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(iii) MEDIUM OF ADVERTISING YOUR SELECTED PRODUCTS. How and where you do your online affiliate marketing will play a very big role in whether you actually make money from this or not. There are free and paid methods of advertising products online. While it is true that it is easier making money by using the paid forms of advertising products than the free methods, there is no guarantee that it will always workout that way. It is a fact that I have sometimes made more money through free advertising some particular products than when I used paid options. Over time, I have come to realize that the difference is in commitment, selection of the correct media and experience. The more you practice online marketing tactics, the more you learn to make money correctly. Let me give you an example. A friend who knew that advertising on forums (do not say I did not leak this secret to you, please) is one of the most effective forms of making money through affiliate marketing somehow did a lot of this without making money from it. His enemies were supposedly at work now! As a good friend and a doctor of online business challenges, I duly x-rayed his work and discovered that his method had “heart problems” and so needed a corrective operation. This man was sort of virtually advertising sexy bras to a community of monks! Well, that was an over-kill. It was not so extreme. My friend was advertising not only in the wrong forum, but was also doing so in a blatant manner so much so that he must have left a good number of negative impressions on that forum. Advertising on a forum is good but should be done in a natural way after you must have been a member for sometime and members are used to having you around through your constructive contributions. Another really effective way of advertising free of charge is yes, article writing. However just like in the case of forums, you need to have quality articles written on related subjects and also know where to submit your articles to for maximum exposure. If you decide to submit a well-written article to a junk article site and expect to get good exposure like myself who wisely chose to submit mine to www.amazines.com, then you are worse off than the guy who was selling eye glasses to blind customers. (iv) NEED FOR A WEBSITE OR BLOG. If you really wish to do online business as a serious source of income and make good money with it, you will definitely need to have a blog or/and a website. In the event that you are presently not capable of having paid ones, you have the option of having your blog hosted by companies such as Blogger, Word Press, and so on. There a few free hosting websites online as well. However, I will advise that in the event you just have get a free blog, Word Press and Blogger are presently the best free hosts around for now. A blog is very important for making money online in the sense that it gives you a space to place your relevant articles which can have your affiliate links embedded in them through which you can directly send prospective buyers to your affiliate sites. It also gives you the opportunity to pre-sell products by presenting them directly in front of the customers in form of banners, photos of the products as well as a little description. This way, the customer knows exactly what to expect to see before going to the merchant’s site. This is what is known as pre-selling a product in affiliate marketing. A good blog is likely to be bookmarked by visitors and this turns them into repeat visitors and very serious prospective customers. Remember you are not even paying a dime for this kind of advertisement. You can make money online this way without have to spend money beforehand.
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