Affiliate Internet Marketing Business

Let me ask you a question. Do you like the idea of having to store inventory, collect credit card payments, run to the post office to mail a product, and to have to deal with all kinds of customer service problems? If you are like most people, the thought of having to do all that makes you think twice about starting your own home business. The good news is that you can actually make money focusing solely on the promotion of other people’s products and services in a form of business called affiliate internet marketing.

Imagine if all your time and energy could be spent focusing on promotion and marketing, and you could do it all on the internet. Somebody else worries about creating a product, collecting payment information, mailing orders, and dealing with an entire laundry list of activities that have nothing to do with sales and marketing. What I am describing to you is easily one of the best business opportunities in the world and it’s called affiliate internet marketing. Let me explain how it works…

Companies or individuals create products and services that can be sold on the internet. You can often times sign up as an “affiliate” (usually for free) and they will pay you a percentage of the sale every time you refer somebody to their website who purchases one of the products or services that they offer. It’s sort of like working on their sales and marketing team, but you are actually in business for yourself.

Offering an affiliate program makes a lot of sense for the company because they get a lot more sales from affiliates that they normally wouldn’t have gotten. Even though they have to pay the affiliate a certain percentage they still make more money than they would otherwise. Also, some people don’t really like selling and marketing, they would rather operate behind the scenes doing product fulfillment and handling customer service. They let their affiliates do all the marketing.

As an affiliate marketer, you make money every time you successfully refer somebody to a particular website and that person makes a purchase. Commissions for affiliate internet marketing are usually at least 50% and can sometimes be as high as 100% of the purchase price. You might wonder how companies can make any money if they pay you so much money in commissions. That’s not your problem!

In reality, these companies/individuals usually have a variety of products and services, and they more than make up for any money that they pay you as an affiliate by selling the customer that you refer additional products and services over the lifetime of the business relationship. There are plenty of other ways they make money from your efforts as well. They might only break even or actually lose money on your affiliate sales, but they make up for it somewhere. Either way, it shouldn’t matter to you because you are making money without all the extra business hassles.

So, if you want to make money online, you really need to consider what an affiliate internet marketing business can do for you. There are a lot of people making a great living from affiliate marketing. I have personally made thousands upon thousands of dollars from affiliate programs over the years, and you can too.