How2MM - How To Make Money Online On The Internet

Affiliation is one of my favorite ways to make money online. As an affiliate you have all the freedom to choose your affiliate program and to work with it to make money online. You actually directing your traffic to them and get paid per your traffic. You can be paid per lead PPL, paid per click PPC, paid per action CPA, paid fats fee, commission or any other payment deal you will close with them.

Most of the time, the best affiliates are dedicating traffic to the affiliate program. They build special websites, blogs, networks, database and more for their goal, directing the traffic to the affiliate program and make money online.

You want to become an affiliate but you do not know where to start. There are so many affiliate programs online for so many services, software’s and products. Who to work with? Which affiliate program is the best for me? Where to start? I will try to help with some affiliation guide.

Step one: Choose your field.

Make short research about the subject you like to work on. It can be each and every one of the options detail here: Dating, Free dating, sex dating, online dating, Online gaming, cards games, casino games, free games, Shoes, T-shirts, I- phones, computers, cell phones, pictures, videos, memories, antiques, movies items and so on………

Pick up one subject ( or two if you like to work parallel ) and search it over. Which are the affiliate programs? Which are the best ones? How much I get paid? How and when do I get paid? All these are important for you in order to choose the best affiliate program you like to start working is.

Step two will guide you how to choose affiliate program in order to make money online ………….

How to make money online with affiliate programs.

Affiliate programs are online for you, personal that are looking to make some money online. The business of affiliation started long ago and today you can find so many affiliate programs that you just don’t know where to start. The main idea of all the affiliate programs is similar, they want you to help them make money online and they are ready to pay you for it. Since you are a personal and they are a program, they have all the resources and the infrastructure to operate the program; you can join and make some money online.

Since the topics of the affiliate programs online are varied you can find the right subject you like to work on. This subject must be close to you or interested to you because you are going to work on it like hell.

Finding your affiliate program is the hard part of the job, because you can easily find yourself reading and signing up in so many affiliate programs that it will become hard to follow  ;)  Make sure you read all the terms…

Signing up for an affiliate program is a step you are doing and saying: I’m going to drive my traffic away. You must be ready to do everything a webmaster is doing; to make it pays for you. You will find yourself Adding links, writing articles, selling the products online, SEO and marketing etc. Everything you need to make money online.

Affiliate program information, tips to become an affiliate and strategy note how to choose affiliate programs, will follow……

The 3rd and last part of Becoming an Affiliate will cover the methods of promotion. But first, i have to say that the Write yourself a check website is a good example of affiliation, as you can see on the top of the page there’s a banner of Rummy games promoting Rummy Royal, if i go to Google and type “Rummy Affiliate Programs” , i find the following website under the first result of Rummy Affiliate Programs - www.rummyaffiliateprograms.com - through this website you can join the rummy royal affiliate program and become an affiliate yourself. And now back to the methods of promotion:

I will take the Rummy affiliation as an example to everything I’m about to say in this post because, well, i started with this example and it looks like a good enough example:

Methods of promotion:

There are various methods of promotions that you can use to sell the products of the affiliate programs you are working with:

1. Search Engines Sponsored Advertisements - You pay, they display. That’s the deal. In reality it’s a bit more complicated than that, but i will get to the whole bidding extravaganza in a different post.

2. A website or a blog - Let’s take How To Make Money Online as an example of a blog. In order to have a blog you need some basic knowledge of html which you can acquire just about anywhere online - simply search for “learn html” or “html school” and you’ll find what you are looking for. A website requires a little more than that. You can other learn some html and become a webmaster or pay someone to build you a website with a CMS (Content management system) so you won’t have to learn anything before you start.

3. E-mails - We already discussed this in a previous post of mine titled Spam (Don’t Spam) as a way of making money online. I’m not for it, it’s illegal so do whatever you want.

