Affiliate marketing is very beneficial both for merchants and affiliate marketers. In fact affiliate marketing has become the top choice for anyone trying to earn money online, due to the fact it is so easy to do and you don't "have" to have your own website.
It is the cheapest business on the internet that can make you the highest profit.
Below you are going to find just a few of the benefits of becoming an affiliate marketer for both you and the merchant.
Reasons To Be An Affiliate Marketer
a. You Dont Need Your Own Product!
The main and most important reason people get involved in affiliate marketing is because they don't need there own products to sell and they can still make money. It is the merchants responsibility to create and distribute the product. You are responsible to find a product you would like to sell, get your affiliate link or links to advertise and start advertising your links. You can focus on selling the product as you don't need to do anything with the production or delivery of the products...
b. You Can Start Your Advertising For As Little As $50 Or Even Less
Another important feature of affiliate marketing is that you can start your business with little or no out of pocket expense. Due to this fact, starting in affiliate marketing is the lowest cost business to start up when starting an internet business. If you simply don't have any money to invest, you can always use free tools to start your business.
c. The Easiest Online Business
It is the easiest online business due to the fact that the merchants do all the hard work like making products, delivering products to consumers, handling money transactions etc. Affiliate marketers are not responsible for any of these tasks. They just need to focus on promoting their affiliate links.
d. Earn 24 Hours A Day
As an affiliate marketer you will be placing ads and your affiliate links on every website and web page that will allow you to do so, and because the internet never sleeps your links are working for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. People can visit your site whenever they want and can visit your affiliate links. If they like the product they can easily buy it by just by clicking the given links.
All you will need to do is to check your email account to see how many sales you have made while you were away from your computer.
e. Penetrate Hot Markets Fast
If you find that there is a new market that is selling products fast you can simply start advertising your affiliate links for the new products without having to wait. If you discover that other affiliate marketers are making a killing selling pet related products, then just register with an affiliate program to find some new pet products to promote, set up an adwords campaign, and in 10 minutes, you can start to make money!
Reasons To Be A Merchant
1) More Sales in Less Time
Because many affiliate marketer's will be promoting your products you will receive more sales. The main website page is also being promoted and advertised by the owner. If the page rank of the merchant website and his affiliate marketers are high, tons of traffic, which are your buyers, will visit the product pages. The link of every person you have promoting your affiliate program will bring people to your websites homepage. This results in more sales in less time.
2) Your Links On Loads Of Sites
By using affiliates you are simply expanding your targeted market. You can be picky when choosing affiliates. Do the research to check if the affiliates website is related to your business or not. To increase your chances of making sales, the affiliates website or blog should match what your product is about. The affiliates website will receive hits for the people who need to know about your products and they are more likely to visit your website to make a purchase.
3) Less Time Involved
You will have your affiliate doing the work of driving targeted traffic to your site. If you have good affiliates and they are doing what they are supposed to be doing then you don't have to waste time and money advertising yourself, unless you want to. Just concentrate on improving the quality of your products and launching new products.