Affiliate Marketing

This is our affiliate marketing central page where you can find all what you need to create a money making home business promoting other people products for FREE or nearly FREE! Here are valuable affiliate marketing courses, quality free ebooks and all the needed tools to start your affiliate marketing business.

You don't have to spend money to learn how to do it RIGHT.

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You might be thinking only deep pockets or experienced marketers can make much money out of the Internet, don’t you? Think again. You too can earn big money online even if you are a green newbie, with no product to sell and small or no start up capital. Keep on reading... you are only one step away from realizing your dreams.

Tips for Spyware, Adware and Viruses Detection, Removal and Prevention

Computer protection is everyone's responsibility. It is a necessary requirement for all computer users if they would like to have their systems operating efficiently and securely.

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How to Arrange Folders on Your Computer

The first principle that lead to success is your business arrange and safety.
How to Organize Your Business and keep it safe is one of the first things to think about if you’re starting an affiliate marketing business.

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Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide For Earning a Steady Online Income

You've decided to take the step to becoming an online affiliate marketer, and you want to know where to start, or are looking for tools to help you on your way. Either way the "Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide" article series provides an easy-to-use method for creating a roaring home business that makes your life exciting and easy.

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What Affiliate Scheme Is Right For You? 
 
How do I know if a particular affiliate scheme is right for me? This is a frequently asked question by new business starters looking to make money from affiliate programs. There are various affiliate schemes you are likely to come across. If you don’t know what differentiates these programs you may be wondering how to find a good one and which ones to avoid.

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Make Money Online With Affiliate Program

You can make money through free affiliate programs. You might have come across these words over the net while surfing. It is one of the greatest industries nowadays because it is proven to be cost-efficient and quantifiable means of attaining great profit both for the merchant and the affiliate and other players in the affiliate internet marketing program, such as the affiliate networks or affiliate solution providers. Let's see how...

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How I Started Making Money Online

Several years ago, around early 1999 I had just start my online home business working from a friend’s Cyber Space. At this time I have no Internet connection and no PC. I started promoting affiliate programs as it is the easiest and cheapest way to start. After all it was the only way available to me...

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7 Rules To Success Through Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning money online. These programs can help everybody make money through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more and more people are now willing in this business.

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How to Create Residual Income Business

I'm a real person offering real advice information and tools on how you can really create residual income business working from home to make a good living. 

Before going any further click the image to download this valuable FREE ebook.

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How to Become a Successful Wealthy Affiliate Marketer

You have heard so many times that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online. You have heard also that you don’t need a product, a website, a blog or even a computer skills to start making money through affiliate programs!!

If it’s easy at this point why only 5% succeed and 95% fall short?....

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ClickBank Affiliate Start Up Advice

Making money through Clickbank affiliate program is one of the most rewarding careers one could ever have. What’s good about this business is that anyone can join and make their way to success. No start up costs, just work and get paid.

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How to Use Site Build It! to Create a Website That Works

Some of my subscribers and my blog readers ask me to give them a plan they can follow, implement straight away and that fits their small budget to create a successful home business. I know most of people are too impatient and want to make money as soon as possible. They want instant satisfaction. They get discouraged when they don't see immediate results and give up.

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7 Keys Strategy to Earn Customer loyalty

The key of your business success is building customer base list and keep feeding it with fresh subscribers. You have to understand that without trust and loyalty from both clients and subscribers your list is useless.

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The Key Principles of Relationship Marketing

Most of business owners fail to effectively attract and retain lifetime customers. Why? because they fail to realize the key principles of relationship marketing, that converts potential customers into repeat clients.

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How To Build a Profitable Customer Base

In the online marketing arena, skills and experiences are keys to businesses future success. What make difference is how to do and how to make. Starting a home based business is simple but it's not easy. You can't make money by just creating a sexy blog and some articles.

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How to Become a Successful Wealthy Affiliate Marketer

You have heard so many times that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online. You have heard also that you don’t need a product, a website, a blog or even a computer skills to start making money through affiliate programs!!

If it’s easy at this point why only 5% succeed and 95% fall short?

Ask any successful affiliate marketer and s/he will tell you there's no money to be earned unless you treat your business as a real business. Remember the saying, “No Pain, No Gain” That is as true as it can be.

Affiliate Marketing is a business like any other business. It needs hard work, knowledge in several area such as website promotion, marketing, search engine optimization, relationship marketing, copywriting, using tools, etc…. 

