Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate Programs Checklist

Copyright 2006 Tom Washington

"All Internet Businesses Are Not Created Equal!"

When building a successful Internet businesses to promote affiliate products and services, you must first have a solid understanding of market research and testing skills. All Internet business opportunities and affiliate programs aren't created equal. Affiliate programs, associate programs, referral programs or partnership programs are only as good as the businesses behind them.

Make it your goal to identify the very best affiliate programs available in your niche. Research and test until you discover which businesses have the products, services, and marketing systems in place to convert the traffic you send them into profit.

Free franchise anyone? Identifying the best affiliate programs is like finding successful small business franchises, except they are absolutely free. The types of business owners that are best to target will already have designed, tested and optimized a sales & marketing system that their affiliate sales force can easily plug into and profit from. Affiliates can then concentrate on referring as many qualified prospects to the company's web site as possible.

Affiliate Program Checklist:

Here's a great list of criteria to consider when evaluating affiliate programs to promote in your internet business: