Affiliate Products: Your Ticket to Quickly Getting Started Online

Promoting affiliate products is one of the best ways to start a real internet marketing business. It provides a legitimate solution to a common problem that people from all walks of life face.

Perhaps you have faced that problem at one point or the other as well. I’m talking about the need to make money quickly.

Many people come to the internet seeking urgent solutions to financial problems. These are real problems that cause real pain and so relief is usually needed as soon as possible. You probably know what I am talking about.

Over the time I have been doing business online, I have seen hundreds of people ask for a quick way to make money online so that they can pay their rent for next month, or pay their college fees or support themselves while they look for a job in the new city they have just moved to or… fill in the blanks.

We‘ve all experienced the need for money URGENTLY.  It’s a valid need.

Now, while get rich quick schemes are definitely not the way to go, it is a fact that there are fast ways and slow ways to get started online. That’s undeniable.

So after looking at the various models of making money online, I have come to the same conclusion arrived at by many other internet marketers.

The fastest way for you to get started online is by promoting affiliate products.

It is the fastest method because you do not have to create your own product or come up with a service to offer.

You do not have to learn how to set up a sales page. You do not have to set up a payment processor or a system for providing customer service. And of course, you do not even need a website, although having one provides you with a HUGE advantage.

This means that you can be up and running in one or two days and be making some money in a week or two. Many people have done this and so can you.

So where can you find affiliate products?

Several places. Here are a few credible sources. For digital products, Clickbank.com is the leading affiliate network. On the other hand, if you are looking for a comprehensive resource that lists a wide variety of affiliate programs, Associateprograms.com is the place for you.

It is a site that belongs to one of the most experienced affiliate marketers online.

For affiliate products in a wide variety of niches, like insurance, payday loans, higher education institutions, or just about any other niche you can think of, Commission Junction is, in my opinion, the best affiliate network.

Which affiliate products should you promote?

Promoting certain types of products will make you more successful than promoting other products. For example, it is a great idea to promote products that pay you a recurring income. You get paid month in month out for your efforts rather than just once.

Another great type of product to promote is one that pays you life time commissions.  This means that for every customer you send to a merchant, you get paid every time they buy something from that merchant for the rest of their lives. Did I hear you say wow? !

This strategy works exceptionally well, when you join an affiliate program that has a lot of products that you can promote. The reason for this is that the more products there are to promote, the more products there are for people to buy over the course of their lifetime.

Logically, that means that you will enjoy more lifetime commissions.

A simple system for promoting affiliate products

Remember when I said that you can be up and running within a week or so with affiliate products?

Here is an example of how you can do exactly that.

You can set up a squeeze page to capture email addresses and then publish 7 or so informative articles using an autoresponder. The trick here is to build your list using the squeeze page and then send your subscribers informative messages using an autoresponder.

Within those messages, you can recommend products that your list members will find useful.

In order to start getting some commissions quickly, send traffic to your squeeze page using a method that produces results relatively quickly.  Google Adwords is probably the fastest way to do this. In fact, sometimes the results can be, for all practical purposes, immediate.

After your autoresponder series of messages is up and running and you are experiencing a degree of success with your affiliate products, all you need to do is increase the amount of educational and informative content that you provide to your subscribers.

In other words, extend your autoresponder series of messages while maintaining a proper frequency of sending messages. For example your chosen frequency can be 2 messages a week.

If you do this, you will create a solid relationship with your visitors. And when you combine that relationship with consistent traffic, you will enjoy more and more affiliate commissions. That is what happens almost invariably.

In case you are wondering about how to set up your squeeze page, it is super easy nowadays. With Follow Up Selling Systems, you can set one up in the next 15 minutes, literally. This means there is now no excuse for not successfully promoting affiliate products.

So if you are looking for a way to make money online relatively quickly, start by being an affiliate. It is the fastest way to get started. Period.