Affiliate marketing is not about sending visitors to your best affiliate marketing  programs' websites in hope one of them buy throw your affiliate links. 

If you think to start making money as soon as you start promoting an affiliate program you are wrong. The truth is, there is no magic bullet. 

Earning money as an affiliate marketer is simple but it's not easy. If you don't devote the needed time, if you are not enthusiastic or not passionate in what you do, chances are you won't stick with it.

I'm not telling this to scare you...Just to make think twice before wasting your time and money in programs promoting dreams. Thousands of affiliates are making good living online from affiliate marketing business. 

Wise affiliates have created residual income business and get payed for life. You need Just to learn before diving head first.

10 Main Keys Strategy to Affiliate Marketing success.

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- Create a quality blog full of useful content about your subject of expertise, your hobby or anything you love.

- Add fresh up to date content at least two times a week.

- Find out what strategy you need to continuously build traffic to your blog.

- Figure out what sets you apart from other affiliate marker 

- Promote only quality products.

- Build an email list

- Build a strong relationship with your subscribers.

- Analyse your competitors blogs and find out their strength and weakness.

- What products they are promoting an how to improve it?

- Write down questions like... what makes me unique? What product or service my market want? What affiliate program to join? What interesting content do I offer to attract visitors? 

applying these strategies and answering questions like these will help you create a way to success.

The best in affiliate marketing is you don’t have to take the risk of creating your own product, to deal with customers and issues they may have with the products, store, etc… All the hassle is left to the merchant.

What You Need in Affiliate Marketing Business to Reach Your Goals?

Successful wealthy affiliates know well how to make money. From this simple commission-based referral system, some affiliates become experts on this field. In fact, some of them are earning six figures income every month. 

However, among the thousands of affiliate marketers, about 5% of them have reached this level. And if you’re among the lucky ones who achieve this so-called elite level, you can now be appropriately called a "Super Affiliate".

But, how does a person succeed in affiliate marketing? How they realize their way to prosperity? 

You can’t succeed in affiliate marketing without blood and sweat. You can't realize your dreams without patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge tuned with effective strategies, these traits provide you the prescription towards success.

Affiliate marketing systems are slightly difficult but they are realizable; you just have to work hard on it.

1 - Find a unparalleled and Exceptional Niche and Focus in it.

Market research is one of the most valuable strategy for all businesses. Getting a good understanding of market trends is essential for you to make the most of your business opportunities. 

Most people in the affiliate marketing business didn’t succeed because they try to sell too many affiliate marketing products instead of giving all their attention in one or two products that their niche markets want and need. 

If you want to win the affiliate marketing game, don’t try to disperse all your efforts. Instead, concentrate on your niche market and make what is interesting to your customers and potential customers.

2 - Promote Your Affiliate Marketing Business Wisely.

The next step you must do after you have your online affiliate marketing business set up is to promote it. Most affiliates use pay-per-click search engines. But what’s more advisable is to discover other strategies that can bring you target traffic for free such as:

- How to accomplish natural search engines results.

- How to use media websites to attract traffic

- How to use article marketing the right way.

- Google business solution

- How to use forums effectively (You need to subscribe as an affiliate to use their unique tools)

- How to use online video sharing and social networking sites for marketing.

- ect....

It’s not hard to get free targeted traffic if you know how to do it right. Through this, you can save money to use it in the future.

3 - Know Your Product and Your Audience.

Remember that credibility builds trust and customer loyalty. So, don't promote any affiliate marketing products or services to your list unless you use it. If you suggest a product that turns out to be a scam, you will lose trust. 

If your target market doesn’t trust you, how could you expect them to purchase from you? If you take your time to examine the affiliate marketing products and/or services you are recommending, it will be way too easy for you to establish a blog that converts well, which will enhance your affiliate income in return.

Find out what your targeted market are buying, what problems they are facing. Go to to forums, discussion groups, visite facebook, google+, pinterest, etc.. to ask and answer questions.

How to Increase Your Affiliate Marketing Business' Profits

Once you see results, add more products. You are in business and you want to make money, so there is no nothing wrong with this strategy. Just select your products with your targeted mark in mine and money will come. 

- Promoting different affiliate marketing products on the same site provides your blog's visitors a handful of destinations to choose from. This strategy will provide you with a good idea about your visitors wants. 

