Introduction to Affiliate Marketing
We've talked some about using Google AdWords to send traffic to web pages. The pages can be either yours or someone else's, Google doesn't care. If you have your own web site it can be an excellent way to cash in on new hot trends, or fads.
For example a couple years ago, they came out with micro RC cars that all the kids wanted, it was one of the hottest toys of the year. I was able to find a supplier at the right price, was easily able to add a page to my web site to take orders, but I knew I needed to get traffic to that page immediately, I couldn't wait for the search engines to find me and take my chances about getting on the first page. I just knew that the fad would die off the day after Christmas.
So I set up a quick campaign on Google AdWords, and 15 minutes later had traffic coming to my page for anyone looking for micro rc cars, in fact we had orders the same day.
But, if you don't have, or want, your own web site, or if you don't have, or want to stock a particular type of item even if you have your own site, you can certainly take advantage of someone else's inventory. That's what is called affiliate marketing.
To introduce you to the wonders and potential riches of affiliate marketing, I've put together several pages of material, we have an email course set up for it, but since we know and talked about the problems with email subscriptions, I'll use this blog to send you to the course, day by day. Here's the first lesson, your "Introduction to Affiliate Marketing".
During this multi-day course, we hope to educate and inspire you to join us in the ranks of those earning money selling other people's products. Enjoy today's lesson, and feel free to post a comment on this or any other blog entry by clicking on the button below. We reserve the right to edit or delete inappropriate comments, of course, but within reason we welcome any or all feedback.
