Make Money With Affiliate Programs | Make Money Online

When I started down my quest to make money in network marketing, I found out that it’s not as easy as my upline wanted me to believe. Sure… I made some money but it never really got to that point where I could justify putting more time into it.

You see… it always seemed to be harder to find the clients, get the downline, and keep the motivation than it was “supposed to be”. The hours pretty much sucked too!

I figured there had to be a better way so I started looking around. I found that there was a better way. It was through ONLINE MARKETING. I found guys like Mike Dillard, Jonathan Budd, Norbit and Brian and other online MLM gurus. These guys had a catch to teach you how to get into MLM and grow your downline by markting online.

I tried it and… you know… it worked a bit. The challenge I ran into is that you could only go so far with it but then you had to get back on the phone and “close the deal”. That meant crappy hours, being a slave to the business under the false thought process that it was “My Business”. I was a slave again… to someone elses business and I still made more money in my JOB.

You know what else I learned? I learned that these GURUS made more money selling their system and other affiliate products than they ever made in their MLM business.

So what was the logical conclusion? Get In To Affiliate Marketing! That’s where the real money and time freedom is.

Once I got going in affiliate marketing I was able to start driving traffic to websites, build lists, and sell products that made me money wether I picked up the phone or not, went to a meeting or not (not that there are biz op meeting for affiliate marketing… I’m just stressing a point), or recruited anyone or not. This is truly my own business. It’s like owning a convenience store except I don’t have the overhead, payroll, inventory, or physical store to build out. I just spend a bit of time in market research, site creation, and link building and I’m on auto-pilot.

Please don’t misunderstand me… it IS a lot of work! There’s a learning curve and you have to train and study to get good at it. You have to fail a bit too… but it’s so much more rewarding than MLM ever was.

Below are some tools that I use. Some are free and some are paid but they all have an intrinsic value to building your affiliate marketing business.

One of the most important tools, in my affiliate marketing business is a subscription to the Internet Marketing Advantage. With it I get world class training, new tips and direction the markets are taking, businesses in a box and some of the other tools you’ll see recommended in this list. These tools will cost you money, unless you are a member of the IMA.

Google’s keyword tool – it’s a freebie but it’s a good tool to use to gather keywords and to check some of the research you’ve already done.