Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Help me start up Affiliate Marketing please?

If you are keen to join the Affiliate Marketing program and want to learn the ropes to be a marketer, I would like to invite you to try out Ewen Chia’s Newbie Cash Machine.
The Newbie Cash Machine is a jam-packed eBook that reveals all the critical Information and Tips to get your internet business up and running in a quick time. Key highlights are:


- provides the framework to building internet businesses and making online profits
- why others fail and how you can succeed
- how to find good and hot products in the market
- why you must select a balanced mix of products to promote
- tips and tools to get traffic to your website
- how to market yourself without spending a bomb
- build relationship with your potential customers
- the right approach to create the domain name for your website
- and much much more ... ...



The Newbie Cash Machine offers step-by-step guidance to set up your own online business, with particular emphasis on affiliate marketing as the basis to making income from internet business. It is written in simple to understand terms and language, and comes along with practical examples and screenshots to guide you exactly what to do (this is extremely useful!!)

The Newbie Cash Machine is a proprietary product developed by Ewen Chia. Ewen is an early internet business pioneer who has been marketing on the internet since 1997, and is well known for earning huge income from his internet businesses. He is also a much sought after International Speaker, often sharing with audience his internet business knowledge and experience.

For someone like me who first started out affiliate marketing without knowing much about how to join the affiliate marketing program, how to search for hot products, how to setup my website, getting traffic and so on, I found this product to be extremely informative and helpful and I have definitely benefited much from this eBook.

If you are keen to find out more about this product, including my personal review of what’s so good and what’s not, check this out at www.savvyconnection.org/newbiecashmachine/intro.html .

Why Affiliate Marketing creates the big wave

Today, the internet has grown to become a powerful giant. You practically can do lots of things in the web, be it researching for free information and resources, making friends through social networking, doing online businesses etc. The list of products and services in the internet are limitless. Whatever you search on, there is bound to have a product or service that might serve your needs. The business opportunities are abundant.

Many people recognized the potential of making money online years ago. Dot.com companies were formed. Some succeeded while some failed. Till date, there are many countless online businesses you can find in the web. Some of them are doing exceptionally well.

There are many business models if you do a quick research on it and you could simply just find one that suits your preference and style. Today, I would like to give a brief introduction on Affiliate Marketing and why it is creating the big wave right now.

In this Affiliate Marketing business model, a person who joins affiliate marketing program as an affiliate marketer plays the role of a ‘middle man’ to promote and sell products (or services) to potential customers. The affiliate marketer does not need to create his own products. Instead, he researches on good products created by other people/companies in the internet, provides objective information and evaluation of the product, recommends the product and closes the sales. What affiliate marketers earn is the commission from the sales made through him. Sounds simple? It really is. The initial startup may take a while, but once you are familiar, it’s easier as you go along.

Why Affiliate Marketing is so popular now is because it is an easier and a more secured business model that anyone, yes anyone, can embrace and work on. Here’s why:

- requires low cost investment, probably just a few tens or hundred dollars to start with, depending on your budget
- a huge market of products and services for you to find
- there are tools to help you search for the right products and services to promote
- it’s easy to switch product if the current one doesn’t seem to sell that well
- monitor your online business at home while you keep your stable full-time job
- provides supplementary income to live the lifestyle you have always desired
- and more…


If you wish to embark on Affiliate Marketing, now is the right time. To ensure high rate of success, you need advice and tools. There are plenty of resources in the web but really, whose advice and recommendations should you trust?

I had bought a product that helped me get started on Affiliate Marketing. It is a very comprehensive, step-by-step program. I tried and it works. You should check out on this product now at www.savvyconnection.org/newbiecashmachine/intro.html .

Is Affiliate Marketing suitable for you?

What is ‘Affiliate Marketing’? In this business model, a person who joins affiliate marketing program as an affiliate marketer is like a ‘middle man’ selling products (or services) to potential customers. The affiliate marketer does not need to create his own products. Instead, he researches on good products created by other people/companies in the internet, provides objective information and evaluation of the product, recommends the product and closes the sales. What affiliate marketers earn is the commission from the sales made through him. Simple?

Affiliate Marketing is currently a popular business model in the market today. Not to worry, the pie is big enough for everyone. Here’s a quick summary why Affiliate Marketing is a wonderful business model and may be suitable for you:


- requires low cost investment, probably just a few tens or hundred dollars to start with, depending on your budget
- a huge market of products and services for you to find
- there are tools to help you search for the right products and services to promote
- it’s easy to switch product if the current one doesn’t seem to sell that well
- monitor your online business at home while you keep your stable full-time job
- provides supplementary income to live the lifestyle you have always desired
- and more…

So who will be suitable to start on Affiliate Marketing? Go through the list below and see if you have many ticks against each of the points:
- you are working and still keen to earn additional / side income
- you are looking for (alternative) job
- you are not working (eg. retirees, housewife, student) and you would like to look for activities to spend your time more meaningfully and/or earn some extra income
- you want to be an entrepreneur and not reporting to anyone/boss
- you want to work from home
- you want to do business but don’t know what to do, how to start, nor have any idea
- you want to start business but scared of failure
- you are afraid to lose your hard-earned investment on a failed business
- you can’t afford huge capital investment for a startup
- you prefer to try out your business instincts by working on some business model that does not require huge startup cost


The checklist above is merely a simple way for you to realize your own preference, how much risk you are willing to handle and if the Affiliate Marketing model is suitable for you. Do not rule out this model at this moment. Go ahead to do your own research and gather more information about Affiliate Marketing. It might just be the right business model for you.

Attributes of an Online / Internet business over a traditional business setup

If you are thinking of starting a business and are looking for business ideas, allow me to briefly introduce the different setup of business, particularly online (internet) and traditional business.

The traditional business setup is very common since way back. What do I mean by 'traditional’? My own definition of ‘traditional’ business has the following traits:

- high capital investment/setup cost
- need to source for a good/strategic location, do up the renovation and pay rental/leasing cost
- keep inventory/stock, if you are selling goods
- hire employees to carry out the work, unless you are on a one-man show
- invest huge amount of advertising/marketing cost, but not knowing what the outcome will be
- full-time job that demands almost 100% of your waking time to run the business, yet you do not know if your business will succeed or fail.
- due to high initial capital investment, business may take a couple of years before it breakeven. There is no guarantee of success even after the breakeven mark is reached.

But an online/internet business can be vastly different. It is a setup that:

- normally does not require a physical office, hence no need to incur rental/leasing cost. This means there will be a huge savings, as you can work from home.
- the setup cost can be as low as only a few tens of dollars.
- depending on the nature of your business, most of the online/internet business do not require you to keep inventory/stock of any kind at all. For example, affiliate marketing.
- as it’s a simple setup, you can do a one-man show and own 100% of the profits earned. There is no need to pay salaries for hiring helpers. Nor is there a need for partnership.
- the advertising cost incurred for internet publicity is much lower than traditional advertising media such as television commercials, newspaper, magazines.
- you can do the online/internet business as a freelance or a side job. There is no need to quit your current full-time job. This offers you security and continual income until your online/internet business is stable and churn out good profits.
- In case you run out of business ideas, you can find ideas easily in the internet; it’s full of opportunities, information and resources and most of these are free.
- you can monitor your internet business performance online and take immediate actions to switch from low profit-making products/services to other business ideas very quickly if you wish to, hence minimizing your loss before it burns a big hole in your pocket.

I hope the brief information offered above is useful to help you decide whether to go for a traditional business setup or an online/internet business. The internet world is full of business opportunities. There are free resources for you to read. Do your research carefully and read up for more information.