- To be successful you need education. "Knowledge is power" as Francis Bacon said. Knowledgable affiliates are always updated and remain on top of the trends. 

- Take time to read. Subscribe to as many newsletters as you can. Buy quality ebooks, search in google and you will find quality FREE ebooks. 

By the way, Subscribe to Sitesell affiliate programs to get access to their Affiliates University Forums, and access to their quality FREE ebooks and tools they provide. In one word everything you need is there under one roof!

- The most important is...never, ever give up. Keep on working improving your business and learning. You must be be equipped with patience and persistence. 

- Often check your statistics. Find out what is working and improve it, and what is not working and fix it. 

- Find ways to achieve noticeable amount of sales or traffic on your blog if you are not making the money you merit or you are new to affiliate marketing. 

Super affiliates are experts on search engine optimization; they are also great in newsletter marketing, email marketing, reciprocal linkages, keyword research and optimization, advertising in forums and other methods to advertise and promote their products and services. 

They know how to select best affiliate marketing program. They have a pretty good idea about what program they promote to make recurring commission and what programs are waste of time and money. They use also the right tools to achieve the end results.

These are just few tips, suggestions and ideas if you want to make money affiliate marketing. 

Let me reiterate, you have to be patient, persistent and knowledgeable. Then, follow the above-mentioned strategies and you’ll surely find yourself a wealthy affiliate.

If you are new to the online marketing scheme and you want to start a home business on strong basis, I suggest to see this video.

Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide For Earning a Steady Online Income

You’ve decided to take the step to becoming an online affiliate marketer, and you want to know where to start, or are looking for tools to help you on your way. Either ways the "Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide" articles series provides an easy-to-use method for creating a roaring home business that makes your life exciting and easy.

Before going any further download this FREE ebook read it from cover to cover and I'm sure you will thank me for suggesting it.

Starting Affiliate Marketing For Dummies Resource Guide

So where would be a good place to start? Well before you even start thinking about marketing online, you need to make sure your pc as user-friendly as possible for you. Your PC is your most valuable daily tool at home or at work; and it's your responsibility to protect and keep your PC clean and secure. So that’s probably the best place to start. We’ll look at some ways of keeping your pc up and running, avoiding viruses, spyware and adware and basically keeping your computer hassle-free.

Overview Of Affiliate Marketing Training Course

Once we’ve sorted that we’ll move on and cover some basics of website design and blog creation and promotion. If you don't have a website, you don't exist. Suppose someone wants to find out how to contact you, or see if you exist. How do they do that? So don't heard anyone telling you that you don't need a website to start making money online.

After that we’ll take a look at the different types of programs you can join and we’ll share some hints and tips on to how to avoid scams and shams.

Let’s face it; if you don’t have your own product, you’re going to need to join affiliate programs but not any programs. I’ll show you what affiliate program will help you build your income and which ones are a waste of time.

Next, we’ll cover the best traffic generation strategy to boost your profits. Traffic generation is of extreme importance to your affiliate marketing online business. I bet it is the most interesting subject you want to listen. Indeed, it's the most sensitive topic too.

Almost at the end, we’ll see how to build your optin email list and how to use email marketing to double or triple your income without expenses.

Finally, we’ll read some case studies from real life internet marketers of today so that you can see it CAN be done, with a bit of hard work and determination.

This Beginners' Affiliate Marketing Guide for dummies articles series is not meant to scare you off from starting a home based business. It is just a wake up call telling you that you have to take this very seriously. There’s a lot of money to be made online, but it can also be a dangerous place for people just starting out.

Being an affiliate marketer who has earned money in the past, I decided to publish the Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide articles series in the hopes of helping you avoid all the scams and rip offs I encountered when starting my online venture.

If I can help just one person to succeed without getting burnt too badly on the way, then I will feel that my work has not been in vain and I’ll live the rest of my life as a very satisfied person!

Once you start your online venture, you’ll notice that you spend a lot of time online trying to figure things out. You will visit a lot of sites; download a lot off ebooks, reports, software, etc... and as a result you will get hit by a whole lot of viruses and spyware, but no worries, I’ve got that covered in this Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide articles series.

If you want to make it big, you will need a website to promote your affiliate programs and products, and you will need some ideas on how to create a good looking website that makes people want to stick around.

