What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is the answer when you want to start an Internet Business on a limit budget. Understand the different of Affiliate Marketing and to become an Affiliate of a Home Based Business Opportunity.

You may ask now what is the different of Affiliate Marketing and Affiliate of a Home Based Business Opportunity, is that not the same?

The answer is no! As an Affiliate Marketer I promote other people products, which can be digital or physical products. I personal like digital products from Click Bank. Click Bank is kind of a middle man who offers thousands of different digital products from their vendor’s. Vendor’s offering here their products and marketers selling the products. Click Bank collect the payment from the customers, and than they pay the vendor and marketer their portion. As a marketer you have nothing to do with customer service, products or business.

You are just like a retailer who opens his shop and put other people product on the shelves to sell it. On the Internet I show people my website of the products and after they buy they can immediately download it and use it. This means that with a local shop you must buy the products and create Inventory which cost you money, to show your customer the products. A retailer buys products and than sell it with a profit to make money and cover his expenses. The same is happen when people start their Home Based Business Opportunity and be required to buy physical products most are Cosmetic, Health and Wellness products or others, they call themselves Independent Distributor.

An Independent Distributor pays to get involved with the company in a Multi Level Marketing System (MLM) even when they call them Direct Seller. When ever you make money on people below you most of the time it is three level deep, it is a multi level marketing system. Most of the time their member must recruited people into the Business Opportunity and be on a monthly auto-shipping schedule were they must buy every month for a minimum dollar or points amount to be able to make money on their down-line. On the other hand, they must pay monthly fee for websites and back office, some must be qualified or pay extra to be on member training program, expenses to attend the company seminars were only the attendants will get more information, plus the advertising expenses. They are in a strict line what they can do or not, some are even not allowed to use the product by it name in their advertising campaign.

Now as an Affiliate Marketer who use Click Bank, I pay nothing to join and no fees are involves. I just get my affiliate links and start to promote it by driving traffic to my landing page and build my list, my landing page redirect the traffic to the affiliate links which shows the vendors sales page. The customer buys, Click Bank collect the money and I get paid.

The one skill Affiliate Marketing or Business Opportunity have to learn is how online marketing works to drive tons of traffic to your site.

Traffic = Sales and No Traffic = No Sales

It is up to you how big or small your budget is to start as an Affiliate Marketer and sell unlimited numbers of products or you may need to belong to a community of a specific Home Based Business Opportunity to be motivated and network with other people. The point is it is much cheaper to start a home based business on the Internet than it is to start a local business or franchise.

Christopher & Gudrun Smith
Internet Marketing
christopher@smithenterprise.info
http://gudrunsmith.com
http://momshomebasedbiz.com