Affiliate Marketing Question: is Affiliate Marketing Model a Legitimate Internet Business?

One of the things that you will need to be aware is that the internet business is a real business which will requires you to put in the time, effort and money to grow the business.  If you are looking for a model that will enables you to get rich quickly, I will have to tell you that this model is not for you.

Before I explain to you the simple system which you can use, you must always be aware of the Time vs Money rule. If you are not going to have a lot of money to invest into your business, you will have to invest your time into the business. It will still be possible to start a profitable online business but it will takes more time if you are on budget.

Here is the simple system which will only requires you to invest US$50 monthly to build your own business. You will have to do some steps first before you even start to build your website. Please do follow the system below:

1) Find a profitable market that you want to base your business in

This is important as you will want to decide on the market that you want to base your business in. You will want to be in a market where people are willing to spend money.


2) Find a profitable affiliate product

If you are just starting out and you do not have your own product, you can start to promote other people's product first. You will earn a certain percentage of the sales whenever a customer purchased through your affiliate link.


3) Build your own website which will be a squeeze page.

This is the step where you will be spending the US$50. Below are average cost and the tools that you need.

-> Domain name: This will cost you around US$10 yearly

-> Hosting account: This will cost you around US$10 monthly

-> Autoresponder Account: This will cost you around US$20 monthly

This will enable you to build your own website and you can also start to build your own list of subscribers. Building your own list is very important as it will ensure that you will be able to follow up with your customers if they do not purchase the product when they see it for the first time.


4) Start writing and submitting articles daily

Once you have your website, the next thing that you will have to do is to let people know your website so that you can promote the product to them. You will want to write articles that are related to the market that you have chosen. You will submit the articles to the top article directories which will drive you traffic. This method is call article marketing.

One of the thing that you need to know is that the traffic from article marketing will be gradual in nature. You will have to write and submit articles consistently so that you will get a constant flow of traffic coming to your website. As you are on a budget, you will have to invest your time to get the traffic to your website.


5) Add more email message to your autoresponder to promote 2nd or more product.

You will want to promote the 2nd or more products to your subscribers who have already join your list. This will ensure that you will be able to leverage on your list and earn more from them. This will be the main reason why you put putting in effort to build a list and build a good relationship with them.


This is the simple method which you can use. But you must know that as this is a real business, you will have to be patience and give it some time to grow.