Thursday, April 3, 2008

How To Start Your Own Affiliate Network And Laugh All The Way To The Bank

By Fabian Tan
Today, anyone can create a website that will bring together consumers and businesses. Typically, you can register a domain and web hosting service for well under 100.00 a year. This space can easily be used to create an affiliate marketing network.

In order to start an affiliate network, you will need to decide what products you want to focus on. If you are interested in computer hardware, the worst thing you can do is try to include services or information about unrelated items. That said, once you have launched one affiliate marketing network, it is fairly easy to go ahead and repeat the process for new ones.

When starting an affiliate marketing network, it is also important to find reliable vendors and associates. Unfortunately, sometimes no matter how hard you work to screen applicants, you will accept members that do not benefit the network. Therefore, you will also need to have a written policy in place to deal with these situations. Ideally, this will be distributed to each member after they apply to your program.

Once you have an established base for your business associates, it is time to consider how your affiliate managers will find for customers. Among other things, you may want to prepare written materials, or even training guides to help affiliates get started. You may also want to start your own social network, or other type of forum. In these instances, your affiliate marketers can be on hand to manage the forum, as well as promote the products from your business associates.

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