The Affiliate Network

 Affiliate Marketing 101 –

The Basics Since you are reading this e-book,

I will assume that you are interested in making your fortune.

Before you can even contemplate picking an affiliate program to join, you will need to make some basic changes in your thinking. Change the way you think about money.

You’ve got to really change the way you view money and you want to begin to feel like you deserve to be wealthy. While this concept seems simple, many people don’t feel like they deserve money.

As a result, their activities reflect their feelings of lack of worthiness. Instead of coming home from work and hitting the computer, reading an ebook, taking action on a plan, they will instead come home, sit in front of the television and time will pass.

Instead of becoming a veteran internet marketer, they will become the master of television watching. People who feel like they should be able to make lots of money online will naturally make a lot of money online.

This is not some spiritual mish-mosh, although I feel that spirituality is a part of everyone’s journey. However, that is not what I’m talking about when I say people can make lots of money.

10 The most important thing to remember is that if you feel like you deserve lots of money, you will take the actions to make it happen.

It takes some basic things to be successful at affiliate marketing: Stay focused Pick a niche product to start with and then START Read this e-book and then take action. Make a schedule and then stick to it. Start small and apply what you learn as you go.

Avoid being overwhelmed out of the gate. You want to learn, apply it on a small level and then scale up when you feel you have the basics under control. While you are doing this, you will start to make money. By staying focused, I mean avoid the multi-tab distractions. You can open a ton of websites in browser’s nowadays.

If your plan calls for answering email between a certain time and certain time, avoid reading emails before that time. Tell yourself, it will still be sitting there waiting for you at.

11 The ClickBank Marketplace 101 Clickbank has been in business since 1998, and has built their network to one of the largest retailer of digital products. With over 10,000 digital products, it is one of the premier affiliate networks. It is easy to use, easy to join and there are products in a ton of different areas from pets to electronics. I

n order to earn commissions, all you need to do is take your affiliate ID and you get a link which you can use to send customers to. When they click on your link, it will record your commissions when they buy the product.

These affiliate networks generally require that you have a website that is related to the affiliate program you want to sell. However, that’s not impossible to accomplish, and you can get one at

www.blogger.com, www.typepad.com,

www.wordpress.com and the like.

You can also sign up with very reasonable hosting services that provide one click installation of your blog site where you can start posting articles and blog posts related to the product or service you apply for at one of the larger networks like the ones listed below:

12 Clickbank is a Fast Start,

Needs no website and pretty easy to be accepted into this program. www.clickbank.com Need to have a website,

makes sure that it’s established with an About Us, Contact Us and Privacy page on the site. Should have a few weeks of posts at the very least.

www.shareasale.com www.cj.com

www.linkshare.com

www.amazon.com

www.ebaypartnernetwork.com

www.pepperjamnetwork.com

www.datafeedr.com

www.goldenCAN.com

www.rubiconproject.com

Wait at least 90 days before putting Adsense on your site.

To ensure that you will be accepted to the Adsense program, it’s best not to apply until you have an established site to show them

. www.adsense.com

These two are secondary and shouldn’t be considered until you’ve got your sites up and running for a few months.

13 www.azoogleads.com –

CPA network www.cpaempire.com Before you apply to any of the other sites, you need to have a real site.

You will want to blog on the site for at least two weeks, one blog post per day. If you aren’t a writer, you will need to hire a freelancer.

Go to Elance.com, rentacoder.com and the like to find a writer. You can hire a freelancer fairly inexpensively who will deliver you blog posts to add to your site.

14 Researching Your Products Pick a niche product and start to research if it’s a viable topic or subject. Whether you want to go with Clickbank products or with other affiliate products, you will need to do your research.

Finding a profitable niche should be the very first thing you do when starting in affiliate marketing. You want to have a product that is Hot! If you find a product that isn’t very hot, don’t expect to make any kind of money with it.

The reason I picked the Maverick Money Makers is because it is a hot item. People are interested in the niche, and it’s marketed well, presented in a professional manner, and has tools for its affiliates to use to make money.

To find out what are people looking to buy: Amazon Best Sellers – Amazon.com Pulse.ebay.com Terapeak.com Amazon.com Bestsellers Amazon gives you a quick and easy way to find out what’s hot and what’s not on their site. It is a clear

15 indicator of what the buying market is looking for, making it very easy for your to put yourself in the path of oncoming web traffic and make sales.

If you sign up with Amazon’s affiliate program, you can sell all of the products on the site, and with the Bestsellers section, you will know for sure that certain products are selling.

They even give you a Top10 list for each category so that you can use that to make articles, reviews and blog posts. Ebay Pulse tool:

http://pulse.eBay.com

This is a great place to find out what the hot products are because if a person is typing it into eBay, they are typing it into Google and Amazon.

Ebay Pulse gives you a real-time look at what people are looking to buy. You can log into eBay and do a search on the completed items.

It will tell you what people are selling, how many have sold and the average price

. Look for items with bids, and this is a great way to get an idea of what people are looking for. Terapeak is another great way to do things www.terapeak.com Go to Hot Research, sort of like eBay pulse. It will give you a listing of what’s hot on eBay.

You can then 16 drill down and it will give you an idea of some of the different auctions that are going on. If there are bids, this is a good item to become an affiliate for.

Hot Research > Hot Searches and then

Search Good average price above $30.00, with a good commission rate of no less than 40%, the higher the better. Also, don’t go for the very high end products that are priced at above $125 dollars.