Is Affiliate Marketing Right For Me?

Written by Owen Jones Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:35

There are more and more people trying to earn money on the Internet each day. Many are from the West, but even more are from developing countries. Some people from the West are scared of the economic decline and are searching for a backup to their current career and others dream of the millions that the press likes to say that teenagers are earning on the web.

There are more and more people trying to earn money on the Internet each day. Many are from the West, but even more are from developing countries. Some people from the West are scared of the economic decline and are searching for a backup to their current career and others dream of the millions that the press likes to say that teenagers are earning on the web.

People from developing countries can triple their wages by working on line. After all, if the family is earning $1 a day, they should be able to earn three more on line, they reason. That is just one affiliate sale a week in lots of cases at the normal rate of 10% of sale price.

Affiliate marketing is the most common way of attempting to earn money on line for several reasons. The first reason is because it is the simplest way to get going and the second is that many people are worried about composing - particularly in English, if English is not their mother tongue. Creating a web site is not a problem to many surfers who use the Net a lot.

Beginners to the Net imagine that earning money on line is as easy as copying a couple of affiliate links on to a web page and spamming the world with the URL. This tactic does not work, but it is the reason for so much of the junk email in your inbox every day.

There are professional spammers and even criminals on line for sure, but there are also hundreds of millions of optimistic teenagers sending out emails from cyber cafes all around the world.

The problems for these young affiliate marketing hopefuls is in essence twofold. The problem of not being able to write a convincing page of prose in English, more on which later and a lack of cash and especially an International credit card.

These aspects are concerns, practically insurmountable concerns because being able to compose is indispensable to the best form of marketing and being able to pay by credit card is indispensable to the other best methods of marketing.

The number one all time best way of making affiliate sales is to write a personal recommendation on a product based on personal experience with that product. So, if you cannot buy the product and you cannot compose, you have big problems indeed. It is a gaffe that most affiliate marketers make, to imagine that they have to write a sales page.

No, no and no, you do not. In most cases the firm you are selling for has spent hundreds if not thousands on convincing sales pages written by copywriters. You would have to be very good to beat their efforts. Your work as an affiliate is to pre-sell by writing about your experience with the item and providing a forward link to the sales page.

If you cannot do that, you can try the next best ways: PPC (pay per click) - you pay for each click on your advertisement whether that leads to a sale or not. Adsense is the number one proponent here. PPI (pay per impression) - you pay each time your ad appears on the publisher's network, whether it leads to a sale or not. In both cases, you need a credit card.

This is why there is so much spam, there are millions of hopefuls who cannot write adequately in English and/or who do not have a credit card to use the other methods.