Making Money with Affiliates

Affiliates are one of the most powerful tools online businesses can make use of.

In the past, with traditional brick and mortar businesses finding affiliates to sell your products was quite a bit more difficult to do. First you had to find them. Then you had to convince them to meet with you. Then you had to convince them it was worth the effort to get started. Then you had to continually deal with issues of trust…

Today we have online affiliates and affiliate networks. Affiliate networks like Clickbank connect those with high-traffic websites and those that have products to sell. As a business with a product to sell you can put it on Clickbank and offer it to their affiliates who can sign up and have your product on their website in about 5 minutes if they choose.

That’s not bad turnaround time, yes?!

Trust? Not a big issue anymore. You have access to statistics that tell all you’d want to know.

Payment? Automatic. Each affiliate site has their own terms and conditions but they’re usually quite similar. You can get paid monthly or bi-monthly as long as your balance is over some minimum – usually about $100.

Affiliate programs are really great ways to increase the range of your sales… you can go international if your product fits a need in another country.

Some top affiliate program: Clickbank & Commission Junction.

Good luck!

Dean Harrington, Owner