Affiliate Marketing

Forming the Ideas for Internet Marketing

December 20, 2007

Apologies for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been rather busy with some other websites I assist with and if truth be told I’ve also been taking a little time out to refresh the soul. A friend asked recently how I get the ideas for internet marketing from and I found myself talking about the various sources of inspiration which might be of interest to those who do IM. The ideas for products to promote can come in many different ways but the most common ones are tv, magazines and chat with other webmasters and marketers. How many times...

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Affiliate Marketing and Article Writing Overview

October 7, 2007

One form of affiliate marketing is the method known as Article Marketing (or Bum Marketing as it is sometimes known). The concept is simple enough, write an article based around a keyword phrase in some niche then get your article published somewhere it is going to be seen, preferably on Google. Include your affiliate link to whatever related product you are promoting in the article so some of the readers will click through to the product and hopefully buy it, thus earning you a commission. Start by picking a niche market you know a little about, this is not...

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Affiliate Marketing – A Closer Look

September 23, 2007

So what exactly is affiliate marketing? Put simply it’s the business of marketing somebody else’ product or service in return for a commission or payment. There are tens of thousands of merchants looking for more sales and willing to pay from 5% to 70% of the sale value to whoever introduces the customer. This tends to work best with website sales as it is relatively simple to automate the administration involved in tracking which customer was introduces by which affiliate. Check out the Wealthy Affiliate Here Typically the lower commission shares are on high value physical products where there...

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Affiliate Marketing – The Wealthy Affiliate

August 22, 2007
Affiliate Marketing – The Wealthy Affiliate

I have said before that affiliate marketing is a great way to get a taste for online marketing in general. I have been doing affiliate marketing quite successfully since 2000 and have no intention of giving it up anytime soon. In fact I’m currently drafting a new website dedicated to the subject. Affiliate marketing is simply the activity of promoting other peoples products or services in return for a reward. The reward can be a fixed dollar amount per sale or may be a percentage of all initial sales plus any recurring or upsell transactions. There are numerous legitimate...

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