Affiliate Marketing: Can you really make any money at it – real money? The Truth.

Affiliate Marketing: Can you really make any money at it – real money? The Truth.Despite the negative reports you hear on the media that the Internet is full of scams and schemes to separate you from your hard earned cash, the TRUTH is – and I say this as someone who HAS been making money online for over 12 years – the truth is that it has never been EASIER TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE then right now!

Here’s why you CAN Make Money Online (don’t worry I will follow up with exactly how)

It used to be that if you were a regular Joe or Jane you posted a website and you sat and hoped that you would make sales. Your online marketing options were limited unless you had Wal-Mart’s bucks. If you had a website you didn’t have any web analytic tools (none worth their cost). Today, marketers have the power of web data analysis tools so you can monitor traffic, key word referral, referring sites, search engines traffic, most hit page and on and on. Years ago if you wanted to sell online you also had a brutal time trying to find a way to process any orders you had thanks to the stronghold big banks had over you and the ridiculous fees they charged you IF they even allowed you to have a merchant account.

Today’s online marketer has a tool bag of marketing gadgets that just didn’t exist five years ago. Today marketer’s with the determination of a pit bull can sink their teeth into effective marketing strategies like Twitter, Social Networking Sites, Blogs, Forums, Classified Ad Sites, Article Marketing, Safelists, Search Engine Optimization tactics and more – fast forward one year from now and this list will be even longer as new tools, sites and methods come online. The people – the users – are driving the web and it’s growth applications.

Years ago marketers relied on mail outs, flyers, card decks, package inserts at one huge expense with little return if your offer was dud. Post offices and printing companies made money – you the marketer made a little if you were luck. Now you can market online and use list technology to email your offers. When your offer falls flat you change it, send again. You build your list daily not yearly. Your cost to email 10 people the same as to email 10,000.

Today’s marketer or online business earner has the power of being able to accept online orders. Companies like PayPal and AlertPay make it easy for the small seller to sell online safely and securely. If you are selling a legitimate product or service you can do so thanks to online order processing giants like PayPal.

If you want to sell online these days you can sell your own stuff, you can sell other people’s stuff thanks to Affiliate Marketing. When it comes to Affiliate Marketing you have choices like never before. Do a search at Google for Affiliate Memberships and you will find 2,500,000 matches! Admittedly some are better than others, but it works like this. You agree to promote a product or service offered by a company and they pay you a commission for doing so! You don’t have to (in most cases) buy anything, no inventory stacked in your garage, you just sign up for the program, usually free, then start promoting. How much you get paid depends on the company but can be in range of 5% – 100% depending on the Affiliate program and the terms of the agreement.

Today’s home business owner can do business at a FRACTION OF THE COST that it used to – thanks to web-based phone services like Skype. Now you can deal with International customers and your monthly phone cost if you use Skype can be under $5.00 per month! Compare that to 2-3 years ago when people relied on Sprint, Bell and others to make those pricey long distance calls. Connecting with people means cash in your pocket, when you can call people CHEAP and talk to them, you make sales, plain and simple.

Who doesn’t know someone who buys and sells on Ebay. This company’s growth is unreal. You in your house, can sell online and make money easy using Ebay. Ebay offers conferences to help sellers, as they have a vested interested in you selling on their site. EBAY Stores are another option. Bottom line is, 10 years ago how did the little guy or gal sell to the WORLD? The truth is you didn’t. Now you can. Craigslist.com and kijiji.com are two more examples, cheap or free to advertise whatever you are selling, hard goods, services, digital products and more. Forget your local newspaper or posting a flyer up at the local grocery store, these sites get HUGE traffic, post whatever you are offering there. Too, there are tons and tons of other free classified advertising sites, post, post post then post some more.

Now that I have talked about all the advantages today’s marketer has at their finger tips let me lead into what you can sell at these sites to make money from home. I do mean a significant amounts of money too, not just pennies here and there.

