Although I have been an entrepreneur for a long time, I have seen the most success in my business since learning internet marketing. From my experience, one quick way to make money on the internet is through affiliate sales.

Before you discount this as a good option, let me outline a simple way to approach this idea. You can begin generating cash flow this week so that you can afford domain names and outsourcing some of the details of your business. For example, you could outsource email, article marketing, and webinar setup just to name a few.

The first key is to find something to recommend. It should be something inexpensive that you can comfortably recommend to others. You don’t want to recommend a big ticket item right away, but instead start out small and build up to it. You want your list to trust you and rely on your recommendations. Look at the sales page for that product, and you will be able to tell whether or not it is appealing.

The second key is to figure out which benefits are most important. What I mean by this is what problems are your readers trying to solve and how would their lives improve if this problem were solved. This where I like to look at the conversations in the niche-related sites. I go to forums and even social networking sites to figure out the answer. Doing this little bit of research almost always results in greater sales.

The third key to affiliate sales is to write a recommendation. Let me give you a sample outline. When you write a recommendation for an affiliate product, be sure to include the following: what does it do, how does it benefit the reader, how does it compare with similar products, what did you like about it, what did you not like about it, and what is your overall ranking? You can then post your review on your blog or other website, but the whole point is to make sure it is on your site with your affiliate link and then drive traffic to your review.

The fourth key is to spread the word about your recommendation. Again, your blog or website is important. If you do not have a blog, I recommend WordPress or blogger. You can also send an email to the contacts in your personal or business account. They will be interested to hear about your recommendation.

The fifth key to affiliate sales is to supercharge the whole process with search engine optimization (SEO). You want to rank in Google for keywords people would use if they were about to buy. These are different than general keywords. When you use “buyer” keywords, you can optimize your recommendation post or web pages by using them in the post.

Without a doubt, affiliate sales can be a quick way to begin earning money. If you work diligently on these steps, you will see cash flow this week.

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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2010

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Monday, May 3, 2010

You’re invited to join me and my special guest, Connie Green, for this special call. Together we will show you step-by-step how you can EASILY integrate Affiliate Marketing.

Can you do affiliate marketing with a small list?

Connie Green is a master at making lots of money with a relatively small list.

Did you catch that? Big money from a small list.  I’m interviewing Connie to find out exactly how she does it. Don’t miss this call!

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Today, Monday, May 3, 2010
TOPIC: *Affiliate Marketing for the Rest of Us!*

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Warmly,
Stephen and Kerry Beck

www.FamilyEbiz.com

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Actually, I was setting up a membership site and I needed my
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forgot that my shopping cart still had the old one.

Long story short…none of the orders from late Valentine’s
evening until today went through.

And this was unfair to those who wanted to buy our
Valentine’s special of 14 ebooks for $14 before the
deadline. but couldn’t due to my breaking the shopping cart!

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I also broke our web page…but that is another story!

And we have a PRIVATE call-in coming up on Friday, Feb 29
from 9am-12pm for those who bought the Valentine’s special
and are on my Silver Membership list.

The private call-in allows Silver members to call in and ask
me anything they want for 15 minutes! I don’t want you to
miss out on that.

So, here is what I am going to do…

Since I broke the shopping cart (and the web site!) and some
where not able to get in, I want to extend the Valentine’s
sale from right now until midnight on Wednesday, February
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And thanks for bearing with us.

Blessings,
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Blessings,

Stephen Beck

I have been working on a web site for several months that has
taught me quite a bit…and could possibly teach you as well. It
is a web site designed totally around affiliate products and here
is how it works.

I started with keyword research to find my home page and main
pages. I looked for high demand/low competition keywords in a
particular niche and then, let the keywords tell me what people
in that niche wanted to buy.

I then went to affiliate “clearing houses” like ClickBank,
Kolimbo, Red Galoshes, Commission Junction and LinkShare to find
products to meet the need that I knew was there (because I looked
at what they typed into the search engines). For example, if I
found that 20 people a day where searching on “red 16 lb bowling
balls” and there were only 3 competing pages, I would search
these affiliate product “clearing houses” for a company that
sells bowling balls and bowling paraphernalia.

Now think about this.

I have put up a web site that attracts about 70 NEW people every
day and I have let their search engine searches tell me what they
want. I then put found web sites that sell the products they want
and I put those links on my site. Now I get a commission for
every sale that is made.

I have no inventory. I do not collect their credit cards numbers.
I do not have to deal with returns or complaints. I just get a
nice check every month from the different web sites that I
recommend. No heavy lifting required!

AND I recommend a variety of products on each page so that my
visitors are sure to find something that interests them.

Would you like to know what this niche is?

Maybe I shouldn’t tell you! You might go into competition with
me. Oh well, here it is:

Wedding Invitations!

Yeah, you heard right. Something I know next to nothing about,
but still make money at. Why, because I have let the people in a
particular niche tell me what they want through their searches on
the search engines. And I have found those products in these
affiliate product “clearing houses”.

There are a few more tricks that I will develop in subsequent
posts, but the first trick is navigating your way through these
affiliate programs like ClickBank, Commission Junction and
LinkShare. These are complicated sites that can chew up a lot of
time trying to figure out how to apply for the right affiliate
programs, how to search for the right products and how to find
the right affiliate links to put on your web site.

I have spent a great deal of time working with these web sites.
Again, these are not easy sites to navigate.

But, I have made a video tutorial to help you find your way. Of
course these sites are free to use, but if you want the step-by-
step detail of how to set up your account, how to search for
products and how to find the links to put on your web site,
emails, Yahoo groups and newsletters…then you will have to
invest $10.

I will show you every mouse click you need to start profiting
from these sites that carry every imaginable product under the
sun. Even if you already have a web site, couldn’t you stand to
offer your customers a few more choices?

So, save yourself a lot of time and use my video tutorial to
start finding these great products to put on your web site.

And once you do this with one site, then you can find other
niches and create sites for them as well. Pretty soon, you will
have a bunch of mini oil wells…each pumping a little cash into
your pocket.

Enough of those oil wells, and you can say “goodbye” to that 9-5
job!

So, click on the link below to get your copy of the clickBank,
Commission Junction and LinkShare video tutorial:
http://www.familyebiz.com/affiliateproducts.htm

Blessings,

Stephen Beck
http://www.FamilyEbiz.com

PS. The testimonies are rolling in and my beta testing is coming
to a close. My new product is getting closer and closer to
completion. Now, there will be NO EXCUSE for not having an online
business!