subject: Halloween Super Affiliate - Earn Thousands From Affiliate Programs [print this page] Today, high starting cost shouldn't be your excuse for not starting a business. In fact, there are several business models that you can try which require little or no capital to start. For example, you can sell physical goods at eBay. You can forget about paying high shop rent since the customers come from eBay website itself.
However, you are not necessarily need to create your own product to make a living online. There are tonnes of money-making models that you can choose from which don't require lots of capital to start. One of them is affiliate marketing.
There are two ways to get paid from affiliate programs. Generally, you will be compensated for each sale that you made. This is the most popular type of affiliate programs that can be seen in Amazon Associates, Regnow or Clickbank networks.
In order to reach and convert one visitors into real customers, you need to master several marketing skills. Those are copywriting, traffic generation and email marketing. Remember, your job isn't just to get traffic. You must be able to convert the traffic into sales. Otherwise, you won't be paid for commission.
If you don't want to master those marketing skills, you can try CPA marketing. This is another form of affiliate marketing that will pay you just by sending leads to the merchants. For example, when people sign up to receive one product, or perhaps downloading one program.
For CPA marketing, you don't need to sell anything, so the sales funnel is short and less marketing skills required. Most people think that is would be easier to earn money this way. However, keep in mind that CPA networks won't approve an affiliate easily. Normally, they will review an application manually.
No matter what type of marketing that you are into, you will need targeted traffic. If the traffic is not targeted, you will make less or zero sales. The same goes for CPA marketing. If the traffic isn't targeted, your visitors will less likely going to sign up for trial offer.
There are several ways to drive targeted traffic. If you don't want to focus much on link building or content creation, pay-per-click like Adwords or MSN Adcenter is the best option. You will receive the same quality traffic as you do with SEO.
If you are into Amazon Associates or Clickbank, product name keywords will tend to convert into money. On the other hand, if you are sending traffic to CPA offers, you can try other keywords, but it must contain at least three words. Forget targeting one word keyword like money, laptop or software.