4. Offline advertisement - You can advertise your website offline by WOM (Word Of Mouth) , Flyers, Stickers, Phone or any other way which is not online.

5. Friends - You probably have some - don’t be ashamed to offer them goods, they will probably buy it somewhere else so what’s wrong with getting something for it.

6. Forums, Blogs, Social Networks - You can advertise anything you want there, just beware not to spam.

These are some of the ways in which you can promote your affiliate business online and offline.

If you know of more, feel free to comment.

Ben

There are several commission types that you as an affiliate can choose to work with and earn money according to these commission types - I will review the most common commission types in this post.

Revenue Share:

One of the most popular commission type. In revenue share, you share the revenue of the client you brought to the affiliate program with them. The revenue share formula varies according to the product and the type of contract so be sure to read the terms and conditions but the general idea is this: You are set on a commission type of (for example) 20%, the sale is $100 you get $20 the affiliate program gets the rest. If the client makes another purchase of $100 you will get another $20, usually it’s for life time.

Please note that most of the affiliate programs will try to tempt you with a high offer of revenue sharing like 50% for the first month. Be sure to check what happens in the long run (after the first month) as revenue share is profitable in the long run and not in the short run.

CPA (Cost Per Acquisition)

You get paid a fixed payment for a client who made a purchase of the product. For example a client made a purchase (regardless of the price), you get $100 CPA. Since this is a one time fixed payment, you will not make any additional commission for that client if he makes reoccurring purchases.

Please note that once the affiliate program paid you your CPA commission they actually “bought” the client from you, unlike revenue share where you share the revenue from the client with the affiliate program.

CPL (Cost Per Lead)

Similar to CPA. The only difference is that the client doesn’t have to make a purchase, but needs to sign up in order for you to get a CPL commission. Usually the CPL commission is very low and varies between $0.50 - $10 .

Hybrid 

Hybrid commission is a combination of revenue share and CPA commission. You will receive a commission from the revenue of the client but you will also receive a CPA payment for the client. The CPA payment will be much lower than the one you will get if you work solely on CPA, but it’s still the best deal you can get since it combines revenue share as well.

CPC (Cost Per Click)

This commission type is more common with advertisements you place on your website or blog such as Google Adsense which was already mentioned in previous posts.

Payment for click on your ads varies according to the relevance of the advertisement to the page displayed.

CPM - Cost per 1000 impressions 

Similar to the CPC concept only you get paid a fixed price for 1000 viewers of an advertisement. No Click is needed.

This is a summary of all the popular commission types. In the long run, revenue share is better. In the short run the CPA is better. Think what’s best for you and choose. Don’t be afraid to negotiate a better deal with the affiliate program before you start promoting them.

I will discuss about the methods of promotions in Part 3 of Becoming an affiliate.

Good luck

Ben

One of the most common ways of making money online is becoming an affiliate (partner) and sell products for a company or companies.

What is an affiliate?

An affiliate is an advertiser who partners with a company in order to sell its products and receive commissions (I’ll get to the commission on my next post) for the products sold.

If we take this concept to the real life, we can see that all the supermarkets, malls, stores, convenient stores are affiliates of companies and get commission for selling products such as clothes, food, newspapers cigarettes and basically anything people buy.

It’s the same online.

A webmaster, blog owner, person with a lot of friends and a lot of influence, can partner with a company and sell products for that company. The company will take care of everything relates to the actual sale of the product and the affiliate will take care of directing the costumer to the company.

Usually affiliates find the companies to partner with in affiliate programs or affiliate networks.

An affiliate program is usually a website in which the affiliate can choose the products he wishes to sell, get marketing tools (like banners, text and reviews) and follow his sale statistics. In addition the affiliate will handle the payment issues at the affiliate program.

An affiliate network is a network of affiliate programs. In one place the affiliate can partner with several affiliate programs instead of having to join several programs in different websites.

I will follow up on this post with further explanation about the process of becoming and affiliate.

Ben