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The quickest path to start an easy online business is affiliate marketing, hands down.
Objective
Affiliate marketing is NOT selling a product; it's pre-selling a product. Then the affiliate drives internet traffic to a vendor sell page through a web site or web-site like tool.
There is no inventory. You make commissions from the products you drive traffic to.
The Process
There are three pieces of the affiliate marketing process for each product you pick Build, Create Traffic, and Maintain/Tweak as follows:
BUILD
Find a product (clickbank, linkshare, commission junction) you are familiar with and can write about intelligently.
Pick several low competition keyword phrases related to the product.
Construct a web site or squidoo lenses (squidoo.com) around the keywords.
CREATE TRAFFIC
Write articles or create videos to drive traffic to the landing pages (some directories will not let use a direct link to a vendor) or to the vendor sell site.
Participate in forums and social networks (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) to build traffic. Use your signature to link to your web site. If you blatantly promote an affiliate product, you will turn off or be thrown out of forums.
MAINTAIN/TWEAK
Check statistics to determine which articles are generating the most traffic and figure out why. If you need more traffic and ultimately clicks to the web site/ lenses or vendor sell page, write more targeted articles/videos.
This article presents an overview of the affiliate marketing process. You may need the "how-to" details. You can get them yourself online or use another method such as an Internet Marketing club or an affiliate marketing guru's blueprint.
The How-To Details
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