If you are considering starting an online business, this article is for you. Starting an online business is not an easy task. It does involve a lot of steps. Some of the steps involved are:
- Market research
- Niche research
- Product creation
- Sales letter creation
- Pricing structure
- Email follow-up series
- Autoresponder system setup
- Domain registration
- Web hosting account setup
- Website creation
- Free report creation
- Squeeze page creation
- Traffic generation
- Sales conversion
If you say that there is a lot of work involved in starting an online business, well you are right!
But fortunately, there is a better and faster way to start your online business without going through most all of the abovementioned steps. The fastest and easiest way to start your online business today is through Affiliate Marketing.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is a business model that allows you to take other people's products and sell them to earn commissions. The main advantage of this business model is that you don't need to create your own products or spending a lot of time in doing market research. All the hard works have been done for you. All you need to do is just pick a profitable product and start promoting it to earn commissions.
How do you pick a profitable product without doing any research?
Well, there are many places you can go and pick up profitable affiliate products. Some of the top ones are: Clickbank, PayDotCom and CommissionJunction. You can also go to Amazon and eBay. But eBay is a bit difficult to get approved as an affiliate nowadays; you should try the first three affiliate networks that I mentioned above first. They are quite easy to get approved.
In fact, just about every business and every product online nowadays has an affiliate program that goes along with it. You can usually find the link to become an affiliate at the bottom of the business or product's website. Click on that link, sign-up to be an affiliate, and then get your affiliate link that you can use. Now you're all set to begin promoting the affiliate products and earn commissions.
But how do you go about promoting affiliate products online?
Here are some easy ways or tips you can follow to start promoting affiliate products and make money:
Start a blog
It's very easy to start a blog. If you are a beginner, I suggest you to start with blogspot.com and wordpress.com. Visit these two sites and create your account there (it's free to create an account there). Then start blogging; start sharing useful information in your blog and don't forget to insert your affiliate link in your article. When people click on your affiliate links and purchase products, you will get paid.
Write and submit articles to article directories
For this method to work well, I recommend you to register a domain name that is related to the products that you are promoting. Then write 20 articles and submit them to these article directories: EzineArticles, ArticleBase, GoArticles, ArticleSnatch, ArticleDashBoard, IdeaMarketers and ArticleAlley. These article directories have a huge amount of traffic. If you submit articles to these sites on a regular basis, you will make money. Remember to put your domain (forward it to your affiliate link) in your article resource box so that readers who are interested in the products can click on the link and check them out.
I have shared with you how to start your online business and start earning money today! If you follow my advice, you will make money online period.
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