The Internet Home Business Tip of the Week, Affiliate Programes, Who Really Benifits?
It seems that the number one Business for people who want to own an Internet Home Business is becoming an Affiliate for some one else. This means that your Internet Home Business does not really have anytime to sell, you are selling the products that some one else owns, you are basically a middle man. I have a great deal of problem with this, and here is why.
The hype about Affiliate Marketing is huge, it’s every where, the ads, the video’s, the web sites, they all say that if you want to own an Internet Home Business, the way to go is, Affiliate Marketing. One thing that you should always remember about the Internet, when ever a lot of people are saying the same thing, its almost always because they are making money from it. This is the case with Affiliate Marketing. There are a very very small number of people who are making huge piles of money, and the other 99.9% of the people are making nothing from it.
First of all, I just bought this site, about 3 months ago and I am in the process of changing it around. One of the first things I did, was remove most of the Affiliate Marketing programs from it. Most of the programs focused on first time people who wanted to own an Internet Home Business, these people are the most vulnerable and the ones who have the most to lose, if they think that Affiliate Marketing is the way to go, it is not. Here is one major reason that if you are just starting out with your first site, that you are going to lose big time with any Affiliate Marketing program.
Traffic. Traffic is the most elusive commodity on the Internet, if you do not have it, you simple do not exist. This is the one area that these so called Affiliate Programs do not tell you about when you sign up to their programs, where the heck is the traffic going to come from? It is one thing to say that you will make thousands of dollars, but that is only possible if people come to your site, no traffic, no sales.If you own an Internet Home Business and you want to get into Affiliate Marketing, you need to have a source of traffic to make the business work.
The value to the owners of the Affiliate Programs to have thousands of people sign up for their programs is that even if you, the owner of an Internet Home Business, decide to participate, it costs the owner nothing if you get no sales, he has nothing to lose, you have everything to lose. You spend your time, you set up the site, you do all the work, and then you hope some body comes to your site, clicks on to the Affiliate button, goes to the owner site, and buys the product. It’s a long process, all based on you getting a site up and running, and then getting the traffic to make it work.
Affiliate Marketing benefits the owners of the programs, first and foremost, after that, the decline in value drops to almost nothing for the rest of the participants. If you are thinking of owning an Internet Home Business, and you think that Affiliate Marketing is the way to go, ask yourself this question, where is the traffic going to come from, who is going to come to my site, to buy these products? Better yet, ask the Affiliate Marketer who is telling you all these wonderful things about his or her program, ask them where the traffic is going to come from .
Traffic drives the commerce on the Internet, the sites that have the traffic, have the commerce, it is as simple as that. When ever you are thinking of getting involved in an Internet Home Business of any kind, you have to know where the traffic is going to come from. That is the very first question you need to ask.
One last point and this is something that you can always rely on, who ever is telling you something on the Internet, if they are going to benefit in any way, financially, be wary of what they say. There are always lots of free unbiased sources on the Internet, where you can find the real goods on things you want to know. Have a great day, see you tomorrow.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas
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