Many people are making money from affiliate programs. To start off, you should have a website or blog with solid contents, with a professional domain name such as .com ( register at www.FreeDomainsRegistration.com ), then apply to the affiliate managers, or affiliate networks, inlcuding popular ones such as :-

a. Linkshare.com

b. CJ.com

c. ShareASale.com and more

During the sign up process, the affiliate manager will screen your website before deciding to approve your website in this program. Some of the affiliate networks will also ask you to complete the US tax forms. For non-USA residents, who are making money from affiliate program, you can complete form W8-BEN with your personal particulars. Without this US tax form, your affiliate commission payment might not be paid to you, therefore, the information entered should be your real particulars.

Therefore, no matter if you are a Malaysia affiliate, Singapore entrepreneur, or Hong Kong, China affiliate marketer, you also need to fill the similar form as above.

Posted by Harrace, Senior Internet marketing coach

Want to learn how to make money online like eOneNet.com? Want to help your friends and loved ones to make money online too?

Now you have a chance to join as eOneNet’s Super Affiliate. If you are interested to apply, attend eOneNet’s Affiliate Meeting as follows:

 Date: 14 June

Time: 7pm – 9pm

Agenda:

7:00pm: Introduction of eOneNet’s New Affiliate Program (including eOneNet’s new line of red hot Japan organic skincare products) and how you can make $100,000 or more per month or more

7:30pm: Application for eOneNe’s new Affiliate Program

8:00pm: Product Training and New Ways of Marketing to hit the $100,000 per month affiliate income (For  approved Affiliates only)

9:00pm: End of Meeting

If you are interested to attend this meeting, call 2591 9168 to book a place NOW!

However, only eOneNet Internet marketing coaching graduates are qualified to attend

Posted by Harrace, Senior Internet Marketing Coach

After conducting two 1 day Web 2.0 Internet Marketing seminars in our KL office last weekend, Fione is back to Hong Kong and will be revealing another hot making money online tip in the eBusiness Club meeting to be held this evening: How to make money online with Amazon store.

This is one of the easiest way to make money online and is after all, FREE!

Fione will be revealing how to set up an Amazon store step by step, and how to find the hottest selling products in Amazon, and how to add these products to the Amazon store instantly.

As this is a hands-on session, members may open a new store live and add the products to their stores before the end of the meeting, and will start making money online with Amazon starting from tonight!

In fact, we have just opened a new Amazon store selling weight loss surgery! And we don’t have to be a medical doctor or a hospital to do that.

Visit our Amazon weight loss surgery store NOW!

Posted by Harrace, Senior Internet Marketing Coach

One of the ways to make money on the Internet, if you don’t have products of your own, is using Affiliate programs. However, many affiliate marketers are not really making money on affiliate programs, except some of eOneNet Internet marketing coaching graduates who have become full time Affiliate marketers after making a very decent income from this area.

Today, we have a guest post on Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Top 10 Tips. Here it is.

Affiliate marketing is one of the most lucrative ways in which to make money online but so many people fall at the first hurdle. In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is when you take a service or product that`s available on the Internet and you promote it to someone else using a special trackable link.

The most common method is Pay Per Sale (PPS) or revenue sharing. In practice this means if your website features an article on fitness DVDs, for example, you can sign up to an affiliate program that sells them. You can then include a special link, with a URL specific to your account, from your review to the product. Every time one of your users clicks through and buys the product you get a percentage of the sale.

Less commonly, some affiliate programs also offer Pay Per Click (PPC) so will give you commission for every visitor they receive, or Pay Per Lead (PPL) where the affiliate will give you commission for every contact detail they get from a visitor who found them through your site.

If you`re looking to start making money through affiliate programs the best place to start is with an affiliate program or network such as Commission Junction (CJ), TradeDoubler, Affiliate Window, ClickBank, LinkShare or indeed any number of sector or geography specific networks. As an affiliate publishers, the network takes the hassle out of reporting and accounting commissions, collecting payments and of course identifying relevant merchants and providing links and creative for you to use. You can of course opt to sign up directly with a merchant, many of whom will provide tracking, reporting and creative but you will of course need to ensure you get paid!

