Is Affiliate Marketing for you?

Affiliate marketing offers many opportunities to earn an income working on the Internet. This is a viable way of developing your own online business. Whether you will be successful at it depends on many things but it mostly depends on you.  If you are considering doing affiliate marketing, you have already thought of all the ways that it could improve your life like; being your own boss, high income potential and low operation costs...among many other things. Like everything else in life, however, you reap what you sow.

Being your own boss sounds so wonderful but what kind of boss will you be. Will you be a slave driver who insists that work be done every waking hour including weekends and holidays or will you be so laid back that you won't start work until late afternoon and be so disorganized that nothing is accomplished? Either extreme will make you a very bad boss.

The high income potential sounds great, but the key word here is POTENTIAL. Potential only means that the high income is a possibility and not a certainty.  Your income will be directly proportionate to how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work. Becoming an affiliate marketer doesn't mean that bags of money will drop from the sky without any time and effort on your part.

The low operation cost of affiliate marketing is a very attractive point for becoming an affiliate marketer. It's true that it is low cost...but that doesn't mean there isn't any cost. You will still have all of the usual living expenses that must be met while you get your affiliate marketing business turning a profit. You will have advertising costs, as well. You must be sure that you can meet your financial obligations before you launch your business.

Keep in mind that affiliate marketing isn't an easy money tree that is going to just drop bundles of cash into your lap with no effort on your part required. You will find the affiliate opportunities that work the best only by finding them yourself, either through testing and research or networking and business development.
Free traffic is not completely over but it is fading fast. You can work hard to create pages that score high in the search engines and build sweat equity into a site but by paying for clicks and focusing on Google and Overture you will have the top three positions on all search engines that really count on the Internet.

You need to be on top if you want to generate traffic from Yahoo. Overture and especially Google are the best key drivers of qualified traffic on the Internet. Pay-per-click search engines let you quickly test different affiliate offers and new landing pages on your site. You can stay away from top competitive keywords for $1 to $2 per click. Niche marketing on Overture and Google works.

Instead of just sending traffic away and hoping for the best, you should have your own email list to which you can send multiple offers. Sending offers to your own email list is the true way to build freedom and residual income. You can do this by:

• Using subscription forms on your web site.
• Using co-registrations or co-op marketing campaigns.
• Buying email lists.

Effective affiliate marketing involves paying for traffic in one shape or another. To accelerate your income, you need to invest wisely in advertising and get the most mileage out of every one of them.

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Brenda W.   Life Learner Like your article. Affiliate Marketing is not for everyone. Thanx for the article. Aug 23rd 2011 06:36

Wendy McKee   affiliate marketer Very good article Michael. Your information is useful and truthful. It's not easy and you do have to put in the hours to succeed. Aug 23rd 2011 08:14

Dontai M.   You Make Money So Do I! This is one of the best articles I seen so far. You really took a idea and ran with it. Aug 23rd 2011 10:49

Abad Perez   Bishop, Affiliate Marketer You are right in saying that there is Potential. However, anyone who enters this industry expecting not to work is in for a big surprise. Aug 23rd 2011 11:24

Samsu Arifin    nice articels so far for me, mean some new info for myself , n i've blog n now has reach over 1000 visitors and of course any of them has become my downline...Thanks n success 4 U.. Aug 23rd 2011 11:32

Tony H.   Myandurbiz Very good article Mr.Lea, I look forward to reading more interesting material that you may present in the near future for the educational benefit of all the APsense members. Aug 23rd 2011 14:33

Please Delete   delete please Well said, affiliate marketing can be very rewarding depending on how you work your business. Aug 23rd 2011 18:43

Janet Legere   Internet Marketing Training Expert Affiliate marketing is very rewarding providing you learn the art of Affiliate Marketing ;-) Great article! Aug 23rd 2011 18:54

Sergio Felix   IT Pro I liked the whole article except for the recommendation about "buying email lists". Maybe I'm not thinking outside the box and I'm missing something here but who knows, great share though! Aug 23rd 2011 19:33

Michael Lea    Thank yo for your kind comments. Look out for more coming soon. Aug 23rd 2011 23:39

Bipin Shah   Self Employed Affiliate Marketing in the Booming industry Aug 24th 2011 00:29

Robin Benton    very nice article Michael Lea Aug 24th 2011 01:12

Chukwuekwu Okonta   Forensic accountant Great article, affiliate marketing is vast and requires learning and hard work. Aug 24th 2011 01:41

Arthur Webster   Just plain honesty This a straight copy of a GoArticles entry by Alicia Lyttle & Lorette Lyttle. Michael, you should spend time making your articles unique by changing them significantly - this way you would be able to use your own affiliate link and not the site owner's. Aug 24th 2011 01:42

Shashi Kant Patel  Self Employed good article Michael Lea Aug 24th 2011 02:00

The Logical Psychic   Thanks for the info. Aug 24th 2011 08:01

Manali Patel  SEO firm Hello Michael, nice article and I think affiliate marketing is not for everybody but it is for those who have the website. Aug 25th 2011 07:21

Genome    @Michael Lea. I like it, I totally agree with you about if we want to increase our income we have to advertise. Advertising not only helps to grow your business but helps you to build some good contacts also... :) Aug 27th 2011 22:02