Friday, July 31, 2009

Making Money 101: Earning Money As An Affiliate Marketer

By Taylor Jordan

Thousands of people around the world are looking into finding ways to make money online so they can leave their day job. If you're one of them, make sure you don't make the most common mistake by just jumping for the first "business opportunity" that you see -- learn as much as you can. If you do, you'll see that one of the most easy ways of building an income online is through affiliate marketing -- selling someone else's product.

Selling a product doesn't require a ridiculous amount of training -- doing sales on the Internet requires even less training because it's almost completely in text. This doesn't mean you don't need to learn the basics of marketing, but the learning curve is much lower than most other methods of earning money.

One of the most popular ways of selling someone else's products is to check out a popular website (like ebay or amazon), find great deals and then takes those deals to sell at "real world" places, such as pawn shops or yard sales. You can even set up a virtual store with an affiliate program with another leading website or online shopping mall.

Of course, to make money online marketing another person's stuff is probably not going to build you a 6-figure income. If your goal is to make real money online, you'll need to find a method that actually earns more of an income than simply hawking eBay and Amazon products.

If you are capable of producing articles that will highlight you as an expert in the niche of the products you are trying to sell, you could do a lot of article marketing. This takes time but no actual monetary investment.

You can also take advantage of programs such as Google's Adwords and Adsense. Literally any method of online advertising can be used, but you will be directing traffic to someone else's website. Often, this is done by creating landing pages or blogs that will point targeted traffic in the direction of the actual seller for the product.

Don't fall for the claim that you can learn how to make money online while sitting back and doing nothing to actually earn those dollars. You will have to work hard, especially when you are just feeling your way into the online marketing world.

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