An excellent and rather simple way to start a business or add income
flow to your existing business is to start an affiliate business. An
affiliate business offers an individual the opportunity to become an
affiliate, or business sales partner. An affiliate is paid a certain
amount of money for either a click through from the partnering web
site; a fixed amount for a lead generated by an ad on the affiliate's
web site; or a percentage of a purchase made by a visitor as a result
of a click through created by the affiliate.
There are two ways to successfully create your own affiliate business.
1. Creating an Affiliate Business Promoting Other Businesses
If you have a web site with a decent amount of traffic, and you have
time on your hands to search out some great affiliate programs and
continue to increase your web site traffic, then you might consider
starting an affiliate business promoting other merchants. While this is
not a get-rich-quick scheme by any means, it can, over time, generate a
fair amount of income.
Promoting your chosen affiliate business partners can be a tedious
process, and can become a bit tricky at times. While banner ads are
often the preferred method of promotion by an affiliate business,
choose an affiliate business that also works with you to provide text
links and other forms of communications, such as enewsletters and
email, to promote click throughs. Other promotion options that have
proven successful for many affiliates include pop ups, which can work
well, but are often blocked or closed even before they've loaded, as
well as pop unders, which tend to show more success simply because when
an internet user discovers them, they've already loaded and can be seen
in detail before they're closed. This allows the viewer a short amount
of time to consider clicking on the link to get more information.
While it is certainly possible to search for each affiliate business
individually, and sign up for each one individually, a streamlined way
that can become very successful is to work with a company such as
OffersQuest.com, an affiliate business that works with many different
affiliate partners. Companies such as this offer dozens of programs
covering everything from shoes to ecommerce solutions, and can offer a
variety of affiliate business advertising options, including both
banners and text links.
Before signing on as an affiliate business partner, however, be sure to
only consider links for products and services that promote and
complement your current business and web site. For example, a site
dedicated to home schooling information will not do well as a casino
affiliate. On the other hand, a site dedicated to marketing and
advertising may actually see improved web traffic and visitor stats
from an affiliate business link related to an ecommerce merchant.
Another thing to keep in mind is that many search engines, including
Yahoo!, may not allow your site into their listings if your site
consists mostly of affiliate links. Too many affiliate links will
litter your site, making it difficult to focus on your site's content
and the true nature of your site as well, so choose only a small amount
of select affiliate business partners in which to work. Focus on the
success of those select affiliate businesses rather than many different
affiliate business links.
2. Creating an Affiliate Business Promoting Your Own Business
If you're a web merchant and have a great product or service to
promote, it's safe to consider implementing your own affiliate business
by promoting affiliates to join on as your sales team. The steps
involved in becoming an affiliate business will take time and even
money, especially with choosing and installing affiliate tracking
software, but can, in the long run, become a very profitable and viable
business expansion. However, the most time consuming step in owning an
affiliate business where you're promoting your own products or services
is recruiting affiliates into your program.
A good way to promote your affiliate business program is through
increasing your own web traffic. Consider reciprocal linking strategies
with sites that complement your business or the nature of your
business. Links to your site from a popular site not only increases the
rate of visitors from that site, but is also a factor used by many of
the world's most popular search engines when calculating rankings.
There are software packages that can choose links for you, but because
they're expensive, if you have the time to look yourself, choose that
route instead.
Once you have an affiliate business team in place, be supportive of
your team so that they can generate the sales that you need and desire.
Offer a variety of web banners to choose for posting on their web
sites, as well as text links and other advertising options that are
easily accessible for your affiliates. Respond to their communications
quickly. Pay them on time. Offer suggestions to help them increase
their web site traffic, their click throughs, and ultimately, their
commissions. By working closely with your affiliate business sales
people, you'll bring them success in working with you - and in turn,
will bring in increased sales for your business.
A wise merchant knows that good sales affiliates are rare, and treats
them with respect, assisting them with resources and providing prompt
commission payments. A wise affiliate knows that an affiliate business
merchant wants quality promotion and sales performance for a minimal
cost. With these two statements in mind, the only successful merchant
and affiliate partnerships are struck when both parties understand
these points and work hard at working together, resulting in profits
for both parties.
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marketer. He provides expert reviews on which affiliate programs to
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