You’ll need to go to places to get answers when you’re uncertain of something. As a new online business starter you will download a whole lot of free staff and wonder where to put them all. Don’t worry; I’ve collected a lot of information to help you keep things manageable and in one place.

When you’re online you will get lots of useful hints, tips and a whole ton of e-books and software downloads, most likely leading up to what is commonly known as “information overload”. The aim of the Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide article series is to help you make informed decisions and formulate proactive strategies to use everything presented to you on the net. So sit back, take a deep breath and have that pinch of salt ready, because it’s true, not everything IS plain sailing, and it’s not always easy to get started on the journey.

Throughout this Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide articles series, you will notice that I’ve mentioned certain things multiple times. Don't worry; it just stresses how important these things are in the world of internet marketing.

The aim of the Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide articles series is not to give you richness promises or to sell you dreams. Its aim is to give you a plan with the ideas and knowledge to focus your talents and instincts in a constructive rewarding low cost approach that will result in increased business and that won’t cost you an arm and a leg.

I’m here to help you SAVE time and money, and to see through all the hype that’s out there BEFORE you get burnt. So keep around to read the article series. Ask questions, and you will get answers from a pro marketers. Share your business idea, your success story and get inbound free backlinks and traffic. Leave your comments, suggestions and thoughts. We enjoy reading all your submissions.

7 Rules To Success Through Affiliate Marketing

Success on the Web is not difficult. With the right information, the right tools, the right guidance and the right process, anyone can be a winner. The 5 Pillar Program provides you with all three!

It's important that you actually do the various preparatory steps. That is how to firmly plug yourself into your affiliate business.... Our Beginners Affiliate Marketing Guide show it all for FREE!

Remember… this is a real business, not some get-rich-quick scheme.

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning money online. These programs can help everybody make money through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more and more people are now willing in this business.

However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost you time and money. That is why it is better to learn how to avoid huge mistake I made on the way to going from a complete newbie to a professional affiliate marketer than be regretful in the end.

When I started looking for ways on how to make money online I believed the lies about affiliate marketing being easy money and I can start generating profits even if I’m a marketing dummy, have no website and no Internet connection! The result was a failure during the first two years!

In this article I want to share with you the "7 Rules To Success Through Affiliate Marketing" to start your Home Based Affiliate Marketing Business the right way.

1 - Get The Needed Knowledge

Derek Curtis Bok said: "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" Well said!

The first common mistake most of us make is not taking enough time to educate ourselves about the subject matter and the principles involved in their business. This refers to the businesses’ start up preparation and management knowledge in particular.

It will be difficult to you if you are lacking the necessary affiliate marketing knowledge. To achieve success, you need to learn what it takes to be successful in your new business venture. Educating yourself by reading and talking with others is key before getting started.

2 - Create Your Own Website

Most of affiliate programs owners try to make it easy for us to start promoting their products. Some of them may say: You don’t need your own website to star making money through affiliate programs. This not true! I tried it myself and the results were very low.

If you want to create a home business that lasts you need to have your own website. If you want your customers to see you as a professional affiliate marketer, you must have your own web presence. 

Promoting your affiliate program’s web page doesn't help your business to grow. You need your own website with your own brand identity, hosted in your own web domain. Otherwise, today’s savvy internet prospects will pass you by.

3 - Choose The Right Affiliate Program

The appeal of money is very seductive. Money is very attractive. For that reason I joined any program that promised to make me millions overnight. I didn't take the time to look for the right program. As a result, I wasted a great amount of time and money.

So, Instead of jumping head first, try to choose a program that will give you the results you're looking for. For any attempt to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.

Pick a program that appeals to you. Then do some research about that program to see if it is a good one. Promoting a product that isn't interesting and/or you aren't passionate about is harder than promoting a product you like and appeals to your potential buyers.

4 - Don’t Join Too Many Affiliate Programs At Once.

Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, I joined multiples affiliate programs at once thinking that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.

This is true, and it is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time prevented me from concentrating on each one of them. As a result, I didn’t make the maximum potential of any affiliate program and I didn’t generate the income I expected.

The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then you can now join another affiliate program and so on.

The technique is to do it slowly but surely. Affiliate marketing does not generate huge profits overnight, but will slowly build momentum. There is really no need to rush while climbing levels, especially with affiliate marketing.

5 - Buy The Product Or Use The Service You Want to Promote.

