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Starting a money making business is a lot easier than you think. With an affiliate marketing business you don't have to have your own product or a service to offer. You make money by sending traffic to someone else's product or service. Each time someone purchases after following your affiliate link, you get paid. Affiliate marketing is a simple and profitable business that can be set up in less than 30 minutes. Affiliate marketing is an agreement between you and a product or service creator. You agree to send traffic to the website of the product or service and the creator agrees to pay you when someone purchases. You'll normally receive a percentage of a sales price or a flat rate. There are affiliate programs available for almost every product or service under the sun. You can either find affiliate programs through an affiliate network like Clickbank or by contacting manufacturers directly. Most new affiliate marketers like to work with affiliate networks because they have clear payment terms and a stable of products and services to choose from. In addition to Clickbank, you can find affiliate products at Paydotcom and Commission Junction. Ebay and Amazon also have affiliate programs that you can earn with. Let me show you an example of affiliate marketing. You start a blog about golf techniques and post weekly about how to shave points off of your score. You recommend using a certain type of golf club and have a link from the name of the club to Amazon.com where the club is for sale. If the readers of the blog click on the link and buy the clubs, you'll earn a commission. Alternatively, you can link from your blog to an ebook on improving your golf game that is sold through Clickbank. The best part about affiliate marketing is that you don't have to worry about making the sales pitch or handling delivery of the product. You direct the traffic and earn a commission when a sale is made. You are just in charge of choosing the affiliate program and sending the traffic to the vendor's website. Getting started with affiliate marketing is as simple as choosing the program you want to promote. You can either find a niche market first and then pick a product, or find a product and figure out whether or not it will be profitable. Using keyword research tools you can come up with terms that are popular and that are related to the affiliate product. By using these terms on your website or in your articles, you can attract people who are looking for the type of product you are promoting. It can take you less than 30 minutes to find a product and set up a simple blog. With just a few posts, you'll start attracting attention from the search engines and visitors will come to your blog and, in turn, your affiliate links. It can't get any easier than that! Dan Higby is the author of eBiz Snap a free newsletter for online marketers of all experience levels. Fill your mind with business snap fill your pockets with profit with your own complimentary copy of eBiz Snap at http://eBizSnap.com ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
