Cashing In On Other People's Product - Part 1

A lot of people are now getting into online businesses and online marketing either to supplement their “real world” income or for it to become their primary source of income. Why? Because online marketing just provides them a lot of benefits!

First, you can reach just about anybody in the world who has Internet access if you market your products online. That means a wider market for you, which can translate to larger profits. Second, setting up an online business requires only a fraction of the cost required to set up an actual business establishment, which means a lot of savings for the business owner.

Another aspect that has attracted a lot of people towards online marketing is the fact that one doesn’t have to have his own products to get started. In online marketing, one can start making a lot of money just by selling, or even by just trying to sell, other people’s products. And getting started with this kind of marketing strategy is actually quite easy. All that one needs to do is to set up an agreement with an online retailer or merchant, and after everything is settled, one can immediately start making money by selling the merchant’s or the retailer’s products.

Incidentally, the most popular and the fastest growing method of selling other people’s products online is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing, in its simplest definition, is a relationship between an online merchant or retailer, who has products to sell, and his affiliates, who are willing to promote the merchant’s product on their website.

In a typical affiliate marketing set up, the merchant provides his affiliates with banners and text ads that links to his site. The affiliates will then get these ads posted on their website and they get paid whenever traffic or sales is directed to the merchant’s website. Affiliates are often paid on commission basis, although other online merchants would opt to pay a fixed fee for the affiliate’s compensation.

Starting to make money online with affiliate marketing is relatively quick and easy. All that one has to do is to sign up as an affiliate for an online company that offers affiliate programs. An alternative method, and usually an easier one, is to sign up as a member of an affiliate network—a network that hosts a variety of affiliate programs for different online merchants or retailers. Signing up is usually free, although other companies and networks may require you to pay a particular fee. Such fees, however, are made as payment for additional services that the company may render, like providing you with tools and assistance to jumpstart your online business.

When you sign up with an affiliate marketing program, you are usually required to fill out a form containing information about yourself. Some affiliate programs may also require you to present the URL of your website and describe its contents. This will allow the retailers to verify that you actually have a website with contents that are relevant to their products. Some affiliate programs, however, won’t require you to have a website. After filling out the form and all, you are then allowed to choose the affiliate programs you want to promote.

After signing up with an affiliate program and being an actual affiliate, you are now ready to start making a lot of money by selling other people’s product online. How do you make money? There are actually a number of ways for you to earn money as an affiliate, and most of these ways depends on the type of affiliate marketing program you’ve gotten into.

That's about it for today. I'll continue with the second part of this post. So, if you are still interested in reading the other half, please visit this blog again in a few day from now:)

Atomic Blogging 3.0 - Introduced!

Every now and then I will set time aside to talk about a topic that I think is worth sharing to all of you. Today, is such a day for that. You guys ever heard of Atomic Blogging before? Probably, yes or no? Maybe you guys heard of Atomic Blogging 2.0 but not 3.0? Well, it doesn't matter. I'll just spill it out anyway.

Atomic Blogging is a blogging system created by a Singaporean fellow by the name of Alvin Phang. For your information, this system is highly rated by numerous top internet marketing guru's such as Ewen Chia, Daegan Smith, John Tan, John Chow and a few others. Basically this system takes your blogging experience into a new level. What kind of level you might ask me? Well, it has the ability to lure a crazy huge numbers of visitors at no time at all! The more visitors to your site means? You know what I mean right? If you're an affiliate marketer promoting quality products, the this is your big breakthrough of getting a conversion from your visitors. I know what you guys are thinking. I'm just talking nonsense. Don't believe me check Atomic Blogging 3.0 yourself. And you'll be the judge.

How to make money from home the Quick Fire way

Reports show that on the internet over 800000 people make either part time or full time incomes from using online sources. These methods vary dramatically from online businesses selling physical products, affiliate marketing (where you get paid a commission on sales, from visitors you send to the merchants website) and various other online money making opportunities. The internet has opened the door for just about everybody that can get online to take advantage of these opportunities.

Below is just one of a thousand ways to reap profits from the millions of internet visitors
The reality is that if you believe it or not, the fact is that thousands of people are making money online. Affiliate programs are one of the easiest ways to gain an online income. Plus it is really simple to set up for anyone as long as you are shown.

How it works

Well, the merchant of a product, whether it be a physical or digital product has an affiliate program for people like you and me to promote their product/s. The merchant offers the affiliate a generous commission for sales made from sending visitors (traffic) to their site. That is the simplest and most cost effective way to make money online, as it often only costs a minimal free or is even FREE to do (with a little time).

There are several ways to do send the traffic to the merchants site. The 2 main ways to do this are PPC and SEO.

What is PPC?

Well PPC or Pay-Per-Click is paid advertising on the search engines. This works by simple paying for an advertisement promoting the merchants product. This advert can often be in the form of your own website which then review the product in question or you can simple send the traffic directly to the merchants site.

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short is a way sending the traffic to the merchants site by various means. Most of these means are often free, but can be very time consuming. Some are more productive than others but there are various online tools out there to save time and make the whole process easier.

One of the main ways to do this is to submit articles, which send traffic to the site specified in the anchor text (your link) at the bottom of the article. This will also give the site you are promoting another link to help the search engines rank the website for the keyword (phrase used in the search bar of the search engine).

Basically, if a link on an affiliate site brings the merchant site sales traffic the merchant site pays the affiliate site their commission. Recruiting affiliates is an excellent way to sell products online which is well worth the sales commission that is paid. After all, the affiliate is doing the leg work in promoting the merchants site, so they should be rewarded with a generous percentage of the sales.

How easy is this?

Hundreds of thousands of people are implementing these online methods. Many fail because the effort and time that they are putting into this through half explained instruction simple doesn't bring them a profit.

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While many promote the ease of these online business - they fail to mention the effort and time it takes to make a website successful. It's an easy business because you can set it up and it works 24 hours a day and you can basically set it up and forget it. But the reality is, that while it maybe easy - the success of your website cost a lot of effort and time. If your not familiar with SEO, PCP, social sites - your websites probably are not generating any real traffic.