Selling stuff you don't own

Affiliate marketing is selling stuff you don’t own to people you never see!

So if you, as the affiliate, don’t have to do any selling, stocking products, shipping to the customer, or answering their questions about the product, what in the heck DO you do?

Sounds like the world’s cushiest job to me.

Well, it is in many ways. But that means that you have to be good at the few things you DO have to do, which include:

· Getting people to come to your site (I'll show you how to create your own web site quickly, so don't worry about that if you don't have one -- or the site you represent as an affiliate). You do this basically four ways: 1. Search engine optimization; 2. Publicity via article writing and press releases; 3. Pay per click campaigns; 4. E-mail.

· Sharing with those people who come to your site in a way that makes them want to “click-through” to your merchant. You do this by writing helpful articles about the products you represent, and/or using audio and video on your site to tell about your products.

· Capturing the name and e-mail address of those folks who come to your site. You do this by using either a “name squeeze page” or a pop-up or an opt-in box on your site.

· Following them up with interesting and enticing e-mails that make them want to come back to your site or the site of the merchant you represent. You can do this by subscribing to an auto-responder service and then sending out a series of helpful e-mails on a sequential basis – daily, weekly, or whatever. An alternate to this is using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) I cover all that...

And that is what this e-book is all about -- how you can develop a full-blown web business right at home in your family room without having to have or create your own product.

Here are just a few of the companies you can represent from the comfort of your family room:
American Express
WalMart
Amazon
Lands End
1-800 Flowers
KBToys
Cingular
Omaha Steaks
Apple
Musician's Friend
Dell
Radisson Hotels
PetSmart
Golfballs.com
Western Union
Iomega
Thrifty Car Rentals
Drugstore.com
and hundreds more!


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