Wednesday, January 23, 2008

By James C. Tanner

Watch How A Simple Turnkey System Prints Profits For You Around The Clock!

Suppose you found yourself arriving at work one day to discover your company has been downsized and you as well as all of your co-workers are now out of a job? What would you do? Now remember, as soon as you try to run out and get another job, you’re immediately competing against your former co-workers and good friends, so what would you do?

It’s for this reason many people think ahead to develop multiple streams of income in case anything ever happens to one particular source of income. One of the easiest, and most profitable sources of income has over time, proven itself to be, affiliate marketing.

When some people hear the term affiliate marketing, they often confuse it with multi-level marketing schemes, or other forms of businesses. While the term affiliate can be used in business as a general term. Affiliate marketing refers to a specific style of business, and while there are many, here are five very solid reasons why people love affiliate marketing.

Unlike many people involved in other businesses, such as multi-level businesses, affiliate marketers have no inventory to carry. Even if you run your affiliate marketing business out of a small bedroom closet, you never have to physically touch or handle any items you sell. The merchant handles this directly for the affiliate marketer.

Affiliate marketers make money while they sleep. With a business that is automated and internet based, you never have to close your doors. Your money making business machine keeps printing profits 24 hours a day 7 days a week, even while you’re on holidays.

The internet provides affiliate marketers with a client base that’s global. A client base that’s not effected by regional politics, economics, time zones, etc. It is the largest client list anywhere. You can drive more visitors to your site in a day, than many small town merchants see in their store in a year.

Affiliate marketers experience next to no risk. There is an endless supply of products and services to provide. If one doesn’t produce, the product or service can easily be removed, and replaced. An affiliate marketer is not bound by contracts to carry or advertise products for endless periods of time.

Finally, affiliate marketers with their ability to pick and choose products and services also have the ability to pick items that offer high commissions. Commissions as high as 75 percent are not uncommon. There is a learning curve in knowing how to identify products and services which are selling, but this can be learned very quickly with the right system in place for guidance. The rest becomes a numbers game. Drive the right number of people to your merchants pre-tested advertising and sales will result. Affiliate marketing has a very high income potential. As people grow in the industry many will begin to duplicate their efforts running multiple web pages or blogs. The income snowballs.

In today’s tough world, people are losing jobs every day. Many people do not have the financial ability to survive longer than 30 days. People with home computers and an internet connection could be up and running as affiliate marketers, and making another source of income for an initial outlay that would not run over one hundred dollars. Those funds would put into their hands a business program or blue print which would guide a person step by step through the process to be able to get their business up and running quickly and correctly.

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© 2008 James C. Tanner. All Rights Reserved.

James C. Tanner of http://www.silent-wonder.com retired entrepreneur, business trainer, investigator, and writer whose articles and written comments are enjoyed by 12.5 million readers monthly. Helping people find and create profitable home based internet businesses.