One of my biggest mistakes as an affiliate was not testing the program’s services and not using the product before promoting it.

Going through the entire purchase process to buy the product, will help you evaluate the program’s services and the product from the users’ perspective to see if it is delivering what they want it to deliver is your ticket to effectively and convincingly promote a product.

As an affiliate, you main purpose is to convince your clients and potential customers to buy the product. To achieve this goal, you must be able to communicate to the customers the benefits of the product you are promoting. It is difficult for you to do this when yourself haven’t tried what you are promoting out. Therefore, you will fail to recommend them convincingly and create desire in your customers to buy what you are offering.

Write quality articles about your offerings and live testaments aware of their advantages and disadvantages will show you as an ethical and credible marketer. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.

6 - Stuffing Banners Without Interesting Information

It’s easy to stuff a web site with banners. But it’s very hard to convince your blog’s visitors to buy from you this way! Online users are looking information about how to make money, save time, become healthier, use a product, etc…and banners do not provide enough information. The best way to battle this mistake is to provide good content hand-in-hand with such banners. It is important for customers to know and understand what’s on it for them before buying your product, and good content will be able to help them out.

7 - Build Your Email List.

If you don't have an email list, you don't have an Internet business.

Building an email list was the best advice I ever received! From that time my income never stopped growing.

The first step in business success is to build a profitable customer base. The biggest mistake of most affiliate marketers is that they do not collect their customers email addresses and start a relationship with them. They just make a sale and go on to look for new customer.

This is a wrong marketing way. Why? Because statistics show that it can be as much as 10 times easier and cheaper promoting something to someone that has bought from you before, than offering something to a stranger or getting a new one to buy.

People that have bought from you now trust you. As a result they will do business with you again and again. And the more your customers trust you, the easier it will be to sell to them.

All in all, affiliates that are ruined in this business are those who do not apply enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in. Knowing your path step by careful step will prove to be beneficial to you, as there is no other way to succeed than to go through any path slowly but surely.

Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.

Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to Make Money Online with Affiliate Program.

What Affiliate Scheme Is Right For You?

How do I know if a particular affiliate scheme is right for me?
This is a frequently asked question by new business starters looking to make money from affiliate programs. There are various affiliate schemes you are likely to come across. If you don’t know what differentiates these programs you may be wondering how to find a good one and which ones to avoid.

There is always confusion between affiliate programs, MLM, Pyramid Schemes, and Matrices. With an affiliate program you earn commissions on all sales resulting from your efforts to promote the product or service. With MLM, Matrices and pyramid programs you earn commissions by introducing others to the program and from their promotions as well as your own.

Multi tiered affiliate programs and MLM programs are similar but generally affiliate programs are free to join where as MLM programs include a joining fee or some sort of initial investment.

Affiliate schemes are a very popular way to earn money online today. However, do you know what to look for in an affiliate schemes? It is important that you know what makes the best affiliate scheme to be successful before you sign up with any program. An affiliate scheme with a high reputation will enable you to succeed because it will be much easier for you to make sales.

There are many traps and pitfalls present in this business, which may result in loss of commissions. Doing business with reputable affiliate schemes is the only way to avoid such constraints. If you do not research this aspect, you risk joining an affiliate scheme which is a scam.

Here are several aspects to consider when looking for the right affiliate scheme to promote for long term success.

Affiliate Programs

There are hundreds of variations of affiliate programs. Things varying wherever from pay per click to paid per lead to pay per action, and other things in between. As an affiliate, it is your “job” to advertise the program you are affiliated with. ClickBank.com, Amazon.com, Commission Junction, Linkshare and Befree are probably the biggest of all affiliate networks on the net.

As an affiliate, your earnings will depend on how many visitor you send to your affiliate program and take action, either purchase a product, sign-up to a list, click on an ad or any other important action.

When you look into affiliate programs, you will notice that there are all kinds of them. The ones that I am interested in right now are the single-tier programs, two-tier affiliate programs, and multi-tier affiliate programs. You may not understand what the difference is, but there is a difference.

These types of affiliate marketing are based on the different levels or tiers that you will get paid within the network. Let me explain...

Single-tier Affiliate Programs - In single-tier affiliate programs you are paid one time. When a visitor goes to the merchant website through your affiliate link and complete the wanted action you get a commission one time.

Some examples of single-tier are Google Adsense pay per click (PPC), pay per lead (PPL) affiliate programs and many other programs pay only one time.

