Some Basic Tips on Affiliate Marketing

Outside of promoting your link, you can still make some headway on the Internet by selling your product directly through affiliate marketing networks. Affiliate networks sell your product directly through their website, taking a small percentage per sale. The advantage of this, however, is the ability to set commissions for people who market your product for you. If an affiliate's marketing efforts result in a sale, they'll receive a portion of the money from that sale, giving them a strong incentive to market your product in ways that will be useful to you.
The real benefit of affiliate networks is their cost-effectiveness for the business owner: you don't have to pay to publish your link to an extremely wide audience unless you actually make money as a result of your affiliates' efforts. If you don't sell any additional products through affiliate marketing, you don't lose any additional money. Depending on the commission you offer, however, this could be either very useful or very problematic--a 22% commission, for example, means that you'd be paying out 30% of your product's price for every sale and only keeping 70%. (This also means that much of your careful site design work isn't being used.) But used in conjunction with other advertising methods, you can sell your product to a much wider audience, still make a profit, and increase the overall visibility and reputation of your business for any eventual expansion.
We've given you a number of potential strategies for promoting your product in this chapter. Don't think, however, that the key to successful promotion is simply to choose the most effective of these strategies. The key to successful promotion is to use all of these strategies as often as possible: to distribute your link to friends and to directly promote your link on sites and forums while still paying for some wider-range advertising or affiliate networking. The more strategies you use, the more people you reach--and the more sales you'll get.
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