Ted Sudol - Affiliate Marketing For Dummies

Affiliate Marketing For Dummies

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1. Chapter 15

1. Chapter 4
2. Chapter 6
3. Chapter 13
4. Chapter 14
5. Chapter 15
6. Chapter 16
7. Chapter 17

Today many people find the economics of living very stressful. Prices are rising, and wages are either flat or barely rising. It seems that almost everyone is looking for a way to earn extra money. But how do you do that try to squeeze a second or third job into your already harried life?

Affiliate marketing can be a solution for many people both young and old. Its a marketing system that allows an affiliate to earn a referral commission when an online visitor uses his affiliate ID to make an online purchase. It can be worked on either a full- or part-time basis. There is no big financial investment or risk as there would be with a traditional business. We hope the recipe for extra income in Affiliate Marketing For Dummies provides some relief.

While affiliate marketing is a solid opportunity that has allowed thousands to profit (some spectacularly), it is not a get-rich-quick scheme. This book is an antidote to the thousands of internet hucksters who promise you will earn a fortune by next Tuesday. Affiliate Marketing For Dummies is a solid road map that can help you find your way to internet profit, and it has been an honor for us to write.

Affiliate marketing is an exciting way to make extra income on either a full-time or part-time basis. You can avoid many of the hurdles of starting a regular business, like a large investment, large losses, and a multiyear time frame to get established.

This book is designed to give you a realistic plan to earn extra income. Its intended as a realistic antidote to all of those online ads (which, of course, never work) claiming you can make millions from the comfort of your home by next week without doing any work. We guide you by not only telling you about good free or low-cost tools you should try, but also telling you about the pitfalls (that trap many new affiliate marketers) to avoid.

This book is meant to be used as a reference tool. Feel free to read the chapters in whatever order you choose. You may want to focus your reading on chapters with topics you are not familiar with and go lighter on chapters whose topics you already have a good grasp on. However, if you are a beginner, it probably would make more sense to build your business from the beginning.

As you dip into and out of this book, feel free to skip the sidebars (shaded boxes) and the paragraphs marked with the Technical Stuff icon. They contain interesting information but arent essential to becoming an affiliate marketer.

You may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this work as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

Weve made some assumptions about you, dear reader:

• You already have a blog, a website, or a social media following and you want to make money from what youre already doing.
• Youre looking for a way to make money that can be worked on either a part-time or full-time basis.
• You have expertise in a topic from your past experiences and would like to make money from it.
• Youre passionate about a topic and would like to make money from it.
• You have an interest in a topic that you would like to investigate and want to make money from your investigation at the same time.

For Dummies books use small pictures, called icons, to mark certain paragraphs. Heres what they actually mean:

This icon flags some advice that may shorten your work time, give your affiliate marketing business a boost, or facilitate a solution to a problem.

A particular bit of advice that we want you to remember is marked with this icon because you may have to use it over and over again during your affiliate marketing career.