Associate Programs:
Another way to earn a living through internet

Associate Programs, Affiliates programs or Bounty programs are all the same. These are programs that pay their associates (affiliates) commission for referring customer to their business

For example: Say like when you create an e-book, instead of sells that e-book by your own self and gain 100% of the sales, you create a associate programs where your marketing effort being branching out (networking) to other people (associate) and only get 50% for you own and another 50% for your associates. (you as the merchant (owner) decides your own percentage to give out)

By doing this, is a win-win situation for both the merchant and the associates (affiliates).

For the merchant's points of view, by partnering with affiliates (creates an associate programs) they are able to increase their sales and drive traffic to their website. This are a very low cost marketing strategy.

And, if you don't have a product of your own to sells, but craving to make money on the net, associate programs (affiliates programs) are the solution.

Affiliates Marketers

Why on earth you consider to become an affiliates marketers?

History has proven that many people became rich in their spare time, rather than their job. Apple Corporation, Google, Hewlett Packard and Ford Motor Company were started in garages and Dell Computers was started in a dormitory room. And a lot more other example that professional people work weekdays and in weekend they do a part time job such as real estate investor...focusing in making real money to Retire young and Retire rich.

From a book that I recently read "Retire young, retire rich - Robert T. Kiyosaki" - He said that we have to be a "highly leverage man". Leverage simply means the ability to do more with less. In other words, the rich always worked less and earned more. In order to do that, we have employ some form of leverage. Contrasted with that statement, "People who only work hard have limited leverage. If you're working hard physically and not getting ahead financially, then you're probably someone else's leverage". Those people who have money sitting in the bank in the saving account or retirement account,, than the others using your money as their leverage.
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Here, listed a HUGE benefit in becoming a affiliates marketer.

1) Low Set-up Cost and minimal risk
Comparing to conventional business, starting up a internet business is cheap and low maintenance. Moreover, there is no long term contracts binding you if your product don't sells.

2) No production cost
Every business, must have a product.One must creates a product that benefit for other people - these will involved a substantial amount of money and idea (time). By being an affiliates, you only promote other people product and there is no production cost involved.

3) No inventory to carry
If you doing a business selling products, by right you just have to keep stocks. Here, you have to figure out a storage area for the product. Being an affiliates, even though you only rent a room, selling a huge item is not a problem to you.Your stocks kept by the merchant - there is no need to have holding cost for a stock and storage area.

4) No need expensive Business / Account Tools
Businesses falls today is because no proper tools are used. As y ou start a business, of cause you have a limited capital. Hence, you will try to save to a lot of things.
Say like a accounts software, these are the tools that is very basic and important to controlled your business flow. It also can required quite an amount of money. Setting up a merchant account for any businesses are costly and also time-consuming. It is more tedious for a Internet business.
As an affiliates, there will no stock counting, no product shipping, no potential chargeback, fraud, losing accounts, even handling payment (credit card).

5) No employees
The largest expenses of most businesses is the employee salaries. Being an employer, you have a responsible to your employee and even their family. The sad thing is, what ever you do, it is just never enough from the eye of your employee.
By being an affiliates, there will be no employee under you, thus eliminate the worries every end of the month on how to pay other people.

6) No Customer Service Concerns
I'm working full time as an maintenance engineer. Trust me, 7 years experience in dealing with customer is not an easy task. So, why get your self to an unnessasarily presure - just leave it to the merchant to face the hassle on handling the customer complaint.

7) No sales experience required
The merchant will provide all the excellent marketing materials and steps by step way to start.

8) Wide variety of Product and Services
Internet is the biggest marketplace on earth. Plan and decides what to sells. Then look for the merchant .
i.e: if you wanted to sells Dell computer, just sign up with commission juction (www.cj.com) and become the Dell a affiliates.Besides that, you can even become Nike USA affiliates.
Companies like LinkShare, Clickbank, Commission Junction and BeFree already have thousand of thousand product that you can promote.

9)The world at your Doorstep.
The world is your customer, there is just a click away.

10) 24/7 Business.
Your store operates 24/7 even when you are asleep.

11) Huge Income Potential
If you have a fix job, your salary or hourly wage is probably pre-determined. Now days, people doing overtime to increase their income. With your own internet business, the limitation only by your desire, effort and imagination.
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Getting others to do the work for you!

Carried outcorrectly, associate programs (affiliates marketing) can be remarkably effective method for advertisers to get people to their site to buy things or to get more people to view their site so they can charge advertiser more, as more people will view their adverts.

Pay-Per-Sale. A very common type of affiliates programs. These are program that pay either a fixed dollar amount or a percentage of sales generated by your affiliates.

Pay-Per-Click. You will pay your affiliates each time they refer other people to your website without any sales results.

Both type will create a traffic.

This type programs works well with the web because you can track every part of the process through softwares. Every time an affiliates register with you, your software will create an id for them and a URL (special link) for them to advertise.

This are something that impossible for other media.
For example, you cannot tell exactly how many people have seen your newspaper advertisement or even your TV advertisement, but you can see exactly how many people have click your online advertisement. You can even justify, study your marketing effort.

So, how do we get started with affiliates marketing?
The easiest way to start is by a existing affiliates network (affiliates marketing service).These service function similarly to textual advertising networks in that they are intermediaries for online retailers and advertisement publishers.Companies like

BeFree
Commission Junction
Clickbank
Linkshare

Just register with them, they have all the system, payment, commission for your affiliates - this will be be take care by these companies. Plus, you will have access to the super affiliates that will promote your product like crazy as soon as it launched.
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