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Regardless what you have heard about Affiliate Marketing, it's virtually impossible for everyone to make the sums of money that all the Gurus' tell you can be made. Amounts such as $10,000 or more a month, are simply a fantasy at least until you have built your business on a large scale. There is also no scenario where money just falls into your hands without you doing anything to earn it.
With that in mind, I have listed my 3 Top Tips below that will help you make money with affiliate marketing programs on the internet.
1. Google and Overture
The days of free website traffic may not be completely over, but they are surely fading away quickly. You can choose to work hard creating web pages that will hopefully score well in the search engines, but this could be a lot of work for not a lot of end result.
Paying for clicks with Google and Overture can allow you to have the top three positions on the search engines that matter the most. The best way to generate traffic from Yahoo, Bing and the like is to be on the top of the first page of Google.
2. Your own email list
Compiling a list of email subscribers and sending offers to your this list is the ideal way to build freedom and residual income. This would allow you to, instead of sending traffic away then hoping for the best, send your subscribers relevant offers that would benefit them and, hopefully, benefit you with quite a few affiliate commissions.
3. Your own affiliate program
One of the most overlooked ways of getting traffic to your website is having others generate it for you. There are many advantages to this method, most notably the fact that if other people are generating your traffic for you, it would then free up your time to do other tasks.
If you knew that each filled out form on your site generated .50 cent in revenue, would you still be willing to pay someone else .25 cents to generate that same traffic?
At the end of the day and whether we like it or not, we all end up paying for traffic. What we need to ensure is that we get wise to all the different methods and don't allow ourselves to pay over to odds for traffic unless the conversions are really worth it. To make more income, you'll need to invest very wisely in advertising, so take your time and research all your options thoroughly before spending your hard earned cash.
