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Start Your Journey In Internet Marketing With Affiliate Marketing
For Internet marketing newbies starting their journey in Internet marketing, affiliate marketing is the fastest way to start making money online.
So what exactly is an affiliate marketing program?
An affiliate marketing program is a system where a creator of a product enlists other people or companies to help sell the product. Those other people (called affiliates) who helped sell the product get a percentage of the sale proceeds and gets paid automatically after the sale has been made.
Not all affiliate marketing programs are the same. But good affiliate marketing programs should not charge for affiliates to join. After all, affiliates help create sales and the vendor only pays the affiliates after a sale is made. In fact, owners of affiliate marketing programs will do their best to make it easy for their affiliates to market and sell their products.
Internet marketing newbies with no products of their own and no subscribers list (or opt-in list) to start with, affiliate marketing provides the means by way of products, website and payment system already set up and running.
All that needs to be done is driving traffic to these affiliate product websites by a variety of methods.
But that may not be the smartest way to go about doing it. Like all internet “gurus” who says, “The money is in the list”. What is this list they keep talking about? This list is actually a list of names and email addresses of people who signs up or subscribes for a free gift or newsletters.
So what a smart internet marketer would do is set up a website that describes the benefits of a particular product and at the end of the description to have a means of allowing an interested reader to fill in his or her name and email address to either, receive a free gift (report, eBook or software) and/or to sign up for a newsletter.
This single page website is known as a squeeze page or landing page. Sometimes it’s also known as opt-in page.
The function of a squeeze/landing page is to describe the benefits the product would bring to the reader and get them interested enough to fill in their names and email addresses in boxes (known as opt-in boxes) and then send them to the affiliate product website.
So the basic idea is to drive as much traffic (known as “suspects” at this stage) as possible to the squeeze/landing page and get as many “suspects” as possible to submit their names and email addresses (which would turn them into “prospects) and send them to the affiliate product website. And let the scintillating sales page on the affiliate product website convert as many “prospects” as possible into “buyers”. And if its done successfully, you’re on your way to financial freedom!
Depending on the method the traffic is driven or generated, the squeeze/landing page could take on a more complicated form. A reader searching on the internet for a solution for a problem or answer is initially looking for information. If your squeeze/landing page contains relevant information besides opt-in boxes, the reader would tend to stay longer. In between your pages of relevant information, there are simple links that contain your affiliate information (known as affiliate links) which the readers click for more information. This would bring them to the affiliate product website and this would increase your conversion rate of turning the “suspects” into “prospects” and then to “buyers”.
Yes, the internet marketing newbie still do need to build a simple website in the form of a squeeze/landing page. To enable this squeeze/landing page to be put up on the Internet, a domain name and a web-hosting account is required. These can be obtained from web-hosting companies like An Hosting, Netfirms or Hostgator.
A domain name is the web address or the URL (Universal Resource Locator) that you type in the box at the top to go to a website. A web-hosting account is an account you opened with a web-hosting company to store all your website information (design, layout, contents of your website). These web-hosting companies stores your website information (among many others) on computers commonly called servers, that runs 24/7 so that anyone on the Internet can access your website at any time.
To build a simple website, a software that can create and edit a webpage is used. Frontpage, Dreamweaver and NVU (free) are software that can be used for creating and editing a webpage.
However, if an affiliate marketer finds all this beyond his/her capability, website building can be out-sourced.
Therefore affiliate marketing is one of the easiest, fastest and low-cost way for an inexperienced internet marketer to start making money online.
Super Affiliates - Here I come!
Guess what? I signed up Ewen Chia’s Super Affiliates Inner Circle Membership Club yesterday.
Before I signed up, I was wondering if I’ll get all the 5 modules at a go or each module a month. So I told myself to commit for at least 6 months.
Know what? I’m glad I signed up. There are TONS of stuff at the membership site. Not only all the 5 modules were there, the bonuses were there as well. I must say in all fairness that its the most comprehensive in terms of all areas of Internet marketing being covered. At least that’s my first impression. I’ve yet to explore all the links. All these for a mere $47! USD of course. But even if its in British £, it’s still a steal!
I started downloading all the files and videos at 11.30pm last night and at 2.30am I’m still downloading the stuff! Ok, maybe the server is not the fastest there is but there’s really helluva lot to download. I was tired since I had a long day, and left the computer on to download the rest of the files while I tried drifting off to dreamland.
My body was tired but my mind was still pretty much awake. From the brief perusal of the Super Affiliates website, its great for a beginner as the range of topics covered is really comprehensive with the basic stuff to the more difficult stuff. I’ll spend the next few days exploring and will post more details as I uncover them.
Super Affiliates Inner Circle Membership Club
I’ve stayed up to catch the launch of Ewen Chia’s Super Affiliate Inner Circle Membership Club.
It’s US$47 per month as a member with a 56-day refund policy.
In a nutshell, there are 5 modules:
Module 1: 15-step Top Secret Super Affiliates Blueprint –> 120 page PDF file
Module 2: Super Affiliates Step-by-step Video Tutorial Training
Module 3: Super Affiliates Monthly Expert Audio Training
Module 4: Super Affiliates Commissions - Live Video Case Study
Module 5: Super Affiliates Mystery Instant Business-In-A-Box
If you sign up there’s video and webinar training bonuses. You will also get a first passive income stream set up and ready to go for you automatically.
Sounds great…But don’t they all? Any “guru” worth their salt will have great sales copy that tempts you to sign up.
Am I gonna sign up? I’ll check with my buddies first…





