If you are in the position that you really want to, or need to earn serious money on the internet and you have decided to start an online business, which direction are you going to take? Now you may think “what direction, what do you mean?” I mean your target market, your marketing style, your technical involvement, your time constraints, your resources, your assets. There are many factors to consider, before launching into the world of online marketing.

Most sensible people start with affiliate marketing and then grow into other more personal types of marketing. This is particularly applicable to newbies, who are intimidated at the prospect of building a website, optimizing it, using code, installing payment links and a whole heap of other technical stuff. Affiliate marketing is far easier and quicker as the resources you need, are normally given to you when you start.

Don’t think for one moment that this is a “Mickey Mouse” business idea. This can be very, very lucrative. Some affiliate marketers are earning regular paychecks, so huge that you can only dream of what it is like.

Have you ever heard of Rosalind Gardner? If not, she is a super affiliate and earns one of the biggest incomes in the internet marketing field.

In her book, which is constantly updated, she teaches things you never thought of. She tells it like it is. She sets the record straight, about opportunities in the Affiliate Marketing Industry. She gets angry every time she hears someone say that there’s no money to be made as an affiliate marketer.

According to one report, total sales generated through affiliate networks in 2006, was £2.16 billion in the UK alone. MarketingSherpa’s research team estimated that, in 2006, affiliates worldwide earned $6.5 billion in bounty and commissions from a variety of sources in retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, education, publishing and forms of lead generation, other than contextual ad networks, such as Google AdSense. At the time, they hadn’t yet concluded all the results for 2007, but it is estimated to have grown by around 30%.

Those who try to tell you that affiliates can’t make a living online, either haven’t tried affiliate marketing, or haven’t followed the right business plan, or are so greedy, that they don’t want you to share in the wealth.

Read this amazing, true story, of how this woman, with no previous business experience, earned $436,797+ in her first year, back in 2002 and now earns much more than that … just by selling other people’s stuff online!

In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the internet.

Frequently revised and updated to reflect industry changes, the “Super Affiliate Handbook” now consists of 236 pages and 124 screenshots, that will show you step-by-step, how to also become a Super Affiliate.

You’ll learn how to pick the best affiliate programs, negotiate a commission, raise and save time, money and effort on everything from affiliate software to web hosting.

The truth is, an entire industry has grown around online affiliate marketing, since the mid-1990’s and it is getting bigger all the time.

Conventions are regularly held and attended by thousands of people and there’s even an offline magazine, devoted entirely to the subject of affiliate marketing.

Entire affiliate networks such as Commission Junction, Clickbank, Linkshare, PayDotCom and Double Click Performics exist for the sole purpose of bringing merchants and affiliates together.

There are tens of thousands of merchants with affiliate programs. So, What exactly is Affiliate Marketing? In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is an arrangement between an online merchant and affiliate (you), in which the affiliate earns a commission for generating sales, leads and/or clicks for the merchant’s web site.

For example, many credit card companies will pay you between $5 and $20 in commission, for each visitor that you send to their site, who completes a credit card application, and up to $55 for those, whose applications are approved.

That’s a great commission, and although many companies pay less, there are also many companies that pay much more!

Here’s another example. If you promote the Elite TR6633 Treadmill, which sells for $6,495.00 as an affiliate of MegaFitness, they will pay you a 10% commission… or $649.50!

“Fantastic!”, you say. You’re absolutely right!

Since Rosalind quit her day job, as an air traffic controller in 2000, she’s earned 100% of her income online. In 2002, she earned a whopping $436,797 US, in affiliate commissions (then worth $657,801 CDN). Now, in 2008 she earns much more than that, just as an affiliate!

How much you will earn, depends in part on the products you choose to sell, and in the Super Affiliate Handbook, she shows you exactly how to find the best companies and products to promote.

Get it from the horse’s mouth and put some of that huge bounty in your pocket. See here for more:
http://www.dersalsites.com/superaff/

Derek Robson is a South African Internet marketer, with a vision of empowering all fellow South Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For daily postings and articles, on Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, visit Derek at: http://dersalsites.com/southafricanbusiness/  

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