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You have probably heard about affiliate programs. You promote somebody else’s product and get a commission when a visitor you refer buys the product. Many people quickly sign up for these programs, place the affiliate link on their website expecting sales to roll in like an avalanche, but are soon disappointed. Being a successful affiliate requires discipline, creativity and strategy. One can write a book about how to be a successful affiliate, but in this article I will focus on a strategy that can make you a top selling affiliate even if you don’t have a website.What affiliate program you should choose? Well, it’s up to you, there are many to choose from. I recommend using Clickbank, since they have over 10,000 digital products and rank their products based on number of affiliate sales each product is generating. I suggest selecting a product that gives you at least $20 commission on a sale. Products with lower commissions are simply not worth promoting, because promotion is going to cost you money. The main advantage of an affiliate program is that you don’t have to develop your own product to sell. The product is there; your efforts must be focused on promoting it. One of the best ways of promoting a product, when you don’t have a high traffic website, is using Pay Per Click advertising. Pay per click advertising is the hottest new marketing medium. Pioneered by Overture, PPC advertising is offered by major search engines including Google. PPC method allows an advertiser to bid on specific keywords and when a search engine user is searching for that particular keyword, the advertiser’s add appears in the search results. You get charged only when that user click on the ad. For example, an advertiser may bid on the word “camera”. When a user searches for the word “camera”, the advertiser’s ad would appear in the search results. The rank of the ad in the search results depends on
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