia ClickBank here.

Remember, ClickBank used to be closed to Malaysians and there is no guarantee that it will not happen again.

However, if you start now you can take advantage of the situation and make tons of money online before most Malaysians even know what ClickBank is.

Plus, if they ever close to Malaysia again, you will not be affected if you are already an affiliate who is making regular sales.

Rahsia ClickBank is a great way to get started, something I could honestly recommend to you.

Note : Rahsia Clickbank is now closed

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