subject: Affiliate Marketing Revealed! [print this page] You might have not heard the term affiliate marketing before in your life, but don't worry, it is very easy to understand the concept of it. What it is, is just people signing up so that they can sell your products for you and you give them a percentage of each sale. Affiliate marketing has very many advantages, but we will only mention two of them in this short article.
Increased revenue.
Even though you are actually giving away a portion of your earnings, you are actually making more money if you use affiliate marketing in your promotional efforts. The reason why you are making more money is that affiliate marketers are like an army of salesmen that will work with you and for you constantly and will keep selling your products even when you sleep or go on vacation.
Just think about it!
Let's say you have an e-book and you are selling 20 copies of that e-book a day. Say, that e-book costs $27. You make $540 in a day.
That's not too bad, but just look what happens when you have affiliate marketers working for you.
Let's say you have five affiliate marketers and they each sell 10 copies of your book a day. If you give each one of them 50% commission for each sale, then here's the math:
5 x 10 sales = 50 sales = $1350 / 2 = $675 of profit for you.
You see the math?
What is even cooler is you can keep promoting your e-book on your own and everything that you sell personally is additional profit for you. It's real magic if you ask me!
Another great benefit of affiliate marketing is increased visibility. You will have a lot of people promoting your ebook and as a result of that many people will see your e-book, will remember your name and you will be aware of your website.
Increased visibility alone is worth setting up an affiliate program. If many people are aware of you and what you do, and you are in the habit of providing valuable information and products to them, then you will be able to position yourself as an expert in the markets which you are working with.
Affiliate marketers are like an army of people ready to serve you with all they have. They will promote your products to their lists and friends.
Believe me, you all alone cannot do as much work as 10 people or even three people can. It simply pays off if you have a legion of people working for you even if you're giving them a huge percentage of each sale.
