Sunday, February 25, 2007

Affiliate Program Tutorial By Allan Gardyne

When I hired a bookkeeper to enter my affiliate commission checks, PayPal payments, etc into QuickBooks and he saw my earnings, he suddenly developed a keen interest in affiliate programs. He started asking questions. He wanted to know how I earn such a nice living from affiliate programs. He wanted a no-hype report showing him exactly what to do. Here's the 18-step tutorial I wrote for him. You can use it, too...

Affiliate Programs Pay? Learn How to Choose Your Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Programs is one of the way I learnt that can make money online without having our own products, our own inventory, or extra costs.

Joining Affiliate Programs to sell other people’s products and earn a commission on the sales.

But wait, which affiliate programs to join?

  1. FREE - The best choice affiliate program to join is without any joining fees, but some programs only accept customers as their own affiliates.

  2. Hot product or service?- Don't waste time on product or service that is less attractive or low demands.- Try those which are hot and have high demand

  3. Commission levels - How much are you paid and compensated?- Join the affiliate programs when it offers at least a 2 tier program, meaning you will earn commission as well as get compensated based on the sales commission of those affiliates you have referred

  4. Reliability- Find out the background of the company and how they run the affiliate program- Preferred affiliate programs to have 3rd party affiliate network where you are directly paid by those affiliate network and sales are tracked using independent reliable sales tracking program