Affiliate Marketing Tips – Is Online Affiliate Business Program a Sustainable Business Model?
Working on the internet can be a little bit tricky at times and this has made it almost impossible for the lay man to setup a business for themselves.
Many times I have heard people complain on the Warrior Forum where I often hang out often that a very lucrative business like affiliate business is not a sustainable business model. How true can this be? Keep reading this affiliate marketing tips if you want to find out how to work online for yourself.
As the argument of whether online affiliate business program is a sustainable business model heats up, a lot of people kept pouring in their opinion and most of them made sense.
Fact is as an affiliate marketer, you don’t have control over the sales page you direct visitors to, the affiliate company might decide to make some changes that might not be in your favor and there is nothing you can do.
Affiliates do not have a say over the amount of percent the company wants to pay neither are they in charge of customer care unit.
Some people went as far as saying in online affiliate business program you get to generate some sales this month and the other month you are off to the beginning again.
All the things said above about affiliate programs is correct except for the last one which says you get to generate sales this month and off the race for new sales.
Some of the products affiliate marketers promote offer recurring income opportunity. Meaning, you can get paid many years after for just one sale so long as the client keeps renewing his members. Imagine you are promoting a hosting package that pays you $10 for every customer you bring and you have 50 loyal customers. You will be earning $500 monthly and as you fire on your marketing campaign so does your number of client increases as well as income.
Companies like Amazon do not have a single product of their own and yet they are one of the biggest and most successful affiliate companies in the world today. ClickBank also has tons of affiliate products and have been in business for years and raking in millions of dollars from affiliate products. These are just some of the biggest affiliate company, there are individuals who have established themselves in this kind of business. You just have to put on your thinking hat and be creative.
Affiliates can create products of their own, this is very possible as most products are digital and internet based. That way you have control over your own product and get to keep all the commission. Affiliates can also create a site of their own and promote more than one product on it. This will give them the opportunity to test ride different product and easily keep control of their income as all companies can not disappoint you in a day. By creating your own site, you own the traffic that comes to that site, you can add or remove any product that is not favorable to you and so on.
For me online affiliate business program is remains one of the best business model.
I hope you find this affiliate marketing tips interesting.
To Your Success,
John Benjamin