Affiliate Marketing Network Program

For people looking to make money online affiliate marketing is one of the most popular methods to achieve this.You are essentially selling other people’s products by driving traffic to a merchant’s website.If a customer who clicked from your site to the merchant’s then buys a product you get a commission.

You don’t have to deal with the customer at all.Shipping and customer service is handled by the merchant.

Now you can go from one merchant to another and see if they have an affiliate program but that would take too long.

Much better to go to an affiliate marketing network program company who gather together a large number of merchants on one site,and you the affiliate marketer,can search for businesses who operate in the niche that interests you.

Then you sign up for that merchant,grab the HTML code for that merchant and put it on your website or blog.

Now the big two in affiliate marketing are

Commission Junction
and
Clickbank

which both have a huge amount of merchants to choose from.

Clickbank tends to offer more digital products such as ebooks and software whereas CJ offers physical products.

There are two others I use right now they are:

Affiliate Window

and

Buy.at

both of which are UK based so tend to have mainly British merchants.

I recommend you start with these big players first.If you really get into a niche,then do a Google search using ” xyz company+ affiliate program” and you should find if that company has such a program.

The alternative is to go to the company website and see if a program is offered.Sometimes you have to go into the site map to find details as the merchant is  looking for people with above average determination!

For more advice on affiliate marketing go to Mike Klingler’s Marketing Mergewebsite.

Network Marketing recruitment:sponsor up not down

You want to recruit as many people as you can into your network marketing business.Of course you do.But be careful about who you recruit.

What you need are leaders,not followers,and these people are likely to be those already in positions of authority.Either owning their own business or in a senior management position.

If you are just starting out in this business there is a temptation to recruit people who are in a lower social or employment position than you.So if you work in an office you might speak to co workers,but not senior management.This is understandable as you may feel intimidated by those above.

Similarly if you are at a networking meeting and you are introduced to a CEO you may feel very nervous about telling her about your opportunity.

Yet these are the very people you most want in your business.They have proved themselves as motivated, hard working people.How else could they have got to the position they are in?They are also ambitious and are always looking for ways to increase their wealth.

They might well be interested in our opportunity.So go ahead and tell them.

Then think about all the people they know who they could bring in.A successful business person commands respect and others will listen to her and what she recommends.

So they next time you are standing next to be big CEO,talk to them.Be proud of your opportunity.They will admire your courage and even if they do not join your business,they will probably refer you to someone who will.

To learn the secrets of online marketing,so you can say goodbye to old school recruitment methods forever go to my Squidoo lens  here.