Turning Your Affiliations into a Lucrative Internet Home Business

A Home Business Article Contributed by Elizabeth Fox-Wise

Many Internet Users Have Taken Affiliates with Online Merchants, Can This be a Home Business?

Have you collected Internet Affiliates with online merchants and now are wondering if you can use these to build a home business?

Many online merchants have discovered the advantages of affiliate marketing and have tapped into a resource of "eager salespeople" willing to sell their products for them in exchange for a percentage of the revenues generated from their sales efforts. For the merchant, this is risk free and cost free advertising. The only expense to them is AFTER the sale is made, making it one of the most lucrative advertising methods for Internet businesses.

For many affiliates this has meant they get a few dollars back on their own purchases and those purchases made by friends or family members who they sent to the merchant's site under their affiliate link. For other affiliates this has meant a few strategically placed banners on their home business Internet site has helped to increase their income by adding additional revenues to whatever else their home business is selling.

However, another group of affiliates have looked at the opportunity and turned affiliations, the reselling of other merchant'smerchandise, into a lucrative Internet Home Business.

There are Several Things You Can do to Increase Your Income from Your Internet Affiliate Home Business

Join and participate in chat rooms related to the industry of the products you are reselling in your Internet home business. Talk to people in the chat room without trying to actively sell. Gather information on the industry for future use and mention products that you are reselling whenever you can comfortably work them into a chat.

Start your own Affiliate Program directory. Affiliate programs are available at the majority of major online retailer sites. Join Several of them. List all of your affiliates in a directory on your web site and then advertise your free directory!

Use a Personal Endorsement (testimonial) whenever you get the chance! Of course you can only do this for products you own or have used, but odds are good many of your affiliates carry products that you can personally endorse. Tell potential customers how you felt/feel about the product.

Other Ways to Turn Your Internet Affiliates Money into a Home Business Income

Promote your Internet Affiliate Home Business in the signature line of all emails that you send. Use an attention grabbing headline and a good reason for them to go to your affiliate site. A good thing to use in your affiliate signature would be current promotions being offered such as Free Shipping or a Gift with purchase. Change the featured affiliate, and offer, often. Then make sure you get the chance to send lots of SOLICITED email (not spam) by getting subscribers to opt into a newsletter.

Participate in web forum boards. Post your comments, answer people's questions if you can, and ask your own questions. Include your affiliate text link under every message you post. But be sure to check forum rules to make sure that "self promotion" is allowed.

As will all Internet Home Business, the hardest part is getting started. The more you do on the Internet, the more footprints you will leave and the easier you will to be found.