How does one start to be an affiliate marketer and does one need a website?

[elana242]

I do not have a website but I need to make money. Promoting other's products seems like a good idea, however I have no idea how to get started. I have bought several scams and they did not work or I simply did not understand them.

[G N A]

I've listed a resource for you to learn about affiliate marketing and it's one of the best on the internet.

Remember, when you become an affiliate you are actually a commissioned sales person, so you earn more when the people you refer to the merchant sells more. You do not sell the product or service - you find people interested in them and refer them to the merchant. The merchant's job is to sell their own product or service.

Click the link below and see if this will help you.

[spydie]

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[npji]

Tupperware is a home based business. They offer a pre-built site for you, but if you want to build your own that is cool too. If you build your own it just can't have Tupperware in the name and instead of having to set it up that they check out at your site (more $ for maintaining) you just link it to the pre-built site for them to check-out. They best part about Tupperware is that it is such a well known brand that people call other plasticware buy its name. Also, there is plenty of room for growth and flexibility to run your business how you would like. Let me know if you have any questions. :)

[JIMMY]

O'boy where do you start? You could write a complete series of books on this question.

The best advise if your new to trying to make money from the Internet is start slow, start very slooooow.

There are 10 times more scams out there just waiting for their next victim to get them to bite then there are legitimate opportunities.
Sure, they all sound really good at first and they ALL play off your emotions on how "EASY" it is to make money, that is until they have your money and your wondering "What Happened?"

Even the BEST Online Opportunity "ALWAYS" needs one thing, and without it, no matter how good it is, you will make very little if anything for all your time and effort.

You need Quality Targeted Traffic To Whatever it is you are selling/promoting and you NEED to get on the good side of the Major Search Engines.(unless of course you have an unlimited financial resources for a PPC campaign to get it up and running)
If you are Brand Spankin New and never made any "Real" money off the Internet one suggestion would be to start your own Blog FIRST.
Why?
For one you can have it up and running in less then an hour and it won't cost you a dime.
Everybody has something they are passionate about. Give it some serious thought before you start and make sure it's a subject you are knowledgeable/passionate about.

How can you turn it into Traffic/$$$?

Take Blogger.com for instance. It is owned by Google and it's extremely easy to add Google Adwords into your Blog. By default they will display relevant "paying"ads on your Blogs subject where you get a percentage of any clicks. They also just happen to run the Biggest Search Engine and IMO they also favor the content on Blogger so they will send their spiders to your site faster and more often to get your pages indexed in their Search Engine which will automatically start bringing you you the Targeted Traffic you NEED to Succeed.

You will also want to get your site indexed with Yahoo/msn asap but it might take a little longer for them to index it, but it's worth the wait once they do.
Once you get your Blog up and running (and keep adding new content/posts) you can then start doing specific posts around a certain product/opportunity and integrate it into your writing using other promotions that pay much higher on a per sale fee for their leads then do the typical PPC ads do.
You can find numerous advertisers on sites such as commission junction or click bank for you to choose from.

One such example is an article I recently just did on a Scam Blog about Identity Theft Protection where I integrated some of the BEST Identity Theft Prevention Services into an article at
http://internetscamphishing.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-prevent-identity-theft.html
Their services are Very Relevant to the Article (and that Blog in general) and therefor it is useful information for the readers and "Naturally" will have a higher Click Thur rate then less targeted (random) traffic.

This is just one example how to start making money online without spending anything more then your time and learn how to get everything setup and dealing with the Advertisers before you get in too deep with an affiliate program or spending hundreds of dollars from the so called gurus trying to sell you their latest money making gimmick which 9 times out of 10 only helps them make money.

[william m]

Affiliate marketing is a wonderful business model.. I have been involved in affiliate marketing for about 2 years now... and I love it.

As someone who wants to get started in affiliate marketing, I imagine that you will have quite a number of questions.

To answer these questions, I recommend that you go to http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com

There are several free videos which answer the fundamental questions about affiliate marketing.

To answer your immediate question... No, you don't absolutely need to have a website, but if your interested in building a serious affiliate marketing business it highly recommended that you do get your own website.

Hope this helps.

[Rahman A]

Hi Elana,

I believe you need to understand affiliate marketing first. How it works, how to use it and many more aspects. I actually run a free website helping newbies just like you to learn many different business models concerning online businesses.

In fact, I have a special tutorial website subtopic page all about Affiliate Marketing Without A Website. I strongly suggest you read them and it all FREE. I am not pushing any ebooks.

Visit my tutorial website: http://www.toliveonline.com and click on affiliate business model to learn. I hope the info on the page will help you.