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Affiliate marketing - a really sexy way to create passive incomeI believe affiliate marketing is one of the best innovations on the Internet for people of create streams of passive income. I only really discovered it in my ongoing research on ways to make passive income. Of course, the huge advantage is that, in contrast to property or the stock market, there are no huge capital outlays. Your TIME, of course must be taken into consideration. I will also show you a way to really fast track this learning curve so that you can start creating little rivulets and ultimately massive rivers of cash. In 1997, Amazon.com launched the concept of affiliate programs into prominence (they weren't the first, but they were the first to do it big-time!). For the one person on the Net who doesn't know, Amazon sells books (and tons of other merchandise now) online... and only online. Books, of course, offer information on millions of different specialized subjects. And there are millions of Web sites out there, on an incredible variety of subjects. So Amazon figured, "Why not convert those sites into specialized, niche book shops for us? We'll pay a commission when a site refers a customer who buys a book." And that's how Amazon started one of the first affiliate programs (AKA associate or referrer programs). Here's how an affiliate program works, using Amazon as the example... The affiliate provides links from his site to certain books on the Amazon site, books that are related to the affiliates site content. Amazon uses special software that tracks who sends each visitor. If and when the visitor buys, Amazon pays the affiliate a commission. The affiliate never has to... • write a book • process an order • ship a book • answer customer support e-mails. And the same applies to any product that is sold in this way... CDs, travel, domain names - the list grows every single day. It is one of the best opportunities for the average person interested in e-commerce. But if you are new to the whole scene and have little knowledge of just how to get going with affiliate marketing – where do you start? Trust me, you will find plenty of websites wanting to sell you pricy e-books on how to get going with affiliate marketing – some are good, some are bad. What does affiliate success boil down to? Let's start... at the beginning! The number #1 challenge for all affiliates... Build a Web site... that builds targeted traffic... and that causes visitors to click through... with a warm, open-to-buy attitude... to merchant sites that you represent. How? There is an endless labyrinth of possible software and information/advice offered on the Net for affiliate marketing. I'm not sure which is worse... the overpriced products that underdeliver, or all the free info available, most of which does not work so it costs you something more valuable even than money... your time. The Affiliate Masters Course. This 10-DAY course focuses 100% on helping you, the affiliate, succeed. It leads you, step by digestible step, day by day, through a flawless process... ... from developing a Site Concept ... to brainstorming hundreds of profitable related keywords ... to building a themed site ... to generating motivated, targeted traffic that wants to click on your recommendations, links to the related products sold by merchants you represent. The most amazing part of this course? It's free!
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