So, to get you started, here are 10 tips on making money through affiliate marketing.

1. Consider your user. What do you think would trigger them to purchase from your merchants? Start with the reader in mind, not the product.
 

2. Try the product you’ re linking to first. It’s  difficult to promote something if you don`t know the first thing about it. Also make sure yor’re linking to quality products so your website doesn’t get a bad reputation.
 

3. Promote products which are relevant and consistent with your website’s content. For example, if your website is about diets and weight loss, you should source for products from affiliate programs which are relating to diets or weight loss, instead of some unrelated products, e.g golfs.

4. Where possible, always link to a specific page, not the merchant’s homepage, as this “deep linking” approach should ensure better conversion rates.

5. Don’t be afraid to list some of the product`s flaws. This will show your user that you have their best interests at heart and will mean they return.

6. Place affiliate links within the text, or contextually, rather than at the end of a paragraph or after the words “click here”. This will help you to explain the product in greater detail around the link.
 

7. Combine with other revenue streams. Try to complement the links with your pay per click ads, as different users respond to different advertising methods.
 

8. Work on boosting the overall traffic to your site through SEO and PPC. The more people you can get to see your well-placed affiliate links the higher the success rate.

9. Don’t swamp your copy with affiliate links as this will annoy your user (and potentially the search engines) – they will think the only reason you’ve written the article is to make money, not to help them. One very well-placed link will get a greater success rate than ten vague or off-topic ones.

10. Finally, always track your results. Which links worked best? Which products sold well? Then use the results to plan any future activities.
Affiliate marketing in the UK is now a mature industry driving billions of pounds of sales revenues. Choose your sector wisely, work hard on your site and you could be sharing in this success.  www.lammo.net

One of the main concerns about making money online with Affiliate Program is what happens when your referred Customer decides to makes a second order.

At that point, your Customer already knows of the Merchant website and will go direct to that merchant site without visiting your website or blog link?

Therefore, you need to read the payout plan of the Affiliate Program that you have joined to be aware of which program will actually yield you more income. That is why when you choose affiliate program, you should find those that are having commission on return sales / repeated orders too (to protect your efforts)

During the first time your customers buy, they are already on that merchant’s website to complete their transaction and remit payment.  Therefore when the customer decides to make a second purchase, or even if in some cases of customer renewing their online membership the second month, this customer do not need to click on to your affiliate link before reaching the merchant’s website.

You will also find some merchants that even offer lifetime commissions on reorders (but this is only tracked mostly based on client’s email so if client use NEW email to purchase, then you will not earn anymore commission).

By properly choosing the affiliate programs to join, you will definitely get to earn multiple sources of income for your website business too.

Posted by Fione Tan, head Internet Marketing Coach

Posted by Fione Tan, head Internet Marketing Coach

Affiliate program allows you to recommend other people’s products and then make an income from their activity / response on that website (such as making a purchase or joining as member)

One of my internet marketing coaching students recently asked me this affiliate program question:-

In some affiliate programs, they’ve indicated a first tier payout and a second tier payout of different percentages. What are first tier payout and second tier payout?

My answer was:-

You are the affiliate and then recommend me & Harrace to visit website B (means MERCHANT).

When i go & visit website B, i also join the affiliate program so i become an AFFILIATE too.
- then you will earn 2nd tier payout (% of how much commission i am earning)

When Harrace goes & visit website B, he immediately buys something so he becomes a customer
- then you will earn 1st tier payout (commission on his amount of purchase)

Therefore, it’s best to join an affiliate program that can offer you at least a two-tier affiliate program so that you will earn more income.

Posted by Harrace, Senior Internet Marketing Coach

With the unprecedented success of eOneNet’s Internet marketing services and Internet marketing coaching programs in Asia, we will be excited to introduce the first Internet marketing affiliate program – offline.

