Affiliate Program tips by Fione Tan, Head Internet Marketing Coach.

During one of my private Internet Marketing coaching sessions, there was a question about whether we should join Competitors’ affiliate programs and if yes, how to choose.

First, decide what are your products’ strengths / advantages compared to your competitors products? Here are some tips on how to join the best affiliate programs of merchants selling similar products.

1. Check the commission payout.

- is it for 1 time sale only or also includes commission on your customers’ future purchases?

- do you get paid based on multi-tier affiliate program? Meaning if your customers become an affiliate and use their own affiliate links to complete the purchase, do you get any benefits too?

2. Choose complementary products / range

- if let’s say you sell ladies crystal watches only so you can join other affiliate programs that sells sporty watches, or other branded watches like Rolex, or Piaget since you do not carry these similar brands.

- also look at what other items / products that your customers might need. If you sell silver jewelry, then maybe you can join other affiliate programs that are selling jewelry boxes, or jewelry care such as silver jewelry polisher.

- if you sell only to Asian markets, then you can look for an affiliate program that can cover the rest of the world, so that your customers can also purchase & send to USA, or Europe.

3. Place the affiliate banners in the proper locations on your site

- if the affiliate programs are meant to be your side income (one website can have multiple sources of income), then you should avoid placing competitors’ affiliate programs banners or text links on your own order page, or sales pages.

- insert on other informational pages, eg articles, frequently asked questions, etc

- you can even choose to feature a specific affiliate program product or link directly to the product page of your recommended product. Sample of linking to a specific product page can be viewed on this blog posting :-

http://eonenet.com/wedding_blog/2007/02/27/wedding-jewelry-accessories/
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This means that those affiliate programs that you join can appear not only in your website, but also in your other blogs.

At the end of the day, you can always sell or recommend a Book about this product from Amazon’s affiliate program. No matter whether you are selling a diet pill or an online stocks trading software, there are surely some books and ebooks written on the market. Therefore when you recommend books from Amazon itself, then you can also earn some commissions from the order.

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Google adsense is whereby you can put in Google advertisers on your own webpages and when your website visitor clicks on such advertisements, you will then earn money from Google. Can you really make money on Google adsense? I’ve seen many successful cases of entrepreneurs earning thousands of dollars each month using this method alone. The key is to fully understand how this works, and then study the statistics that are derived from the Adsense area.

One of my internet marketing coaching students recently asked me this question, when should i apply for Google Adsense?

First, the details about this program as listed at www.google.com/adsense so you can read more about this money making program before you join it.

Before applying, you should think of these points:-

a) What website are you using to apply? That domain name / website should already have a few contents pages and no under construction webpages.

- if you are using a BLOG to apply then the best choice is to use your Blogger account (Google’s blog website will display your blogs as id.blogspot.com such as http://1discountshopping.blogspot.com )

- contents on your website do not mean that you just cut and paste some images there, or add in a full list of affiliate programs but to really write useful tips / contents related to the topic of your website.

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One of the ways that you can make money online without your own products, own inventory, or extra costs, is to join Affiliate Programs where you can resell other people’s products and earn a commission on the sales.

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When a person joins an affiliate program, their banners and text links will normally display their ids as part of the website url. For instance, www.eonenet.com/id=123 if my affiliate id was 123.

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Now that you’ve got some real experiences using the online dating memberships, you’ll be wondering how can you also start your own online dating website.

In this part 2, we’ll share different ways you can start your own free online dating website.

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If you are interested to make money online, then you definitely want to sell something that you are interested in. For many internet surfers, they are interested in networking and of course, online dating. This is another good opportunity, because you will be selling digital information, whereby you do not need to do delivery / shipping, nor deal with any physical products.

So, how can you start your own online dating website?

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Online? Dotcom? E-Business? More and more people are beginning to get acquainted with these Internet terms. The Internet is a global marketplace, where you can grow your business to the whole world with a concept of a 24/7 online shop, crossing all boundaries, race and gender.
In this article, I will bring you some tips on Making Money on the Internet and what to avoid.

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On average, I receive 15 Internet schemes and offers on a daily basis in my inbox. “Get paid to read emails”, “Get paid to view advertisements”, “Internet investment with high performance”, and many more I don’t care to remember.

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