This site is all about making money. One of the crazes these days is making money through the use of the internet. More now than ever, people are making an amazing living off simple affiliate marketing.

Even I HAVE MADE SOME MONEY DOING THIS, and I am as skeptical of these type of money making schemes as can be.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

The basic idea of this scheme is to find leads on behalf of other companies. In return, these companies will pay you some form of compensation, whether it be commission based or a flat fee.

Leads can be as simple as someone entering their email address, paying for shipping and handling, or actually buying a product. Obviously, the more work that needs to be done by the lead, then the more money you, the affiliate marketer, will make.

Thats Great, but How Do I Get Started?

Join Affiliate Network

The great thing about affiliate marketing is that it is absolutely free to to get started. To begin, all you have to do is join an affiliate network. Those are companies that find the campaigns that you can put to work. The one I am part of is Market Leverage (yes this is a referral link, but its free for you so who cares); however, there are tons of others that you can join, but this is the only one I have ACTUALLY made money from.

Find a Campaign

Once you have joined a network, we obviously want to find a campaign. You have probably seen many of these already in action around the web. I always wondered who would actually fill this stuff out, but, according to my stats, there are.

I like to find the campaigns where the leads have to do the least. Although you get less compensation for those, I like to bet on the bulk. Other people might like to choose other types. It really depends on what you think you can get to work. That is what I like about affiliate marketing. There are infinite ways to be successful at this.

Bring in Leads

Obviously we can’t make money until we have a lead, but how do we find them? Some like to create an email list and work that way, while others like to create landing pages. Those are pages that are set-up to entice the lead to fill out the form or whatever it is they need to do, and they are very simple to create.

What has worked for me are landing pages. You can see one of mine over at SportSayers.com. The initial poll is just a cover for the actual lead. By simply clicking on yes or no to the question, the lead will be able to get free online poker passes. It doesn’t matter whether they click yes or no because it links to the actual affiliate page where they must simply fill in their email addresses. Most people will usually just put in their junk email address, but a lead is a lead so who cares.

There are numerous ways to get people to come to this landing page. One of the most used is Google Adwords. I really don’t like the need to have to spend money to make it, but I decided to go ahead and give this a try. I set-up $50 dollars in my account and created an ad campaign. Almost instantly after I click submit, I got my first lead. I’m not going to lie. I was amazed.

None of these money make scheme stuffs actually worked so easily for me; however, now I am hooked and finding more ways to increase the revenue.

Let It Run Free

Once you have created all your campaigns, affiliate marketing can truly be considered as passive income. Sure you could make more money with more work, but that is entirely up to you. Many of the top services you may use now run on affiliate marketing. It really opens your eyes to world of making money online and the internet.

Do you have any success with affiliate marketing? Feel free to leave a comment or contact me if you need help getting started. It really isn’t that hard.

Remember to get started over at Market Leverage.

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