Affiliate Marketing, Start for Free

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1 Affiliate Marketing, Start for Free This is an excerpt from my ebook Creating a Passive Income which can be found at Affiliate marketing is only one of the tools I use to create an ongoing growing Passive Income. In this little ebook I will show you how you can start earning an income on the Internet without paying any fees to get started or having to join any huge orginisation. Although Affiliate Marketing is only one of various methods you can use, it is the one method where you can get started without having to pay a cent to do so. I will even make it easier for you. If you market my ebook (details below) I will give you a free copy of my complete ebook after you referred 5 successful deals to my web site. In my ebook I will explain more methods to create a Passive Income and retire at a young age. I would like to repeat a comment from my web site. The methods I explain in my ebook are the methods I use on a daily basis. I know most people would like to put a face to a web site, see that there are real people running the web site and not just empty promises. Have a look at my personal web site at to see who I am and why I can present these opportunities to you. Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing is a service where you market somebody else s service or product and you earn commission on successful sales referred by you. There are thousands of affiliate programs and even big companies like Toyota and IBM now use this type of marketing, also known as word of mouth marketing. The best way to start is by selling Get rich on the Internet ebooks. As I already mentioned, there are millions of people seeking the gold mine and they buy the one ebook

2 after the other and hardly ever achieve success. Thus they will keep on buying all these ebooks which make them excellent customers when you are selling the ebooks. Until one day, after they bought hundreds of ebooks and finally realise that they have to implement all the knowledge they gained. Then they will continue buying ebooks because the people selling the ebooks become their competitors and they have to see what their competitors comes up with. So selling How to make money ebooks will always be a good seller. The easiest way to get started on Affiliate Marketing is to open a Clickbank account. Clickbank is the best known affiliate market place for electronic products like ebooks and software. Once you registered you will find a lot of ebooks and software you can market (more than 10,000 of them) and you can pick and choose which ones you like most. To get a free Clickbank account, see Once you registered you can log into your account, go to the marketplace and obtain a special link which you will use to market the product. In the marketplace you will even be able to search for the most popular topics, thus not waste time marketing goods that are not in demand. When you look for a product to sell in Clickbank you must look for popular topics and then also pay special attention to the Gravity figure. The gravity is a score they assign to the product indicating how many affiliates successfully sold the product by means of referrals. Clickbank s definition for the Gravity figure is: Number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the publisher's products. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks we add an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value added. You can then that link to your potential clients, put it on your website or advertise it on Google Adwords. (more about Adwords later, in my ebook Creating a Passive Income )

3 Example: When you register with Clickbank you will choose a nickname. To market this very same ebook you are reading now you can use the following link: where you replace the XXXXXX with your own Clickbank nickname. When you send this link to somebody and that person uses this link to visit my website and buys my ebook, YOU will receive about R commission for telling somebody else about a great ebook that explains to you how you really can earn money on the Internet. At I created some great tools for you to use. Of course you will not just the link to them. You will write a nice explaining to them how inspiring it was to read this ebook and that you now understand why you have not made money on the Internet yet. Tip: Another great topic to market as an affiliate is Forex Trading. As I already mentioned people are looking for the easy way out. The make money by doing nothing type of promise. Some Forex Trading self-help ebooks promise exactly that. I talk about Forex Trading a little bit later on. If you do it right you can make stacks of money on the Forex market. It is exactly because it is so realistically possible to make money that so many people get involved in it. Other Affiliate Programs You can sell just about any product or service by means of affiliate marketing. If your neighbour runs his own gardening service and pays you R20.00 for each client you refer to him, that is exactly the same as affiliate marketing. If you want to market other services via affiliate marketing there are some affiliate houses where you can market services like short term insurance, broadband connections, music, mortgages, etc via affiliate marketing. The best International affiliate houses are:

4 (DGM is very UK specific) (CJ is a pain, they suspend your account if they feel that you do not generate enough traffic, support is slow and poor and their tracking codes slow your site down dramatically. I stopped using them at all) For South African specific affiliate programs see: Traffic Synergy see Offerforge see At the above mentioned you will find big name products like Outsurance, Musica, Credit Health, Sanlam, MortgageSA, etc to market. My most successful campaigns are Outsurance and Credit Health. I still find Offerforge the most supportive and clued up of them all. Earningsonline takes about two weeks to answer an . I prefer to select products to market from within the client lists of these affiliate houses. They are trustworthy and professional. Anybody can buy the affiliate software online and run their own little affiliate program. I have burnt my fingers too many times with the wrong companies who never pay their affiliates. I prefer to stick to the big boys. It is of course up to you, if you know of a reputable company having their own affiliate program you can go with them, no problem. Another well-known company that offers an affiliate program is Kalahari.net. You can earn commission by selling real books, CDs, DVDs and much more. See Talking about books. If I am not mistaken the affiliate program concept started with Amazon.com many years ago. You can also join their program at

5 Tip: I found that marketing services like insurance, mortgage brokers, credit checks, etc found at the affiliate houses above work better using banner ads than marketing self-help ebooks via banner ads. I use some of my websites like and to market these products. While I mention banner ads. PLEASE, I have seen it so many times - DO NOT create a website that consists ONLY of a bunch of banners! You will be wasting your time. If you do that you make yourself guilty of building a crappy website. Even on websites like banner ads only have a 0.5% to 1% click through rate. Banners are probably the worst way of advertising. You must add useful content to your website and then add the banners as an addition to your website only. It works this way: The visitor is looking for something specific. He finds your website, he reads your useful content, he finds what he was looking for and is now looking for the next information. He now clicks the banner he sees on the page, he tells his friends of the great website where he found the information they were looking for, they also visit your site. Advertise In order to make some sales people must know about the web site. You can advertise in various ways. The quickest and easiest way is to add a small ad to your , blog or forum signature. Something like: Creating a Passive Income for the future be sure to replace the XXXXX with your Clickbank ID. Free Ad web sites You can get some free ad web sites at:

6 But keep in mind that everybody who reads this ebook might advertise there. The best way to look for free advertising is to go to a search engine and do a search for free online ads or free classifieds. You can use to search. Pay Per click You can also use Pay Per Click advertising like Google Adwords and Peppor. You can register at and to use these services. With Pay per click you determine a certain amount which you are willing to pay web site owner each time a visitor clicks on your ad. In my ebook Creating a Passive Income I explain Pay per Click advertising in more detail. This is it for now. Good luck with the business. Remember that if you bought my ebook you can also register at the interactive forum in order to discuss your marketing strategies with the rest of the team. Best regards Pieter Pretorius

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