Affiliate Marketing for Dummies - Part 1

What is affiliate marketing anyway?

Very simply, affiliate marketing is to promote someone else's product or services. It is not necessary to close as sale in order to make a commission. It depends on what the merchant is offering their affiliates. For example, you can be paid by sending visitor to their web site. As long a the visit take some action, like fill up a simple form, you will be paid a commission. That means you generate a lead for the merchant. The simple straight forward affiliate marketing is simple pay per sale. You make a sale, you are paid the commission. You are like a sales agent.

Important part of affiliate marketing is that you do not have to handle the customer service or support. You do not have to handle the warranty. All those are provided by the merchant. You also cannot make any claims about the warranty etc. Pay Per Sale affiliate marketing is the simplest to understand and is most suitable for beginners. So, I will focus on how you can get started on becoming an affiliate marketer.

Among the products, it is "simplest" to sell Information Product. I put the word "simplest" in quote because I am not referring to the ease of making a sale. I am referring to ease of setting up and start selling. You can easily set it up within half and hour. That is what I mean by easiest.

The simplest way to sell information product is to sell for Clickbank. Clickbank is a large wholesaler of information product in digital format. To start, just simple sign up for a clickbank account. Here is the link to sign up: Sign Up Clickbank Account.

Once You have signed up, you can start to look for product to sell. There are thousands of products in the Click Bank. Go the the market place and search.

Next topic we will cover where and how to find products.

Getting Started on Affiliate Marketing on Internet

What is the fastest way to see income from the Internet?

I believe the fastest way is to start becoming an Affiliate Marketer.

Read more about how to start to be an Affiliate Marketer from here:

http://www.bizgenerator.com/blog/?p=25

Get hold of the eBook and learn all the tricks and tips about making it a profitable business.

Wish You Success In Your Internet Marketing Adventure.

Randy

Beginning Your Internet Business

There are many ways to generate income from Internet (or doing Internet Business). In the beginning it was e-commerce web site using product catalog and shopping carts. Then, eBay was hot. Oh yeah, eBay is still hot.

Then you have adsense and affiliate marketing. You can also bring your MLM into the Internet and automate the recruitment process. Some of the quick examples here:

http://www.bizgenerator.com/

These are simple ways to get into Internet and start generating income.Of course, there are more to it than just putting up a web site. As a beginner, you may end up with information overload. So, where is the best place to start? Maybe, the above 2 web sites are too advanced for a beginner, you may want to start by getting hold of the following:

High Performance Affiliate Marketing

This is the eBook that I highly recommend to people because it covers from basic to intermediate to quite advanced topics. I found it very well written and explanations are very clear. Apart from that, you will get regular updates when the author adds new contents. Recently, the author sends out some spreadsheet templates on how to track your advertising cost, conversion rate so that you know which keywords are making money for you. Over here you can follow the steps and get started. Just click the link above and get a copy and read through it before you get started.

There are many good eBooks out there that I had purchased before. Many of them requires you to have some basic knowledge to start with. If you are receiving a lot of "secrets", "tips & tricks" and yet you don't even have Clickbank, Paypal account, then, you are probably looking at the wrong thing.

The next blog, I will start to talk about Affiliate Marketing and How you can get started with Affiliate Marketing easily.

If you already have some knowledge about Internet Marketing, you may want to visit this blog for more information:

http://www.bizgenerator.com/bog/

Whatever you want to do, make sure you give it some effort and time for it to take shape. Nothing happens over night.