The Affiliate Marketing System

The Affiliate Marketing System: I frequently hear my students asking, "What is the affiliate marketing system and can it work for me?"
Read this article to the very end. You will discover:
• The 1 thing you absolutely must avoid if you want to succeed risk free.
• 3 ways to get more enjoyment out of your online business building. (Yes, it is supposed to be fun!)
• How to use a common 4 step process to skyrocket your site's ratings.
The internet gives the average person a the level playing field to anyone who is ambitious and willing to learn. Never before could anyone compete successfully with large corporations to attain their dreams. Dreams come true every day on the internet. Learning to make money online is to feel the soft silk of success beneath your fingers.
What is affiliate marketing? It involves a person's becoming a commission salesperson for a company. The big difference between an old fashioned salesman and an affiliate marketer is that if the salesman didn't sell, he or she would be fired and replaced by someone new.
In affiliate marketing, if you don't sell, you don't make money. As a website owner, you could be an affiliate for dozens of companies so if the products of one or two don't sell, you still have a chance to make a go of it with the other companies' products you are an affiliate for. There is no firing.
All this is made to appear very complicated by some who want to sell you their magic solution. Considering all the hype out there, it is not your fault if you haven't succeeded yet. Just read on.
The affiliate marketing system in a nutshell.
Mary in Vancouver has a Chihuahua dog named Vincent. Fall is coming and even Vancouver gets cold in the winter. Vincent will need a new winter wardrobe. One must maintain standards, you know. Mary loves walking the walkway with little Vincent running beside her as they share a secret passion for cotton candy.
She accesses her favorite search engine and enters a search for "Chihuahua winter clothes". As usual, her screen fills up with the top 10 ranked sites for Chihuahua clothes. Statistically, the top 3 get the lion's share of the clicks.
This is the first of the 4 steps mentioned above. A successful website learns to attract free (organic) traffic to their online offering. Contrary to what some gurus say, learning to attract quality, high value free traffic through the search engines is not rocket science.
Someone who takes their time to learn and experiment a bit will do just fine. Never mind what the experts with the pricey solutions have to say.
One of the top websites is called Chihuahua-Clothes-R-Us and the description catches her eye. She clicks the link and is immediately taken to an amazing page featuring all kinds of Chihuahua clothes.
This is the second of the 4 steps mentioned above. You have to have quality content on your website. For this reason, it is highly encouraged that you build your site around a theme you love like Chihuahua dogs. Your love of the subject will shine through your pages.
Mary is distracted by a page on beach wear for when Vincent goes with Mama to the beach. There are terry cloth coats for when he has his bath or he is taken to the doggie spa and so forth.

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