Why do I feel that affiliate marketing on the internet is one of the best ways to make money on line?

1. Affiliate Marketing on the Internet is cheap.
It is possible to do affiliate marketing for free. Article directories and free websites like Blogger.com can provide the basic tools needed to market products without cost.

2. Affiliate Marketing on the Internet is easy.
I currently work in retail management. To have a store I need inventory and employees which are both costly. My profits grow smaller by paying for theft, breakage, and bad checks. I need to pay for unproductive times (holidays, vacation), and also pay social security, and insurance on employees and the property. My profits are less than 1% of all the sales from the business.

When I compare this to Affiliate Marketing on the the Internet, Affiliate Marketing wins hands down. My costs are for an internet connection ($40/month), domains ($10 per year for each), various tools and training ($60/month). The rest of the costs involve the time and effort I put into the business. My total costs are about $100/month. That is all that is taken out of my profits.

While affiliate marketing is easy in the sense of not having to hassle with many of the costs of operation, it is not easy to do. One needs to become knowledgeable in article writing, SEO (search engine optimization), keyword research, PPC (pay per click), html (special computer language), and web design. Without the help I received from Wealthy Affiliate I would not have got this far along in affiliate marketing.

3. Affiliate Marketing on the Internet is wide open.
If you have an interest or passion, you can make money as an affiliate marketer. The web is looking for unique, valuable content that can easily be provided by a person with a passion in that area. There are millions of keywords that are yet to be used to connect people to a product they are looking for.

4. Affiliate Marketing on the Internet can be done anytime.
As a manager in my day job, I can’t just take a second job to make money on the side. I have flexible hours and even then am on call if problems arise at the store. I needed a job that I could devote time to as I had time. Affiliate marketing on the Internet met my need of developing an income during the times I had away from my job.

5. Affiliate Marketing on the Internet is ethical.
I hate the websites that promise the moon, new cars, $1000/day, dream vacations, etc. Most of the time these are scams. They play on people’s desires to live a better life and suck them in to spend a small fortune to make the promoter of the website rich and the payee poorer. Or they convince the payee to set up a link to their website to help them scam other people.

Yes, those people will make money, but at the loss of a good conscience, and loss of integrity as they pull money out of people’s pockets that would be used to buy food, make a house payment, or keep the car filled with gas so they can go to work the next day.

I would never want to be a part of that kind of business even if I would make thousands a day. Let me be a pauper instead.

This is why I love affiliate marketing on the internet. It is doable for everyone in their own time frame, without hassles of a traditional business, with low costs, and with great potential.

Wealthy Affiliate is an amazing learning center. Imagine having the wisdom of hundreds of people who have been successful in network marketing gathered together in a forum where you can ask questions, even very basic stupid questions and get a response that is helpful.

Imagine being provided a 30 day guide to success delivered to you email box with daily tasks to get you moving in the right direction in network marketing.

Imagine being given essential tools to do the tasks like a simple web site builder, Word Press Express, which is exclusive to WA, a Keyword tool that allows you to see the competition and even spy on how they successfully market their web site, web hosting, an article writing tool, and live WAbinars which occur weekly.

The great thing is that in the little over a year that I have been with WA. They have created three additional features – live WAbinars, Word Press Express, and Street Articles Directory, which is a new articles directory that competes with Ezine Articles, Squidoo and other article directories. Street Articles publishes articles many times in a matter of hours, checks for copied material which would cause low Google rankings, and pings the articles for you.

Furthermore, Wealthy Affiliate has a great forum to ask questions that are answered by veteran successful affiliate marketers. Recently, live chat has also been added so immediate response to questions can be received. This quick response allows me to quickly take the next step in my affiliate marketing.

WA is definitely a one-stop training and tool chest for the affiliate marketer.

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 As a Worker

My day job is in management of a retail store. In that position I have noticed an amazing difference in the outlook of employees.  Most employees punch the clock, wait for breaks, and then are anxious to leave work. Clock watching has become the regular pass time of most American workers.

These workers many times just think about themselves and how the company can meet their needs, rather than making the company better.

Furthermore, the use of available resources are sometimes abused. Using more disposable product than necessary has become the way of the worker’s life.

As a Business Owner

Being in management, I hold a totally different view of work. Rather than watching the clock, I attempt to accomplish as much as I can in the limited time I am there. I know that what I don’t get done today will be waiting for me tomorrow.

I have to set goals and push to accomplish them within the time frame provided by my employer.  Sometimes this forces me to work extra hours, but it is necessary to meet the needs. Also, crises occur and require quick and immediate response.

As a manager, I realize that the payroll and the sales go hand in hand. Overtime and just having warm bodies in place if the sales is not sufficient is a drain on any profits the business may have.

Furthermore, I have to watch the amount of supply used to function each day. Watching expenses of supplies and payroll are crucial to a business’s success.

You, the Business Owner

How does this apply to you? If you choose affiliate marketing, you will be a business owner. Therefore,

• You need to set goals and work hard to achieve them . This may mean a long night and working through crisis that arise.
• You need to focus on making your time count. You are not just putting in 4 hours for a pay check. You are putting in 4 hours to make money in YOUR business. That 4 hours is money in your pocket. You can give yourself a raise by putting in more time.
• You need to watch your investment. Be sure that your outflow is a portion of your income. Give yourself a budget of how much you can spend on PPC promotions, websites, hosting, and software products that will aid you in your business.
• You need to persevere. At times it will be discouraging that the results are not showing financially. However, if you hang in there, work hard, and strive to be effective you will succeed.

 
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