A Fresh View of Affiliate Marketing

One of the best things about Affiliate Marketing is you don't need your own product, or even your own website. You can promote someone elses site & leverage off all of the work that someone else has done, and make a commission out of it. And if you promote the right product, you can even make a monthly commission.

One of the biggest problems that we have all had with traditional Affiliate Marketing, is when our prospect sees the product we are promoting is through Clickbank or perhaps Amazon or one of many other affiliate programs, they sometimes use their own affiliate ID to complete the sale in an attempt to get the product at a cheaper price, and in the process stealing our affiliate commissions.

Now another form of Affiliate Marketing is when you refer someone to a product, and they in turn buy the product and you get the commission... But it doesn't stop there. The person you have sold to product to is given the opportunity to also become an affiliate, and then when they sell the product, not only does he get a commission, but you also get a commission from his sale. This is what is called 2-Tier Affiliate Marketing.

One of the benefits of 2-Tier Affiliate Marketing is a protential client can only purchase the product from someone who has bought it themselves.

Now how about we take that same concept, and add a few more tiers. This is where it gets interesting, but unfortunately most Internet Marketers don't do this, because you are now bordering on what is known as Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) or Network Marketing.

If you were to compare apples to apples, you would find that Affiliate Marketing and Network marketing are very similar in many ways? You still promote a product, and when you make the sale you get a commission. You then have a killer upsell to promote to your client. YOu are giving your client the opportunity to join your team and promote the products also, and when you client in turn sells a product or a MLM registration fee, you will get a commission on their sales also.

Now I know that over the years MLM has gotten a bad reputation, with some of the pushy tactics that some companies undertake. However, if you as an Internet Marketer promoted MLM as you would any other Affiliate program that would make you stand out in any MLM organisation.

Many Internet Marketers already have a list of faithful followers who trust them, and are prepared to take a chance on any recomendations they give. The other great thing is most MLM companies have more than just one product that you can promote to your list again and again.

And of course the biggest advantage that Internet Marketers have over the regular Network Marketer is we know how to use the internet. We already know many traffic techniques, we also know the benefits of Forum & Article Marketing. We know how to build a blog following, so getting clients to your new business should be a breeze.

So next time you hear of a MLM opportunity, don't simply write it off. Consider this to be another Affiliate Marketing opportunity.


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