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For anyone who is interested in making money online affiliate marketing can be a great way to get started with a small amount of investment. There are thousands of products out there that have affiliate programs and in some cases you can earn up to 75% commission on every sale you generate through your affiliate link.So it seems pretty simple doesn't it, find the affiliate program that pays the most money, apply to become an affiliate, generate some traffic to the site through your affiliate link and that's pretty much all you need to do right? Well actually no, the truth is tht while targeting programs that have high payout values is not necessarily a bad thing, there is more to consider when selecting a program to promote than just how much they will pay for a referral.One of the first things you need to consider is how well the product itself sells and what is its refund rate like, after all there's nothing worse than spending time and money on promoting a product and generating traffic to a website that doesn't then do its job and convert these visitors in to buyers. So make sure you spend some time looking into a products conversion rate in relation to how much it pays you for each sale.Next you need to find a product owner that looks after their affiliates by providing them with as much support as possible in the selling of their product. You want the product owner to provide you with banners, emails and additional tools that you can use as the basis for your own marketing campaign. If a product owner doesn't provide these tools to affiliates then it's likely they are generating more of their own sales than anything else and in reality they may not be that interested in sharing that with affiliates.In addition it a good idea to select an affiliate program that is managed by one of the top affiliate platforms such as Clickbank or PayDotCom where all the payments are handled through a single source. Sometimes if a product owner offers multiple methods for payment it can mean that you will be shortchanged due to a lack of tracking on particular payment methods, whereas a product that only accepts payments through one of the large platforms like those above is more likely to have very accurate tracking in place regardless of how they are paid.Another good thing to look for is an affiliate program whose goal is to sell the product first rather than capturing email addresses. When the primary function of a sales page is to capture visitors email addresses rather than make the sale it becomes that much harder as an affiliate to be successful, after all as soon as a visitor goes onto the product owner's email list that person becomes their lead and not yours.By choosing a program that looks to make the sale you are able to capture the details of your visitors first, adding them to your own list and allowing you to market to them in the future. And as many people will tell you when you get started with affiliate marketing there is such value in the list that even if that's the only thing you are achieving in the short term it will put you in a great position to capitalise on these leads in the future.So it's absolutely true that affiliate marketing can be a fantastic way to make money online without having to spend a fortune, but don't let its supposed simplicity fool you into thinking that it will be ridiculously easy to achieve. Avoid the simple mistakes and you will maximise your chances of success and you'll soon find yourself seeing the income start to roll in from your affiliate marketing business.
