Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Welcome To Anntum's Affiliate Center

Here I have compiled a variety of online sources to help you make money online without spending an arm and a leg. Most of them are free opportunities and some resources that will help you with your business online, like autoresponders, splash pages, affiliate programs, home based businesses, and etc.

Feel free to browse around and see what you will find to help you with your online business ventures.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Why You Should Consider Affiliate Sites for Making Money Online

There are a number of reasons why you should consider affiliate sites for making money online. The Internet provides a new and quite different distribution channel for vendors to sell their products and services to consumers. Consumers can learn about, view pictures of, and order products from anywhere at anytime from the comfort of their home or office. These businesses are willing to give you a predetermined percentage of the amount of the products bought through your website.

As the popularity of affiliate programs has grown they have arisen to provide centralized locations where individuals can pick and join affiliate programs. These services also monitor the vendors and keep them honest. They provide standardized software and interfaces to run the affiliate programs so that each new vendor does not have to re-invent the wheel when they start up an affiliate program.

As a individual, you can go to one of these sites and pick out the programs you want to join. You fill out a form providing information about yourself and your Website and then you download the "banner code" to place on your site. When someone clicks on the banner from your site and buys something from the vendor, the sale is tracked and they pay you a small commission. Most provide online reporting so that you can see your how your sales are going at any time.

While these affiliate services help to promote affiliate programs for the vendors, and provide some efficiency for the individuals, vendors are still looking for better ways to promote their affiliates' programs and individuals are looking for more profitable arrangements.

Here are some good reasons to join an affiliate program:

1) They already have the products to be promoted.

2) You refer the customers to the business and get commissions on those purchases that customers make.

3) You can earn and sell as much as you want.

4) You can receive tax benefits at the end of the year no matter how much you make commissions.

5) You can have an experienced sponsor that has experience in the business help you when your first getting started.

6) Some businesses will give you your own website to promote with the products included.

7) Most of the businesses will ship the products to the customer and do the customer service for you.

Here is one affiliate program that you can join for free and have help with marketing your online business.