Jodi Reichenberger

Many big businesses have major affiliate programs. You can go to their massive shopping site and order any one of a zillion items. If you click there from one of their affiliates sites, the affiliate gets a percentage of the purchase price. See this article for more information on affiliates.

This gives affiliates a way to tap into the millions of dollars many of these big companies earn each and every day. And with all those thousands of low-priced, high-demand products on display, it shouldn't be hard to start making sales. Right?

Well, it's not that easy. It's not been my experience. Big shopping web sites like www.bestbuy.com and www.officemax.com have been offering handsome affiliate programs for years, but they are hard to make money with.

Wonder why?

Probably the largest problem is targeting the people you send to their sites. Have you ever clicked on a link that seemed to promice all the information you were looking for only to find that you'd been sent to never never land? Send just anyone to the parent site's opening page and it's improbable that particular person will find anything they REALLY want to buy.

Let's turn this problem around.

Soon you can be tapping into the budgets and value of big corporate sites to earn the affiliate cash they are truly capable of giving you.....and they are !!

If YOU are going to direct people to a site....direct them to where it is they want to go. People get lost in these big sites. The chance a person will stumble over just what they want is pretty remote.

You can greatly increase your odds by creating your own web page that features a few specific products. Declan Dunn said it best. He says to "sell one thing, and sell it well." Your page can link directly to the pages featuring those products. This works for affiliate systems that track your customer no matter what page they click to. Some let you link directly to specific products. Others only send people to their opening page. For those, you can list recommended products on your site so the customer knows what to look for when she gets to the parent site.

The products you choose to feature should fall into a particular category: commonly needed supplies for small office printers, skateboard trucks for skaters with a certain brand in mind, a particular style of hard-to-find spice.

Start by creating your own web page. I cannot emphasize this enough. And did I mention, create your own web page? Make your site at least three pages--an opening page with a few products, a page that tells about you, and a page with a few helpful tips. All these can help draw and interest the targeted group of people who will buy from your affiliate program.

This isn't hard to do, even if you are all thumbs with computers. Create your own free page in seconds at http://www.webspawner.com Type in the title of your page, provide a few links, and you're up and ready to go.

You can make a much more complete and attractive page with a WYSIWYG (stands for what you see is what you get) program at http://JDAPublishing.com/aweber/ here you can get even more fancy schmancy! You can even buy your own domain name there and all!

The web addresses that free and low-cost hosts give you can be long and confusing. Here is a list of addresses that will give you free short addresses that forwards people to your longer free site address. Instead of http://www.replicate99.com/avery/263.shtml .... you can use an easier address like http://go.to/avery .

http://www.v3.com

http://beam.to/index.asp

http://iscool.net

Use these same principles for ads you place and the signature file in your email messages (a 4 to 6 line ad that appears after your name.)

You can send people directly to a certain product page using a short address that "refers" to the longer address.

Also look into affiliate networks that give you an easy way to link to your choice of hundreds of big programs. http://befree.com and http://linkshare.com/affiliates/ feature a great many big corporate programs from the likes of Dell Computer, Priceline, AT&T, and 1-800-Flowers.

The days of sitting on the sidelines while only rich investors profit from America's great corporations are over. By smartly using corporate affiliate programs, you can tap into the flow of cash. Pull in checks ranging from pocket change to thousands each month.

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