From The Desk Of: Ben Woods
Affiliate marketing is helping tens of thousands of computer and internet novices make from hundreds to thousands of dollars a day. While the concept is very simple, today with so many websites offering affiliate marketing systems to make money, I want to shed some light on what is and what is not possible: As someone who has been around the world of affiliate marketing for close to 6 years now, I know what it takes to make money online. I started my affiliate business when I was 35, and now at 41, I am a self-made millionaire. I know what it is that makes a good affiliate program.
First, it is NOT possible to make money without doing anything. While the right system will give you the right steps, you actually have to follow them.
Second, it is NOT a "get-rich-quick-system". The idea is that you start earning and then improve your promotions and make more and more.
Third, it is NOT for everyone. If you do not have at least 1-2 hours a week to follow a system, then it probably is not for you at this time.
Fourth, if you follow the WRONG affiliate marketing system, you probably will lose money. It takes a lot of time and money to test and figure out which one will work.
To help you out, along with a few newer marketers, we worked to evaluate the top-three affiliate programs on the Internet today. We based our evaluations on the following criteria.
Affiliate Money - Obviously our main goal with any affiliate program is to make money. The main criteria we used was how much money we could make with the program in a one month period.
Complexity - We want our affiliate programs to be simple to implement. Those that required high levels of technical knowledge ranked much lower.
How-to Advice - From the last criteria we ranked programs that walked us step-by-step through the process of earning money online much higher than those that didn't.
Completeness - If the program recommended things like AdWords, did it actually teach how to setup the AdWords account?
Ease of Learning and Time to Implement - A good affiliate program should be simple to learn and take only a short amount of time to get running. Most people starting out with affiliate marketing can deal with an hour a day, and a good program shouldn't take longer than that to implement or monitor.
Ease of Use - All of the above criteria were grouped into the rating ease-of-use. We want our affiliate programs to be so easy that even an idiot could make money with them.
Cost Involved - The best affiliate programs teach you how to make money without putting a bunch of your own money on the line. The programs that made our top five only required a web site (less than $20), and one didn't even require that.
Overall Rating - From all of the criteria we gave each program an overall rating.
To evaluate each affiliate learning package we took each program and implemented the strategies that it taught. To ensure fair testing I didn't just test them myself. I tested each one, and also gave the program to a relative newcomer to test as well.
Results were gauged by both my ability to make money with the program, and one of my friends ability to make money with it (a good learning package should teach both experienced affiliates and newcomers how to make cash). We tested each program for a full month after implementing the ideas we were learned.
Below you will find our results for the top three affiliate programs available right now. The clear winner was
Free Site Signup, but the others on our list didn't do too badly. All of the top five worked to create income. If you need any help selecting the right package to start with please feel free to email me (info@1freemoneymakingwebsite.com).
Below are the top 3 affiliate marketing systems (out of 39 tested) that work to earn money online using affiliate marketing. They have been tested based on earnings potential, ease of use for beginners, customer support, training, guarantees, and overall value.
After you get going, send me an email (on my contact page) and let me know how much you are earning. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Ben Woods