5 Tips for Choosing a Money-Making Affiliate Program

Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money online. Whether you have your own high traffic site or blog, or you create landing pages and go with PPC and article marketing, the rewards can be substancial.

The best thing about affiliate marketing is --

You never need to create your own products.

You simply promote someone else's already proven successful product using their already proven successful offer to earn a commission or percentage of the sale.

They've already done the "dirty" work for you.  They've created the product.  They've setup the website and payment method.  Many of them have produced banners, links, ads and content for promotion.

Now all you have to do is find buyers.

But you can help yourself along if you remember these 6 important tips when choosing the affiliate programs you promote.

1. If you already have a website, choose affiliate programs and products that match the content of your site. Nothing looks quite as desparate as a misplaced ad.

2. Choose affiliate programs that pay a high commission. Too many beginners seem to pick programs that pay low percentages and the affiliates find it extremely difficult to make any real money after their expenses.  Go for at least 30%-50% on your direct sales.

3. If you can join affiliate programs that pay two-tier commissions. Two Tier Programs pay you not only on the products you sale but also a smaller percentage on the sales of people who you introduce to your affiliate program. 

4. Join affiliate programs that offer a long referral time frame (often called a "cookie" as in "30-day cookie.")  Avoid programs that only pay on the original visit.  You want ones that pay if your referral comes back and purchases other services or products at a later time.  Go for at least 60 days.

5. Join affiliate programs that offer their affiliates great marketing support. Many affiliate programs offer their affiliates pre-written ads to use or get ideas from, sales letters, marketing courses, and articles to use in promoting their services.

6. Look for affiliate programs with recurring commissions such as membership sites.  Find a customer once and keep earning as long as he or she is a member.  You are wasting your time chasing customers and getting only one commission. The big affiliates put their efforts into recruiting customers who will give them lifetime commissions.

Once you find some good affiliate programs to promote you have only one job --

Promote Your Affiliate Link

Learn to promote your link successfully and you WILL make money. Their profession sales letter will do the selling.

Now -- How Would You Like Someone to Help You in Promoting Your Affiliate Link?

Jimmy D. Brown's Affiliatenaire, promises to make promoting your affiliate link almost as easy as having someone else write your sales letter for you.

Affiliatenaire is a unique, one-of-a-kind affiliate training program. Its only purpose is to help you find buyers. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. You won't learn to write copy or put up websites since the merchant has done those for you.

It is designed to be a step-by-step action plan that is written in a easy to follow language and delivered to your inbox every week in a 5-7 page .pdf lesson that should take you just 1-3 hours per week to finish!

You follow the steps -- You send people to the profession sales letter -- You earn referral commissions.

And you never need to try and write again.

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Mark Hester http://amarketingprograms.com/