Thursday 17 October 2013

Become Your Own Boss With Affiliate Marketing

By Stephen H. Jones


Most of us have a dream. We dream of financial freedom. We dream of one day packing in our jobs and being our own boss. We dream of working flexible hours and having a lot of money to go with it.
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The good news is financial freedom can be yours with Affiliate Marketing. You can start your own home business very easily and at very little cost. All you need is a computer and an internet connection. This article will attempt to shed some light on the ways in which Affiliate Marketing differs from a conventional home business, and how one might take advantage of the great opportunity afforded by this type of business to gain financial freedom.

This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

Having pointed out this important similarity between a conventional business and Affiliate Marketing, I would say probably the greatest difference between them is the fact that a conventional business requires much more time and involves greater financial risk than Affiliate Marketing. A conventional business, even a very small business, usually requires a significant amount of time and start-up money, often resulting in the business owner getting into debt by taking out a business loan to fund the business. With Affiliate Marketing the risk is reduced significantly because there is no need for start-up capital.

In addition, creating your own conventional business can be extremely difficult and, unless you have your own mind-blowing idea, you are likely to face a lot of competition from other established businesses. The advantage of Affiliate Marketing in this regard is that all this is, to a large extent, taken care of for you. You market existing products produced by someone else. There is no need to create strategies to beat the competition. All this is taken care of for you when you join an Affiliate Program. All you need to do is concentrate on increasing your earnings by selling more of the goods and/or services that you are signed up to promote.

Perhaps one of the most desirable aspects of Affiliate Marketing is the privilege of being able to work from the comfort of your own home. The benefits of working from home are numerous. Three obvious ones are, firstly, there is no need to worry about commuting to work daily and having the right work wear. Secondly, you can schedule your work around your other commitments and work when you want and finally, if you have young children, you can be there to attend to their needs, whilst you work.

Many other benefits of working from home exist, although it is important to point out that there are some down sides to working from home, even though these are far outweighed by the benefits. Firstly, a certain amount of self-discipline is required. As one might imagine, it would be quite easy to spend a disproportionate amount of time on domestic matters and neglect the business. Secondly, although a lot of us may not like going out to work, the external work environment does provide us with the opportunity to socialize and interact with others. Human interaction is healthy for our minds and working from home to some extent goes against this.

In conclusion, I would say if you dream of quitting your job and really want to work for yourself then you can do it. All it takes is time and a commitment to succeed. By taking advantage of available affiliate marketing starter programs, you can be up and running in no time and at




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