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Starting a Home Based Business in Affiliate Marketing is Fairly Simple and VERY Rewarding

Affiliate programs are all about selling other people's stuff. This a good way for you to get started with a home business quickly and without much money.

Before going further, I need to correct something, though. I said 'selling' other people's stuff. But in fact, affiliates doesn't sell anything. The job of an affiliate marketer is to PREsell.

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What does PREselling mean? Warming up your prospect… getting her in the mood to buy from your affiliate merchant. This grows from trust.

Earnings can range from a few dollars to thousands of dollars every month, depending on the product or service and how good you are at PREselling.

Affiliate programs A.K.A.…

Associate programs
Partner programs
Reseller programs
Revenue-sharing programs
Referral programs

Successful affiliates build relationships

Job #1 of an affiliate marketer — that's YOU — is gaining the trust and confidence of visitors who come to your site. You do that by consistently providing them with the information they came looking for.

High-quality, high-value information.

The content you provide should educate and motivate your audience to visit merchants you've formed a partnership with.

Let the merchant do the selling. Just make certain that the affiliate programs you partner with offer quality goods and services. That's part of the trust factor.

Keep your focus on these 3 key points …

HOW you reach your visitor.
WHAT you say to her.
How you REFER her to your merchant.

Remember what I said earlier… your job as an affiliate it to PREsell. That means building trust by giving your targeted visitors quality, useful information.

Credibility and trust is the foundation of a good affiliate marketer, and you develop it through honest, straightforward COMMUNICATION.

That said, before you commit to ANY affiliate program, you need to consider some things…

Know the products you're recommending. The best way to do this is to own them and use them.
Only promote useful products. Stick with products that provide your visitors with the best possible value
Be professional. Simply throwing up a few links on your site won't cut it. You want to give your visitor the information they want to build trust and put her in a warm, willing-to-buy mood ( PREselling )

10 Steps to Becoming a Successful Affiliate

These 10 steps will greatly enhance your chances of succeeding.

Set a goal.

Be specific. For example, if you want to earn $500 a day/week/month, set that as your specific goal.
Be realistic... don't set your goal too high or too low. You don't want to fall short and get discouraged.

Find and choose a PROFITABLE niche.

Think about what lights your fire… this is a good place to start.
Read Ken Evoy's free Affiliate Masters Course. It gives the best advice on how to find a niche you're interested in
Research profitable keywords using Search It! or Wordtracker. If you use Site Build It, it has a superb Brainstorming Tool… use it.
NOTE: Do these things BEFORE you choose your domain name or build your site.

Find affiliate merchants that correspond with your niche.

Choose reputable companies who offer quality products and services.

Build a relevant, useful website for your niche.

Develop a high-value, theme-based website with lots of relevant content. Search engines will love you.
Read Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook. She reveals her highly successful step-by-step secrets for building affiliate websites
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Place affiliate links on your site.

Weave affiliate links naturally into your content rather than creating a links page.
Remember that you are building a relationship with your visitor, so think about what he or she may be thinking — speak to your visitor
Don't forget that your job as an affiliate is to PREsell. Trust the affiliate merchant to make the sale

Monetize your site.

Once your site starts getting good traffic, find other ways to generate income.
Place AdSense ads on your website.

Reciprocal links

Research sites with similar or related themes to yours that are popular; place a link to them on your site.
Next, email those sites to ask for a reciprocal link. Include the HTML for your link so they can simply copy and paste your link code.
Value Exchange is a nifty link exchange tool that works really well… try it.

Use anchor text.

Anchor text are words used in hypertext links. For example, if the topic of your page is tennis, place the word 'tennis' in a link. Anchor text can help boost your search engine rankings, but don't overuse.

Submit your site to search engines and directories.

Google, Yahoo! and MSN are the big three, but don't forget about niche and specialty search engines.
Search It! is a handy FREE tool for finding niche directories.

Continue adding pages and links to your website.

Search engines love fresh, relevant, theme-based content, so update your site often.
Add more links to popular related websites.

Finally… just do it! You won't get anywhere if you don't start!

My Top Pick of Affiliate Programs

5 Pillar Affiliate Program

As an affiliate, you want to promote products and services of high-quality and high-value. The 5 Pillar Club affiliate program offers the finest in the world.

This is an outstanding affiliate program. Affiliate support is outstanding, and it keeps improving all the time. There's even an active, hands-on affiliate manager to help you make more money — a lot more money.

Memberships are accepted on a strictly limited basis.

Highlights of the 5 Pillar affiliate program include…