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Is Affiliate Marketing Right For Me?

Posted on February 4th, 2012 by Owen Jones

There are more and more people attempting to earn money on the Internet every day. Lots of them are from the West, but even more are from developing countries. Some people from the West are scared of the economic downturn and are searching for a backup to their current career and others dream of the millions that the the media likes to say that teenagers are earning on the web.

People from developing countries can triple their wages by working on line. After all, if the family is earning $1 a day, they should be able to make three more on line, they reason. That is just one affiliate sale a week in many cases at the normal rate of 10% of sale price.

Affiliate marketing is the most common means of attempting to make money on line for a number of reasons. The first reason is because it is the easiest way to get started and the second is that many people are worried about composing – particularly in English, if English is not their first tongue. Creating a web site is not a problem to many surfers who use the Net a lot.

Beginners to the Net imagine that earning money on line is as simple as copying a couple of affiliate links on to a web page and spamming the world with the URL. This approach does not work, but it is a reason for so much of the junk email in your inbox every day.

There are professional spammers and even criminals on line for certain, but there are also hundreds of millions of hopeful teenagers sending out emails from cyber cafes all around the world.

The problems for these young affiliate marketing hopefuls is in essence twofold. The problem of not being able to write a convincing page of prose in English, more on which later and a lack of cash and especially an International credit card.

These aspects are problems, practically insurmountable concerns because being able to write is indispensable to the best form of marketing and being able to pay by credit card is indispensable to the other best ways of marketing.

The number one all time best method of making affiliate sales is to write a personal recommendation on a product based on personal experience with that product. So, if you cannot buy the product and you cannot compose, you have big difficulties indeed. It is a mistake that most affiliate marketers make, to think that they have to compose a sales page.

No, no and no, you do not. In most instances the firm you are selling for has spent hundreds if not thousands on persuasive sales pages written by copywriters. You would have to be very good to beat their efforts. Your job as an affiliate is to pre-sell by composing a page about your experience with the object and providing a forward link to the sales page.

If you cannot do that, you can try the next best ways: PPC (pay per click) – you pay for each click on your advertisement whether that leads to a sale or not. Adsense is the number one proponent here. PPI (pay per impression) – you pay each time your ad appears on the publisher’s network, whether it leads to a sale or not. In both cases, you need a credit card.

This is why there is so much spam, there are millions of people who cannot compose a letter well enough in English and/or who do not have a credit card to use the alternatives.

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