Making Your OWN Business From Affiliate Programs
WHY MAKE IT YOUR OWN BUSINESS? No matter how you look at it, if
you're someone else's affiliate, you are, for the most part,
helping them build their business and not your own. Unless, that
is, you take other's affiliate programs and re-sell items and
MAKE YOUR OWN business out of them. Now don't get me wrong,
there is nothing wrong with helping to build another's business
while being paid a commission to do so. However, think of it
this way. Have you seen the cartoons where a newborn chick comes
out of its shell and looks up at the first animal it sees and
says 'mama' even though it's a dog or something and not it's
real mother? If you refer people directly to an affiliate web
page with your advertising, who is it they are establishing a
connection with? That's right, the affiliate program, NOT with
you. Now, if your advertising leads directly to YOUR web site
for YOUR business where you then make a recommendation to
affiliate programs or re-sell items you believe are valuable,
who are they establishing their first connection with? That's
right, YOU! Sure, as they purchase items or join affiliate
programs they will identify with the owners of those products or
programs, but they will always remember YOU as the one that sent
them there. Which means they will also remember you and your
site as a resource. Now doesn't that sound like a better way to
do things? HOW TO MAKE IT YOUR OWN BUSINESS Create your own
business name, domain name, and web site. >From that, build your
OWN Internet presence. This gives you SO many more options for
promoting. You can publish your own ezine from that domain, get
listed on search engines, offer multiple programs from one
place, offer freebies with purchase, trade links with others,
engage in joint ventures, and make personal recommendations of
items and programs. As well, you can still use paid advertising
and purchase guaranteed visitors. However, you are now giving
your site visitors MORE to choose from and a reason to return,
thereby increasing the overall effectiveness of your marketing
dollars. Did you catch all that? Doesn't that sound like the
things a successful Internet business does? Of course, and you
need never develop your own product, just develop your OWN web
presence using other's products and services as your sale items.
Affiliates for programs compete amongst themselves. If you can
establish your own unique web presence, you can rise above that
affiliate competition. Develop your own marketing scheme, get
your own repeat contacts, and build your own reputation. Why
spend all of your efforts simply promoting others? Make your OWN
business out of what they offer and increase returns for
yourself. After all, who are you in business for?