Why would anyone want to be an affiliate ?

By Hendra Subrata Liu

When you get online looking for ways to supplement your income
without own product(s) to sell...
Or even if you would have had your own products, you may not have the
knowledge required to know how to sell them online.

There are a bunch of companies on the Internet that will allow you
to fill out a short application and INSTANTLY become their affiliate.
These companies provide the products for you to sell, give you websites
and marketing tools to sell them with, follow-up with any prospects you
send their way, close the sale, ship the products, handle customer service
and complaints, and do virtually all the stuff you would have to do if you were
selling your own products.

Then whenever someone you send to that company buys
something, you get paid a commission for it. It's a win-win
situation. The company is looking for more people to promote
their products and they only pay a commission when an actual
sale is generated. As an affiliate, you don't have all the
burden of providing the product or service, following-up,
closing the sale, handling customer satisfaction issues,
dealing with "problem people", etc. You just get people to
the company's website and the company takes care of all that
for you.

So being an affiliate is really a mindset thing. Would you
rather run a company that is responsible for providing the
product or service, starting relationships with prospects,
following up relentlessly to close the sale, shipping the
product, handling returns, dealing with all the customer
service issues including people who are only want to give
you a hard time... A lot of people love doing those
things and that's great.

Or would you rather simply focus on bringing prospects to
the table and letting the company do all the work
for you? This is the choice of an affiliate.

The amazing thing about affiliate marketing is that you can
often earn a lions share of the profit. Yes, many companies
are willing to pay you more than they earn themselves for
making a sale.

That's why affiliate marketing (when done intelligently) is
the BEST way to make money online.

And that's a BIG secret right there. There are THOUSANDS of
affiliate programs on the Internet. But the fact is you
could put the exact same energy into one program as you do
another and earn 100 times more. You MUST choose the RIGHT
programs if you are going to succeed in affiliate marketing.

But many people fail in this business simply because they joined
the WRONG program(s). They put their heart and soul into
promoting it, but it never produced big profits for them.
These people leave the Internet thinking that affiliate
marketing is a scam, but the truth is often that they just
joined the wrong programs. If they would have put the same
energy into another affiliate program (one that actually
converts prospects into customer and pays the lion's share
of the profits), they would have succeeded.

So think about that as you continue your journey of learning
about affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing can be the
easiest and the best way to make money online because you
can get started INSTANTLY (even if you have no products of
your own or prior experience) and the company handles all
the balance work for you. But affiliate marketing can really
only be the easiest and best way to make money online IF you
choose the RIGHT programs to promote.

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