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Affiliate marketing is by far one of the easiest ways to make money online. This is true because you do not have to create a product of your own. All you really have to do is promote someone else's product. Like I said it is one of the easiest ways to make money online, but there is some work that has to be done. The products do not sell themselves. In this article I will go over a couple of tips that will help you make money at home with your affiliate campaign.

The first tip is that you need to pick a good product to sell. There are literally thousands of products out there. You will need to some research to come up with a good product. One of the things that you need to look for is that the author or owner of the product has a good support system set up. You also need to make sure that you are provided with promotional tools to be able to promote the product. What I am talking about is pre made banners, pre written emails.

Once you get that under control the next thing you need to do is sell the idea. You do not want to just give the customer a link to the affiliate page. You want to presell the product and direct the customer to either your site or the affiliate site by offering them something of value. This could be an ebook, or a report on the product or service, or even a mini course that gives value to the product. In essence this is marketing. And marketing has to be a constant process in your business. You can have all the pre sell done on your site, but if you do not market and promote you will not have any sales.

What you are doing in the marketing process is building a list. This takes us to the third tip. Building a list is what will make you money over and over again. I'm sure that you've heard the line "The Money Is In The List". Well that is a true statement. What you are doing by offering your customer something of value as mentioned above is getting their name and email address so that you can send them offers and information on a regular basis. The key is to build as big a list as possible.

Finally you need to have more that one product or service to promote and sell. The more products you are promoting the quicker you will make money. Now you do not want to start out promoting more that one product, promote one product to start with until you get the hang of doing what it takes to sell the product. (The steps mentioned above) Once you are comfortable and you start to make some money than you take it to the next level, and promote more than one item. If you follow these steps and do them over and over you will be successful.

As you can see it is not too difficult to make money online with affiliate products. You do have to have a strong focus and belief that you will succeed. You also have to have a good plan of action and follow the steps outlined above and you will begin to see the results that you desire.

Copyright Frank Tello 2007

Frank is an internet Marketer with various successful Affiliate Programs. Visit Franks Top Work From Home Directory and try some of the free programs available there. You can also register for his weekly newsletter Frank Tello's ebusiness Gazette.

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One of the most effective advertisements for a product or service can be a customer testimonial or a review from an objective source. With all of the hyped up advertising copy out there, consumers are skeptical of marketing efforts.

This can be difficult to overcome, but as an affiliate, your job is to pre-sell the offer and initiate the relationship of trust between the consumer and merchant. And a recommendation from a satisfied client or industry publication serves as a very persuasive sales tool.

The testimonial as affiliate text link provides tangible proof to your site visitors and newsletter readers that the company you are promoting is capable of doing what they boast about. This sort of creative can be as short as several words, or as long as a paragraph or full page.

You'll notice that most affiliate programs do not offer testimonials as affiliate text links, but that doesn't mean you can't use them. It's actually a good thing for you if they are not being offerred to all affiliates. Then, you can contact the affiliate manager and ask for permission to use customer testimonials as affiliate links yourself.

If you prefer to run banners over text links, suggest to your affiliate managers that they ought to create some banners that are based on testimonials.

And if you are a customer of the merchant you are promoting, try writing a testimonial of your own. Don't use your own testimonial without permission - run it by the affiliate manager first.

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