It used to be that if you wanted to do Affiliate programs you had fewer choices of what to market and fewer places to market. Now that this problem is solved and you have unlimited products to sell and unlimited places to do so, let’s look at some specifics to put some money in your pocket.

How You Make Money Online From Affiliate Programs, what you need to know.

Right now people are learning online how to become Super Affiliates. These are the super heroes of the Internet, they sniff out the best Affiliate programs where the most money is to be made and they rely on this for a consistent source of income. Oh yes, it is possible, I am doing it, and thousands and thousands of others are earning consistent income from Affiliate programs. You are going to have to change your way of thinking. Throw out that negative attitude, open your mind to what IS possible. Those who do Affiliate Marketing know about the online courses, the ebooks, the training and the tools available to make money with Affiliate programs. News to you? Then you are in the right place, keep reading.

What do these courses teach you? You learn where to market and how to market efficiently. You learn what to sell and how to sell it. You learn the markets that are hot, the products that are in demand. You learn the offers that work, the list building techniques that work. Once you see the value and the money possible from Affiliate marketing you will then be at the point where you can learn how to create your own product and sell it through Affiliate channels – that’s right then YOU HAVE OTHER PEOPLE MARKETING YOUR PRODUCT! You become the OWNER of the product, you make it an affiliate program – others market it – you collect even larger revenues. I better stop there thought I don’t think you are reday for that yet.

Now, before I let you bite off more than you can chew, let’s start with the basics of making money with Affiliate programs. If what I have talked about here is all new to you then let’s bring it down to basics to get you started and get you some success and cash.

The Steps to Take To Be on The Road To Affiliate Earnings

Step 1. Take a good look at ClickBank.com If you have not heard about this company you will more in the future. This is a reputable company with over 10,000 digital products in their inventory. You can promote these products and earn whatever the vendor permits – usually 50% commission. Your cost to get started – zero.

Step 2: Promote the products everywhere you can lists, forums, classifieds, social networking sites, Twitter everywhere you can.

Step 3: Research other Affiliate programs at Google. Pick the ones you like, start marketing them at forums, classified ad sites, Twitter, safelists, traffic exchanges, and on.

Step 4: If you are new to online marketing or don’t know where to start, consider a coaching program. There are lots available that teach you how to market online but go with a company that actually earns their living doing this. I recommend starting with a program like the Bootcamp Training offered by Worldprofit.com They are a 15 year old company that teaches people how to make money from home and recently partnered with ClickBank. Using their marketing system you can promote ANY Affiliate program you like, not just ClickBank. You can get more details at http://www.worldprofit.com There is a cost for their Silver Membership but you can earn while you learn and by knowing what to do and where your efforts are best concentrated, will save you money in the long run.

Final words to read, consider, chew up, then motivate you to get started making money with Affiliate programs

YES, you can make money online with Affiliate Marketing. Some people do make more than others. Many people do make money, many don’t make money. The ones that do not make money aren’t doing it right or don’t follow the lessons on this article. When we first started testing Affiliate programs we started with about 10 ClickBank products, we posted to a list of under 200, and 5 posts to a paid safelist of 5,000, and we posted 22 free ads in forums etc. The result was earnings of $1,000 in 30 days. Our goal was to post like a newbie with a few selected products and see what happened. What happened is we made money 21 out of 30 days for a total earnings of $1,000 in the first month. Not bad for a one month test, costs under $50 for promotion with a limited number of products. Can you live with an extra $1,000 per month? Want more? Promote more, make more!

To those out there that say you can’t make money online – I say this:

-You haven’t made an effort -You aren’t looking at the right programs -You aren’t realistic about what it takes to make money online -You expect riches overnight – won’t happen – find the right programs – work hard – work DAILY at your business efforts -You are a negative person soaking up the negativity that proliferates from those who TALK about the Internet but don’t WORK the Internet.

Next time you listen to an expert make sure that person works the business they are an expert in, AND actually earns a living doing so.