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by Richard A. Martin, Ric

But, what about affiliate marketing...Are the rumors true?

Do people actually make money online consistently from affiliate marketing?

Yes, they do...and so can you...

Affiliate marketing is estimated to be a $6Billion industry now & for people who've been at it for a while, the game gets pretty easy. Once you've got a good strategy, it's all about how many times you can execute it & how fast...

Making money from affiliate programs is kind of like learning how to play basketball- once you learn a solid technique (hopefully from a pro who can give you pointers), you need to then practice until it hurts...running the steps over in your mind both on the court & off the court until the process becomes almost like 2nd nature...

Affiliate marketing at it's most basic level involves 2 parties: merchants (not you) & affiliates(you). The affiliates send merchants traffic- if that traffic converts, the affiliate makes money...

Making money from affiliate programs is kind of like being a broker...After you generate traffic, you broker the traffic to whoever can convert it in exchange for a commission. The more converting traffic you send a merchant, the more money you make...(notice, I said "converting"...)

After doing it for a little while, you start to develop a better feel for which offers convert the best...& which type of traffic to send where. There is a little more to it, but that's the basic principle...

Affiliate marketing is also called "partner marketing". You & the merchant have a partnership...

So, Here are 3 of the steps involved in making money as an affiliate if you plan on driving traffic from a content site to an affiliate offer:

1) You need to have a website from which to send traffic. You can get a free domain or own one yourself...I recommend owning your own domain as it allows you a lot more freedom in choosing what content you can put on your site & it gives your site a lot more legitimacy vs. having your content on a subdomain of another site...though, free hosts can be powerful link building tools...

2) You need to generate very targeted "buyer" traffic for that website which you can, in turn, send to a merchant & hopefully make a commission. The traffic quality is critical. 10,000 people interested in seeing free pictures of giraffes generally won't do much good if you are promoting a skin care product...the traffic you send to a skin care offer should be at least somewhat related to health, beauty, or optimally, buying skin care products...

3) You need to locate merchants that have offers that convert. In other words, if you do send them visitors, the MERCHANT's sales page has to actually turn potential buyers into real buyers...this gets into a little bit of a discussion related to direct response factors, so study some classic marketing books if you want to learn about how to tell whether or not a offer likely converts...

Those are the 3 main concepts...It gets a lot more tricky than that, but those are what affiliate marketing boils down to...

Affiliate marketing is great to learn about & it is quite possible to make money from affiliate programs quickly once you have a profitable format...


Needing to have money coming in fast, right now creates a very sressful environment. When the pressure is on and the need to make some money quickly is required, we often don't make our best decisions. Often through desperation and downright panic, we make knee-jerk decisions which often which aren't always the best over the long-term. Whatever has brought someone to the point that they need to make money fast, it can often cloud judgement and force us to grab at the first half-decent thing that seems to come along as a possible solution.

We've personally been in that position; we've been at a place where we needed to make some money fast. Here are 3 ways that we identified that can work for you...

1. Affiliate Marketing - don't be confused or intimidated by this term; it's simply the case of identifying a product you think there may be a demand for, ascertaining if they have an affiliate program (a commission payout) for that product, then figuring out how to get people to buy that product through your unique affiliate ID number or code. Then, every time someone does, you earn a commission.

Many large, high profile companies now run affiliate marketing programmes - Ebay, Amazon, etc - and any business you send them through your affiliate ID number will earn you a commission. And yes, to solve your issue now regarding can you make money fast with Affiliate marketing - yes you can. Many affiliate programmes pay out either fortnightly or even weekly, so you could be earning some healthy commissions pretty quickly.

The question that was on our mind when we looked at this, and it's probably on yours, is how do we get people to buy the products we want to promote through our affiliate ID? The good news is that many companies who run these affiliate programmes also have a whole support system in place to give you great ideas, help, information and support to show you ways to 'promote' your Affiliate ID to the world, and in doing so, earn yourself commissions.

2. Surveys - we had heard a lot about 'taking surveys' as a way to make money fast now; some of what we had heard was really good, but sadly some not so good. So rather than take other's opinions we decided to join some of the most popular survey companies and see what they offered, and whether their promises stacked up in their ability to make money fast.

Generally 'taking surveys' to earn money does actually work, and certainly CAN bring in a reasonable income each day very quickly, though we did discover there is a huge difference between what each of the survey companies offer, and yes there are clearly good and bad ones.

If you are the type of person who enjoys data entry or form filling, then you will love making money from surveys. If you're not, then we have to warn you that it's likely you will find it somewhat boring, though taking surveys can clearly get the money coming in quickly, and so if that's your goal this is clearly a serious option IF you pick the right company.

3. Doing Freelance Work - If you can write, design, programme, are artistic, creative, can motivate or inspire, then there are loads of opportunities for you out there right now. The freelance market is one of the fastest growing sectors.

Simply put; more and more companies, small businesses and individuals are finding they need someone who they can employ on a freelance basis (so not formally employed) to do some work for them. So a whole industry has emerged of primarily home-based freelance workers who offer their services to freelance agencies who have a database of clients with work projects that they need someone to help them with.

And you will be amazed at how many people will want your services. If the idea of working from the comfort of your own home, working the hours that suits you, and yet still having the ability to earn good money quickly, then you need to consider becoming a freelance worker. Again, rather like survey work, there are good and bad companies out there acting as freelance agencies, sadly of which many don't deliver what they say. But if you find the right company to work with, you certainly can earn a very healthy income as a freelancer.
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