Two-tier Affiliate Programs - It’s a Kind of Multi Level Marketing scheme, whenever you’re a member of an Affiliate Program there’s usually extra incentive to recruit members underneath you. Rewards range from a percentage cut of Profits to one time payments.

Two-tier affiliate programs pay affiliates in two ways. They pay direct sales generated by affiliates, and also pay affiliates for bringing new affiliates into the program.

Here’s how it works.

If you are an affiliate of a program that pays you 45% commission when you made a sale, they will pay you also 10% or a flat fee of the total earnings of the affiliates that sign up directly under you.

But you should be cautious of any affiliate program that…
- Stress on the earnings you can make by recruiting affiliates than on the earnings from selling products or services.

- Pay a very low first-tier commission but a very high second-tier payment. These programs may fall under MLM, Pyramid schemes, or Matrices (more on this later)

Multi-tier affiliate programs - Multi-tier affiliate programs are similar to the 2-tier programs; but Multi-tier affiliate programs reward affiliates who sign up other affiliates several levels "deep".

For example, if Affiliate-1 recruits Affiliate-2 and Affiliate-2 recruits Affiliate-3 who makes sales and get commission, then Affiliate-1and Affiliate-2 get reward either from the efforts of Affiliate-3.
Affiliate programs can fall under a lot of categories and they have different types of rewarding system. As said above some programs are single-tier affiliate programs, some are two-tier affiliate programs, some others combine several different rewarding types into a single affiliate program. Affiliate programs can be very lucrative if done correctly, and I know a lot of people who make a nice income purely from working them.

You don't necessarily have to refer other people to be able to make money from affiliate programs, but it will usually help you to earn MORE cash than what you’d get by your own efforts.

One thing you need to succeed in affiliate programs is to make sure you are interested in the product you are promoting and capable to talk about it from experience. On my site you will see banners and links for Site Build It. I used the FREE information provided by this program to learn how to succeed in affiliate marketing. I used its free tools to build my website. So, of course I have knowledge of how it works, what people are saying about it, and most of that it gives you all the tools need to succeed as an affiliate. I feel it is the best program online so I can promote it and I'm receiving emails from happy people thanking me for doing it.

What Are MLM, Matrices and Pyramid Schemes

Have you ever wondered what the difference between these programs is?

MLM, pyramid schemes and Matrices operate almost similarly. However they differentiate each other in the importance of recruiting others to join the program. With these programs recruiting downlignes is their major concern. The more people you recruit the more benefit you will gain. In general they promote expensive and mediocre products, if there are any products to promote.

MLM - In MLM, the participants always gain from their investment. The catch is in the value of the product that the participant receives. In general the product is very expensive and with no significance. Also, some MLM’s promoters cheat their customers. This is the reason that MLM is not legal in many countries.

With so many MLM programs on the market these days, originators have tried to make their programs more desirable than others. For this reason you can find some legal MLM programs in some sense.

In a regular MLM program, your monetary gains are based entirely on how good you are at marketing the program. However, most people aren’t' very good. So it would benefit the less talented if they had help from the talented.

Matrices - Matrices are MLM programs but they work differently. Basically, if the number of people who can join under you is limited in any way, then it's a forced matrix. The idea being, if you refer any extra one will go under someone else. The best implementations put the extra person under one of the people YOU have under YOU. Therefore it helps the person under you, which helps you too.

The term is tossed around a bit, and sometimes not used at all. However, that is what defines a forced matrix. Sometimes numbers are used to describe a forced matrix more thoroughly, such as "4 X 4 forced matrix" for instance. This could mean that you can only have 4 people directly under you and only 4 people under those 4 who you receive commissions from.

There is a hybrid idea that has become common now, where by a person can deliberately place a referral in another line of their choice. A sort of traffic control attributes that helps originators get their referrals interested. This has been an attempt to make regular MLM more appealing.

The benefits of either are about equal. With a forced matrix, you stand to earn an income faster, but increases in income are slower because your referrals get forced further down the line from you. With regular MLM you have a stronger base, and sustaining it is generally easier, but first profits can be slow.

Some programs they don’t even have a product for you to sell, just empty promises of returns once you sign people up. Sign them up for what exactly?

Pyramid Scheme - With a pyramid scheme everyone in the hierarchy chain receives payments from people recruited by them (below them in the chain) and makes payments to those (above them) in whose recruiting line they fall.

