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5 Overlooked Ways To Market Your Work at Home Business
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Affiliate Marketing without a Website: Can it be done?
You want to start an online business, but don't have what it
takes to start with your own products. You have the option of
starting with affiliate marketing, selling other peoples'
products for a commission.
Affiliate marketing provides online entrepreneurs the chance to
market products even without having your own product to sell.
All you have to do is to sign up with a vendor who has an
affiliate marketing program, and choose the products you want to
promote. As an affiliate, you are paid by the merchant for your
services on a commission basis, whenever you've directed a
visitor to the merchant's site and the visitor actually buys
something.
Becoming an affiliate is usually quick and easy, and for most
affiliate programs, signing up is free. In fact, if it's not
free, then just don't join. There are more than enough no cost
choices you can make.
But despite all the benefits of affiliate programs, many people
are still hesitant about getting into affiliate marketing. One
of the reasons is the lack of a website to start marketing their
affiliate products with. This begs the question of whether a
website is really necessary.
Actually, you can start promoting affiliate products without a
website. There are stategies that permit you to do this. But
don't make any mistake about the fact that it's a great
advantage to have a web site. You can consider starting without
one, but plan to eventually create a web site.
There's only one strategy that you can do without ever needing a
web site. Your income may be limited, but if it suits you, then
go for it. The answer is in PPC, Pay-per-Click advertising. I
know people making almost as much money using Google Adwords PPC
ads, as my web site makes.
Other strategies you can use without a web site, include email
marketing, offline promotions, writing e-books, and engaging in
online discussion forums.
Email Marketing
Email marketing, usinging email lists, is actually the second
most popular marketing strategy that works without a website.
What you basically do is maintain a list of your prospective
customers and email them information articles that are relevant
to the affiliate products you're promoting.
Just how could you achieve this with no web site?
With an autoresponder! But an autoresponder service costs from
$20 to $30 per month. This is actually more than the cost of
hosting a web site, many of which include a limited
autoresponder at no extra cost.
Offline Promotion
Among the common ways to promote
your affiliate products offline
are classified ads, brochures and flyers. Classified ads would
generally work best compared to the other two, because
classified newspaper ads have a wider reach.
But as you can imagine, these offline methods are all expensive
compared to the modest cost of owning your own web site.
Distributing Free e-books or Reports
Write an e-book or have one written for you by a ghostwriter.
This is a good way for you to promote your affiliate products,
as long as your affiliate links are in the ebook for the
selected topic. You could distribute the ebook via your
autoresponder service. The viral effect of a well written and
useful ebook, is quite astonishing.
Just be sure to make the content of your e-books relative to the
actual affiliate products you are promoting. And just as in
email marketing, you can just place text ad links throughout
your e-book.
Publish a Free Ezine
Ezines are online newsletters that inform your subscribers about
the specific topics. If you don't have a website and yet want to
be an affiliate, you can use your ezine to promote your
affiliate products.
If you have a website, your ezine article would be archived, and
becomes content for your site. Another advantage to having a
website.
Online Discussion Forums
With or without a website, you just can't ignore discussion
forums because they are great venues for marketing your
affiliate products. Most forums won't allow sales promotions,
but you will find some that do.
With all these strategies, it may appear that you really don't
need a website to start marketing your affiliate products. Well,
starting in an affiliate program without a website may be
do-able, but being successful is another thing. While you can
achieve some success without a website, it is rare. Greater
success requires a web site, if not now, then maybe in the near
future.
Again, having a website is not mandatory, but with the
advantages presented, I'm glad I do have one, because it really
makes affiliate marketing a lot easier for me. You should too!
Good luck with your affiliate venture.
Fred Farah
copyright 2005
About the author:
Fred Farah
Best Affiliate Products for Maximum Profits
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