subject: Affiliate Marketing Course - No Product, No Website, No Experience Required! [print this page] For those looking to generate extra income, the Internet is, naturally, a good place to start. Not only can you search for traditional employment here, you can also learn to set up your own part or full time Internet business. There are ways to do this without having any products of your own to sell, and even no website of your own. Overheads are remarkably low, plus no customer contact is required. This method is called Affiliate Marketing, and a reputable, easy to follow Affiliate Marketing Course can teach you the basics in just a few days.
As an affiliate, you promote products owned by someone else. These can be physical products (such as those on Ebay or Amazon) or downloadable products. You earn money through customers buying the vendor's products via your promotional activities. Commission rates on physical products can be low (sometimes 2-3%) but the selling price can be quite high (TV's for example). You can earn commission between 50-75% per sale on downloadable products, but conversely, these are generally fairly cheap to buy, meaning more sales are required.
If you follow an Affiliate Marketing Course, chances are you will initially be taught to promote downloadable products. There is a very basic way to do this - but, if you choose the right product, this method can be just as lucrative as the most advanced techniques around. I know many affiliates who never move beyond this stage, yet are quite satisfied with the amount of regular income they earn through this. And the beauty of it is they don't even need to create their own website to promote the goods.
The basic method entails visiting a site called 'ClickBank'. Here you'll find a 'Marketplace' of thousands of downloadable products, created by various vendors. Products range from everything, such as advice on dietary issues, through to information to improve your photography - with almost any subject you can imagine in between. Before you can promote, you must register with ClickBank - it's free, and the form is simple.
The affiliate will then identify a product they want to promote, within a niche market that contains plenty of hungry customers. Research here can take some time, but is worth doing well. Choosing carefully, and correctly, can help achieve regular income for the foreseeable future. The affiliate then obtains a code for this product, which will identify them each time a purchase is made.
The affiliate needs to invest in a domain name (around $10), related to their product. This domain must be 'forwarded' to the domain name of their affiliate link.
Finally, the affiliate writes short, informative articles about their chosen subject. Each article contains a 'resource box' in which the affiliate can mention their product, and provide links to their domain name, and on to the site where the reader can purchase. Each purchase made this way will earn the affiliate commission.
An Affiliate Marketing Course can lead you through every part of this process, so that you learn the detailed steps required to implement it successfully. The secret of generating significant income is to complete one project - then simply repeat again and again, until you have a series of similar projects earning you residual income. It's really worth giving it a try.