This structure where commissions depend primarily on recruiting more and more members at increasingly lower levels is unsustainable and will eventually collapse.

Pyramid Schemes are illegal in many countries. We all know how these schemes work, or at least get the general idea. A person (the originator) starts by sending a message to several people. Usually people he/she knows. The message in some round about way, will tell everyone to send him $5 or so, and then send the message to someone else. All the while adding names to the list, and each new recipient must send money to the first person, second person...etc

There are a million variations of the Pyramid Scheme, but the main attribute that defines a pyramid scheme ( also known as chain letter) is that there is no product, it's just people sending money. The term "Pyramid Scheme" is derived from the fact that it starts with one and the size of those involved increases as you move towards the bottom.

How is MLM different from a pyramid scheme? After all, on paper any MLM looks like a pyramid in reality right? The differences are very simple. In MLM there is a product being sold. Income is generated from "commissions". It's actually a pyramid scheme, except that the participants get something back regardless of whether the people they refer actually pay for something.

To start with there is nothing wrong with MLM programs. There is however a stigma attached to it because so many people have been burnt by them before. When you think about it though it makes sense, refer people to a product and get a commission it happens in everyday life all the time. Then those people you found go out and get sales and you get a smaller percentage but are still rewarded for your efforts of finding that person.

I hate MLM programs not because I can’t make money with but in most cases they don't deliver what they promise. There are legal MLM programs with good products and it's your JOB to find the one that can make you money.

Do some people succeed in MLM? Sure, and many of them are honest people. But they work incredibly long, hard hours, and are blessed with a natural charisma that allows them to draw people to them. This is something very difficult for the average guy to duplicate.

Affiliate marketers who are serious about building a business should be reading and learning about business fundamentals, the latest sales and marketing techniques, strategies for networking and business development, building your own website is your best way to succeed. Act like an expert on your field, and people will follow you.

Home Based Affiliate Marketing Business Start Up Secrets to Success.

I'm sure you want to own the best home based affiliate marketing business and be the kind of affiliate who gets a steady flow of monthly fat checks. 

There are thousands of affiliates making really good living online. However, it is sad to know that only a small percentage of affiliates are successful. 

Nearly 95% of them can not make money at all or they make just few hundreds of dollars each month, and the major reason is that they start without any knowledge about the affiliate marketing business.

Starting an affiliate marketing business is easy, as the initial costs are very low. But it is a business like any other. If you don’t treat your affiliate marketing business as a real business, don’t expect to make money.

When I started thinking about building my first home based affiliate marketing business to make money online I was thinking on how one is able to make money… big money and very fast! I believed at the marketing hype surrounding affiliate marketing business.

I believed that I can become rich and buy my influence and greatness like Bill Gates without doing anything, no website needed, no marketing knowledge, no programming knowledge, no business knowledge, etc…. I was an idiot. 

I was a goddamn idiot because I believed on all what they say…. So, I started joining any program that promises me instant reaches....

Like most of new business starters I spent thousands of hours working without getting a penny! In fact I wasn't entirely convinced that decent money could be made by affiliates in such ways....

...Well, I'm pleased to say that if you do things properly there's plenty of money out there. Of course the first and biggest step in doing things properly is finding out if you have what it takes to be a successful affiliate marketer.

Here are some of the elements that you need to consider in engaging yourself in affiliate marketing business:

Do You Want to Build an Affiliate Marketing Business Or Play a Game?

In case that you are planning to get yourself involved in affiliate marketing business, bear in your mind that it is a serious work. 

Though it is one of the easier ways to make additional or full time income, it still involves effort, perseverance, and a clear plan of action from your starting point to your end result.

In fact about 90% of affiliates fall flat wretchedly and give up in less than 1 year! From the 10% only 2 or 3% make it really big, the rest of the 7 to 8% just survive or are fairly successful. Do you know what makes the difference between them?

More specifically, do you know what it takes to be a successful affiliate? While there are many points to be considered, only some few select are really very important. 

Make sure you do understand that you should be building a long-term affiliate marketing business and not just something that makes you few dollars.

These are the ones that will actually make or break your future. Having said that, let's jump right in!

1 - Treat your affiliate marketing business as a real Business.

