Free Affiliate Marketing Video
First of all, for those of you who don’t know what affiliate marketing is, it’s a way of making money by promoting another company’s product on your website/blog. And now a days most websites have an affiliate program. Meaning you can literally promote stuff from big time companies like Amazon.com, or Target.com. In fact, most companies and/or products these days have some sort of affiliate program you can join for free and being promoting their product on your website. And if someone buys that product from the link on your site, then you get a commission, usually a % of the sale.
My very first affiliate program that I joined was back in 2002 or so. And it was Amazon.com. I put up some books from Amazon.com onto my website (they even provide the code that you simply cut and paste onto your site) and I made like $30 my first paycheck.
A light bulb went off in my head. I realized that if I could get more traffic to my site and offered more products then I could make more money. And so began the quest, which eventually led to my current self employed life style.
I have since expanded beyond affiliate marketing (I still use it for passive income) and gone into ecommerce stores, and carrying and promoting my own products, but I still make thousands each year from affiliate marketing from various sites. It’s easy, and it’s pretty much passive income, which you gotta love.
What is a bit more complicated is how to make money with affiliate marketing. Most people these days selling “How to make money online” are usually selling the exact same recipe. Which is:
- 1. Find affiliate products to sell and make a webpage for it
- 2. Take out ads in Google Adwords and send to your affiliate page
- 3. Rinse and repeat
Now, there are several variations to this process, for example, some people send them first to a squeeze pages (to capture email addresses) and so on, but in general that is gist of the “How to make money” methods on the web.
For most people, that whole process doesn’t really work too well. I have seen people lost serious $$ because they tried this and if a product fails to convert (meaning people don’t buy that product) you can lost a lot of money fast. Because you are buying traffic from Google and will owe Google for that traffic even if no one is buying that product. And depending on your budget, Google can send you tons of traffic in just a few short hours and if you’re not careful you can lose a lot $$ quick.
So there’s got to be a better way…and of course there is. Budgeting your money, rigid testing and experience in general will help. But more than that there are different techniques out there that can help minimize risk and improve profit margins.
This video from Internet Marketing guru John Reese is a free glimpse into one of those techniques. I highly recommend you watch it. It’s free and contains some very good info on affiliate marketing.
John even helped me on one of my sites a few years ago and helped me increase my profit margin about 30%. He’s an internet millionaire, drives a Lamborghini, but all in all is still a pretty good guy. I can’t blame him for being rich! At least he knows what he’s talking about 
So check out this internet marketing video when you get a chance, it’s worth every penny!