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How To
Make Money From Affiliate Programs Without
Spending A Dime
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by:
Christopher Kyalo
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There
is no doubt that the most successful group amongst online entrepreneurs
are affiliates. Few are willing to go public about it but it is widely
known that that there are a number of affiliates comfortably raking in
hundreds of thousands of dollars in income every year.
Actually there is one very powerful advantage that online entrepreneurs
involved in affiliate programs have over their counterparts earning
from their own ecommerce web sites. And that is the fact that people
are usually bound to believe a person referring another web site to
them much more easily and quickly than one trying to promote their own
site. This coupled with the fact that the Internet is an amazingly
powerful referral marketing tool has made the rise of online affiliates
phenomenal within such a short time.
But there is one major stumbling block that affiliates face today. And
that is how to advertise their programs or how to generate enough sales
leads. To be successful in any online venture a person needs numerous
leads on an ongoing basis, that way they will have a chance of turning
as many of them as possible into actual sales.
Many affiliates generate leads by finding ways of harvesting email
addresses of visitors to their web sites to create an opt-in email list
which they then use as leads to refer to their affiliate sites. This is
usually done via special links to the sites that identify the
particular affiliate through which a visitor arrived at a certain site.
The more prosperous affiliates use pay-per-click ads. The effectiveness
of these ads is being eroded daily by the increasing number of
fraudsters and scum artists who have invaded pay-per-click ads in
droves. This has meant that out of the total click-throughs a person
receives and has to pay for, an increasingly horrifying percentage are
generated by fraudsters who have no intention of buying anything from
the advertised web site.
That leaves one extremely effective form of online advertising that is
in fact free. This is free articles posted at various targeted high
traffic web sites.
The net is full of experts and many of them have been quoted as saying
that articles alone are not enough to generate the sort of traffic that
brings success. My advice is that people should not be too quick to
comment on and pass sweeping judgment on subjects that they have only
had brief experiences in. As you read this there are an increasing
number of online entrepreneurs making serious money online using only
articles as their marketing tool. Including the writer of this
particular article.
The other thing that has caused many to doubt the effectiveness of
articles is the fact that they are free. Free but effective? Does it
not sound too good to be true?
Actually although using articles as a marketing tool is free, you will
be required to spend time putting in lots of hard work consistently, to
really reap the rewards. So there is a price to pay after all, although
it is not in the form of hard cash.
In fact in many cases, used skillfully, articles can be much more
effective than web sites in generating quality leads. Here’s how.
(.....to be continued - see Part II of this article.)
About the Author
Christopher Kyalo is a writer/marketing expert who
makes money online only by posting free articles. Get his free course
at bizboom@freeautobot.com and visit his blog
http://big-online-story.blogspot.com. He can be reached at
strongwallafrica at yahoo.com.
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