Why Affiliate Programs Are The Best Training Ground For Internet Marketing NewbiPosted by Nick Niesen on October 28th, 2010 Making money online can be a long and complicated process. It?s one thing to promote your own products, but when you?re just starting out and want to make some money, where do you start? The answer: affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are easy to implement and simple to understand. ?No products necessary Planting seeds Think of affiliate programs as the planting seeds. Besides from the fact that you can make some money while promoting affiliate programs, you?re building a list (customer base) that can make you money again and again in the future. What you?re doing is really building relationships with your list. You can do this by sending follow-up emails, newsletters, etc. Once your ?seeds? are ?planted?, you can promote other affiliate products, or even your own to your list! ? naturally, the bigger the list, the better. Keep nurturing your list and it?ll pay big dividends for you. Understand the importance of building a list. If there?s one thing that you get out of this article, it is this: you must build a list. How can you promote anything if you have a zero customer base? If you?re going make mistakes, might as well make them here. Just because affiliate programs are easy to implement and the fastest way to make money, doesn?t mean you?re not going make mistakes along the way. You WILL make mistakes. John Reese made mistakes. Babe Ruth made plenty of them. Every successful person makes mistakes. But since this will be your training ground, you might as well you?re your mistakes here. But more importantly, learn from them. The mistakes you make promoting affiliate programs will prepare you to bigger things ? like creating and promoting your own products becoming a master marketer. Building assets Looking at the big picture, you?re learning valuable skills to build ASSETS. Use the skills you learn to continuously create multiple sources of income. Next article we?ll talk more about this. You can start making money today if you followed these steps. Let the idea of building a list sink in your mind. It can produce both instant gratification and a perpetual cash machine if you set it up right. Profitably Yours, Alex Nguyen Like it? Share it!More by this author |