Success in the AP marketplace is not certain. Like any other



business venture--AP marketing success takes time, effort, and a

certain amount of investment before you receive a profitable

return.

Several articles have been written in the last six months about

how to build a successful Associate Program business. In fact,

I've written one of these articles [you can request a copy of

"Developing a Strategy That Will Earn You $3000.00 From Associate

Programs!" at mailto:earn$3000@infogeneratorpro.com].

One subject that hasn't been addressed is how the average person

can get an affiliate program up and running with a minimal

investment. In the next few moments I am going to show you

exactly how you can set up an affiliate program in less than 72

hours. With the exception of product development or acquisition,

your expense will be less than $100.00!

As a bonus, your bookkeeping responsibilities are going to be

limited. You see a third party, for a very minimal processing

fee, will do payment processing and affiliate recording keeping.

Ready to learn how to make some money? Great! Let's do it!

STEP ONE--GET YOUR PRODUCT

What are you going to be selling?

For starters, you will need a product or service that can be

delivered almost immediately via the Internet! Your options here

are not as limited as you may think. Perhaps you publish a

newsletter and want to increase your advertising revenue. Maybe

you've written an e-book and would like to earn some extra $$$ for

all your hard work. If you are a programmer, you might have a

handy software tool that you'd like to share with the masses. It

could be that you own the reprint rights to somebody else's

product and would like to sell these and start earning some

income!

For the purposes of this illustration, I have created an affiliate

program for selling advertising space in my Ezine, *The Success In

Life Newsletter."

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There are hundreds of other authors/programmers who provide resell

rights for their products. You've just got to take the time to

find the RIGHT ONE. Unless you've got a product in hand right

now, it could take a day or two to find something that you want to

resell. But it will be worth the effort.

(Please note that I am making NO promises as to how much money you

will make selling this product. I am offering this simply to

illustrate how quickly and easily you can set up your very own

affiliate program. When you've finished with this little project,

you'll be able to repeat this technique for ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE

you want to market.)

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Now that you have a product (or at least know what to look for) it

is time for...

STEP TWO--BUILD YOUR SALES PAGE

First you need web space! If you have a domain--that's great. For

our purposes, however, even one of those free sites will do.

[Remember--I am just showing you how to get started! When you've

finished this little project you'll be able to repeat it over and

over again in a much more sophisticated manner.]

1) Establish a FREE account right now with a free web host. This

should take you a little less that 30 minutes!

2) Write a sales letter to sell your product. If you need help

here I suggest you click over Yanik Silver's *Instant Sales

Letters* site. Yanik provides a terrific arsenal of powerful,

moneymaking fill-in-the-blank sales letter templates guaranteed to

sell your product or service. Learn more

at-->http://www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R250_sales

[Hint: Most of the better reprint rights distributors will provide

you with proven sales letters].

3) Use a site creation tool to build a simple sales page to

promote you product. Avoid flashy graphics pictures. What you

need in the sales letter/information about the product you are

selling, and a link(s) to your payment-processing page.

Here's my example: http://ezinesuccess.com/advertise/silads.htm

STEP THREE--ARRANGE FOR ONLINE PAYMENT

You want to get paid for your product--right? That means you need

to provide people with the ability to pay for the product or

service you provide.

You do want to pay huge fees for processing, order tracking, or

special equipment--right? You'll have NO FEES for tracking and

processing affiliate sales. You'll have NO MONTHLY FEES for using

this service-->no sales, no fees! You'll pay less than $40.00 to

set-up your affiliate account and a minimal % for every sale you

or your affiliates make--that it!

The company is called ClickBank. They will allow you to start

accepting credit cards online! They also have incredibly easy

instructions for using their service to start your own affiliate

program. Getting set up with ClickBank took less than an hour.

Learn more at http://hop.clickbank.net/?nieporte

Your affiliate partner can open a FREE account at the above link

and then start selling your product or service--being compensated

at whatever percentage you determine. ClickBank not only

processes the credit card, they also track affiliate sales and pay

your partners. Here's how it works!

Your affiliates join FOR FREE--and are provide/select an affiliate

ID-->expressed below as XXXX.

You provide them the site URL and they simply insert their ID

where the XXXX is listed below. Then they promote that link in

whatever legal fashion they desire-->and get paid whatever % you

determine up to 50%.

http://www.ezinesuccess.com/ads/silads.htm?hop=XXXX/nieporte

That's it!

You have now entered the world of being an affiliate program

owner. Congrats!