How To Make Money With Affiliate Programs Without Selling Anything
When most people think about making money as an affiliate marketer they think about selling products for a merchant
. Larger merchants such as Amazon.com and Overstock.com are perfect examples of this.
However, there are people who make a tremendous amount of money on the Internet in affiliate marketing that never sell a product. In this article we will go over how to make money with affiliate products without selling anything yourself.
1. Join pay per click affiliate programs such as Google Adsense. You have probably seen Google ads on people's websites.
Did you know that every time a website visitor clicks on one of these ads the website owner is making money? This could be anywhere from a few pennies per click, to several dollars per click.
Google pays out hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions just on this type of affiliate marketing. This is an easy way to make money as an affiliate because you are not requiring your website visitor to purchase anything.
Affiliate marketers who make the most money doing these types of programs generally develop large content sites with hundreds or thousands of pages with ads on them. Then they work at driving traffic to these sites and treat Internet marketing as a numbers game.
2. It is amazing to think that there are affiliate marketers earning seven figure incomes in cost per action programs. These used to be referred to as pay per lead programs because the specific action you required your visitor to do was fill out a short lead form.
Today cost per action programs could also include things such as requiring your visitor to download software or something like that. However the most common program is getting your visitor to fill out a short form.
This could be as simple as asking them to fill in their email address. Every time an action is completed you earn a commission. These are higher than a ppc commission would be, but still easier to make money on than asking your visitor to actually make a purchase.
3. Joining two-tier affiliate programs is another way to make money without selling anything yourself. You make money on the sales of the people you recruit. If you like working with people, and training them, this is a good way to get paid on the efforts of others as an affiliate marketer.
These are three examples of how to make money with affiliate programs. All three of these methods do not require you to sell anything, and you can earn a supplemental income or full-time living doing them over time.