Affiliate Marketing? No Thanks, Ill Take The MLM

Written by Adam Woods Friday, 01 July 2011 10:54

Among the richest people you see in the marketing industry, some owe their fortune to Affiliate marketing. From this business plan they have been able to gather affiliate marketing riches which they use to furnish their lavish lifestyles. But what really is affiliate marketing?

Among the richest people you see in the marketing industry, some owe their fortune to Affiliate marketing. From this business plan they have been able to gather affiliate marketing riches which they use to furnish their lavish lifestyles. But what really is affiliate marketing?

But what really is affiliate marketing? Simply put, it's an advanced marketing strategy where you promote a Company's product and win as many customers as possible to the product. This marketing tool has worked for people who are shy to going out and talk to people about the product. All you have to do, to earn your affiliate marketing riches, is to create product content and buying links to the product on the website of the company you work with. On the other hand you can give positive feedback on the product from your own blog page and attract customers.

The promotion is a bit different from the conventional marketing plans. With affiliate marketing, you can blog about the Company product and then get buyers to follow the links to the Company website where they can place their orders. Alternatively, you can review the product, in an interesting way, on the affiliate Company's website and also create purchase links on the website where customers can know where to buy the product.

Just by doing the two above basics, you watch your affiliate marketing riches grow to an astronomical level never imagined. The affiliate marketing Company has even topped the icing on the cake by bringing in the 2-tier affiliate program. With this new program, the affiliate marketer is required to attract customers to buy the product and also attract new affiliates into the system to do the same work. With the successive recruits you get, you get to earn bonuses from the customers as well as from your own.

With this simple-sounding plan, you would expect every potential affiliate marketer to drive an SUV months after starting; however, most of them bail out because of mistaken assumptions. One of these assumptions is that you can bring in new affiliates and live from their bonuses without working at all. The business is a 'monkey see, monkey do' scenario; if you slack your affiliates slack and so does the possibility of affiliate marketing riches. Which is why MLM is the better option; first is the advantage of creating more bonus levels as opposed to the strict two in affiliate marketing. Moreover, you can't exploit your workers since completing your own personal sales volume is the key to winning their bonus volumes.

But here is the catch, you cannot claim the down-line bonuses if you haven't completed your own sales volumes. So basically it is not easy to sit and relax while your down-lines toil by the day. MLM is also better since there is credibility in the product sold; most MLM Companies encourage their sellers to use the product before selling. This way you are guaranteed quality when sold to.