You can’t succeed if you don’t treat your affiliate marketing business as a real business. Most people when first start online, are not serious about their home business. They either do not acquire the needed skills and knowledge or do not make enough efforts and time dedicated to business planning and implementation.

When you are not serious in the thing that you are doing, most of the time you will fail. 

When you start to treat your affiliate marketing business like a real business, you will start to acquire the needed knowledge and skills, plan and execute the strategies to make your business a success. Then and only then you will see real results which can be affiliate incomes or business profits.

2 - What passion, expertise, or hobby to Turn Into a cash exploding affiliate marketing business?

Inside each of us there is an expert. What you have learned at School or College, in your day to day work? Are you a doctor, cars repairing, painter, etc..? 

Do you have an interesting hobby such as music, artwork, or photography? Or may be you love sports or travelling. 

Do you have a garden where you grow flowers? Do you love pets? All these things can help you make money with affiliate programs.

If you have a hobby or any expertise in anything at all, there are people out there who would like to learn from you, and they will pay to learn from you.

It's exciting and financially rewarding to turn your special talents into a successful home-based business. That's exactly what a lot of successful home businesses did. 

Most of them turned their hobbies or expertise into lucrative online businesses.

That is why many of people today go online to start home businesses; their reasons are either to supplement their income or to expand their local businesses to a worldwide level.

3 - Do you know your strengths and weaknesses?

You have to know what your strengths are, the things in which you are good at, your capabilities and abilities related to your chosen field. 

While it is important for you to know your strengths, you will also need to know your weaknesses as well. 

In order to become successful at anything, you have to know your weaknesses.

Know your weaknesses and work to improve on them. If you don’t know your weaknesses you don’t know what to improve. 

My belief is when applying for any job anywhere, you should know your weaknesses and have a plan to deal with them.

4 - Do you have the needed skills for starting home Based affiliate marketing business?

To be an affiliate marketer is not an easy task. You must have at least some basic knowledge for doing business online to get started. 

It's necessary to be well trained and have to learn the techniques of marketing your product or service in order to achieve success in this career.

You should learn how to listen and to be taught because in life we need to learn skills to get by. You must learn how to become an affiliate marketer.

In case you are relatively unfamiliar with business principles and concepts, you can get the necessary training that you need before you start joining any affiliate program. 

Some people thinks that just by having affiliate links on their website will bring them good profits. Some others think that by sending traffic to the affiliate program they will succeed. This is far from the truth.

You can start by finding FREE quality ebooks to learn from how to become an affiliate marketer. You can also find some affiliate-marketing professionals who already earned substantial extra income and let them guide you on the system. 

The Internet also offers different resources and conference programmes, which you can attend to learn how to become an affiliate marketer.

5 - You need to be creative.

You should to be creative. The real key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to develop a good content based website and weave your affiliate links into all your content. 

You have to provide your prospects with good, quality content to keep them coming back to your site.

Provide good information to help your customers and potential customers make money, save time, or solve problems. 

Make available resources and learning opportunities. Give people reasons to keep returning to your website to buy from you again and again. Build and maintain relationship marketing with your customers and prospects.

6 - Create a system.

The key for any business to succeed be it online or offline is to have a good system. To find such a good system, you can try to model the best persons around in the business. Study their system and find out how they work and how you can leverage on them.

Most Super Affiliates have spent a lot of time joining and studying other peoples systems before establishing their own. 

They usually are super affiliates that have good systems with good payout too. The best way to learn is to model from a successful one!

7- Do you have a place where you can setup your home based affiliate marketing business’ office?

Having your little home office is the initial element that you need to consider in starting your business career. 

Have your office workspace comfortable to work with. Make sure to get the necessary tools and utilities to make your work life less stressful, more satisfying and more enjoyable.

Never, Never Give Up

A real business takes time to grow and be successful. You cannot expect to earn some big bucks fast from your affiliate marketing business. 

Do not be disappointed if you make some efforts and not see the results you want. 

This doesn't mean that you are on the wrong track. The important thing is to work consistently and never give up.

The Bottom Line

Before you begin your affiliate marketing business’ venture decide:

• What your first priority is.

• What field you want to focus on?

• What products do you know the most and which products you could do the best job of selling?

• Learn, learn....and learn how to become an affiliate markter.

Now that you have known what it takes to create a home based affiliate marketing business, I hope you treat your affiliate marketing business seriously and take appropriate actions to make it a success.