This is the first offline Internet marketing affiliate program to be launched in Asia! The objective of this program is to enable the affiliate to earn a substantial income for referring customers to purchase any of eOneNet’s products, services, or coaching programs.

Details of this program will be released to qualified applicants only. Initially, applications are only open to graduates of eOneNet’s Internet marketing coaching in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

If you are interested to grab this lucrative making money opportunity, please let me know.

Posted by Fione Tan, head internet marketing coach

During my coaching discussion with one of my DVD internet marketing home study coaching student, she raised these common questions that you too, might also face when intending to join affiliate programs.  

1. What is the meaning of pay per sale and pay per lead?

Pay per sale means you refer sale fo US$100 & if commission is 15% then you earn US$15. Pay per lead is more popular for B2B or the sales cycle that are longer (eg require many follow up etc). Pay per lead eg can be US$2 per form filled or the US$3 per free member recruited

2. What is the meaning of cookies?  

Cookie means they track when the customer you refer came back & make the first purchase. You refer Mary but she clicked & didn’t buy today, but came back 3 weeks later so you will still get paid. 1 year means if user come back within 1 year from the day she clicked.

- cookie is a code that is installed into the client’s pc when they visited the merchant’s site. So if user use another pc or clicked on another resellers link or formatted the pc, then the cookie won’t matter anymore

3. What is the meaning of 2 tier affiliate program?

2 tier means if you get a client who buy , then you get the commission. If the person you refer didn’t buy BUT joined the affiliate program then you will also get to override on this affiliate’s sale. This means that whether you refer a sale and refer another affiliate (reseller), you can get to earn the direct commission on sales, or to earn the over-riding commission on what your other referred affiliates are making. 

Basically, it is free to join affiliate program, if you are an affiliate but if you want to start this affiliate program & become a merchant then you need to pay.

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Posted by Fione Tan, head internet marketing coach

Here are some common questions posed by entrepreneurs when they want to join the free affiliate programs

1. I found an affiliate site but in order to use their banners, I need to have a website first. As my website is still not up yet, how am i supposed to get contents for my website?
- do I copy from the existing site or must I build up my own contents and banners?
- what is the procedure for me to get the contents onto my site so that I can sign up with the affiliate program merchant for approval?

Here is the answer from internet marketing coach:-

Here are the steps to get started when joining the affiliate program:-
- list out the affiliate programs that you intend to join (eg about 10 free affiliate programs and their payout rates)

- do not copy articles, contents from other people’s websites unless they have given you permission to do so (and even if they let you use their articles, you should also check what is the benefit to them eg do you need to link to them, mention in source?)

- to plan your own website structure for inserting contents in, eg if you are doing a website about atkins diet so you will be having pages like what is atkins diet, free atkins diet menu plan, popular atkins diet stories, and more

- you should have about 5 webpages of contents and make sure there are no pages that shows under construction, or coming soon

- then you use your website name or blog url to apply for the free affiliate programs

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Posted by Fione Tan, head internet marketing coach

One of my coaching participants, brought up these questions about how to choose the best top 10 affiliate programs, and how to actually join the best affiliate programs with the highest payouts.

Here are the questions that were posted about the free affiliate programs and the answer from Internet marketing coach:-

1. What would be the main criterias to look for in choosing an affiliate program besides considering commission payable vs price?

You can compare between 2 or 3 different affiliate program merchants
- the commission who is higher
- one off commission on referred sale or including future sales from this customer
- is it single tier or multi tier (what if you recruit affiliates too, do you get paid/override their commission)
- which site has a competitive pricing
- range of services & products (local vs international coverage of delivery)?
- the overall website design, which has more ease of navigation

At the end of the day, it’s about you recommending a website that sells quality products and services that appeal to your website visitors. If you find that you dislike the website design and feel that the products offered are not attractive, it’s likely that your prospects, visitors also feel the same.

2. What if the merchant site / owner of this affiliate program was not able to process / deliver my orders when the item that my customers selected is out of stock?

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