| The Internet has totally changed the options an | | | | and when a person goes online to search for |
| average person has when it comes to making a living. | | | | information they are not interested at first in a sales |
| Where I live more people work and home than actually | | | | pitch. |
| get up and go to work. Many of them home office | | | | So this brings up 2 important points. |
| which is done at the convenience of their employer. | | | | 1. Having your own website allows you to pre-sell your |
| For the right person this is great. You don't have to | | | | visitor before sending them to the affiliate sales page |
| waste wear and tear on your car and who needs to | | | | 2. Capturing the name and email address of your |
| pay $3.00 a gallon for gas when you can walk into | | | | visitor by offering something of value for free allows |
| your office and go to work. | | | | you to follow-up in the future. |
| Another trend is the number of home businesses that | | | | If you think about any purchase you have made online |
| are being started thanks to the Internet. I think more | | | | recently you probably did not do it right away. It has |
| and more people would like to work online and make | | | | been said the average person needs anywhere from |
| money, but they don't know how to get started. As | | | | 5 all the way up to 12 exposures to something before |
| they Google search they type in phrases like make | | | | they buy it. If all you are doing is promoting the affiliate |
| money online, or work at home, or home business. All | | | | website the company gives to you then you are |
| kinds of ideas are going to come up. When I did this I | | | | missing out on valuable sales because of a lack of |
| immediately was intimidated by the thought of having | | | | follow-up. You can offer more free stuff and weave |
| to build my own website. | | | | in the benefits of the product which will help lead them |
| Then I stumbled into a concept that has forever | | | | back to your affiliate sales page. |
| changed the way I think about how to make money | | | | So to summarize this article a great way to work |
| and work online. The way to do that without your own | | | | online and make money is to sell other people's stuff. |
| website is called affiliate marketing. In short being an | | | | This is called affiliate marketing. To do affiliate |
| affiliate for a company is just getting paid by them to | | | | marketing correctly you need your own website which |
| sell their stuff. | | | | you want to use to pre-sell the products you |
| What I have found is that you can do that but the | | | | represent. You also want to offer something of value |
| problem in affiliate marketing is that the company gives | | | | for free to your visitor in exchange for their name and |
| the same website to everyone else. The other thing is | | | | email address which you can then follow-up with more |
| the websites they give you are basically sales pages | | | | information containing benefits. |