affiliate marketing companies

in market research article) One way to find a market is looking at what your friend like most doing. For teens I guess, games, mp3, ring tones, iPods etc are choices that you may consider.

Where to find products?

Some suppliers such as Amazon, Erun their own affiliate programs, while others let a middle man (affiliate managers) to run theirs. If the supplier is not a well known one, it is safer for you to sign up an affiliate network and promote the products that you’re interested. For ring tones, Mp3 or digital products you may consider signing up with Click Bank or ClixGalore .

Why affiliate programs?

The reasons on why promoting others people products are 3 fold.

1. It saves you time to create your own products,
   
2. it gives you the opportunity to build a generous residual income,
   
3. it makes you an owner if a small business instantly. Many people are already make a million from these affiliate programs alone.

Building a website

You may ask if you need a website for this affiliate opportunity. The answer, it prefers have a website, but there are also affiliate marketing programs that let you to build your own website using their affiliate websites templates. Usually you can promote their products using the template but if you want to promote others, they wouldn’t let you. Therefore How do you build a website fast and sells your affiliate products? stay tuned we will talk about this next week.

Affiliate Managers / Networks

Affiliate managers are companies that let merchants to set up an affiliate programs for an amount of management fees. They often have sophisticated sales(commission), leads, clicks tracking system for both sellers and resellers (or affiliates). It is a ready made system that save sellers administration cost and time to promote their own affiliate programs since well-known affiliate networks already got thousand of resellers and they can promote your products when you offered them generous commission and banners to use.
Depends on the managers, setup, management fees or account deposit may apply. Please check their FAQ, merchants, advertisers TOS or ask them if there is a question before signing up.

The benefits on affiliate networks

While there are software on the market that assist you to track affiliate sales, refund, and pay your resellers commission, but you have to promote your own affiliate programs through relevant forums posting, online classified ads, search engines ads, banner ads etc. Whats more, you may need to hire extra staffs to track commission payment, refund, charge back etc. On the other hand affiliate networks,

1. usually have already thousands of resellers working for them which reduce your effort and time to promote your own affiliate programs.
2. always pay the products commission on time.
3. have sophisticated system to track sales, refund, charge back issues,
4. affiliates never have to worry about if they would receive their commissions.
5. you just have to login your account to see if everything’s fine and that is. These alone with save you dozen of time. Therefore it is better to list your products through a well-known reliable network. A list of such a network can be found here.

There are a lots of affiliates managers on the market. Depends on your niche, you may consider to sign up with the followings:

1. Click bank – for digital products such as ebooks, web hosting, computer software, cell phones ring tones, games etc. For merchants $49.95 upon accounts activation, $1 + 7.5% for each product sale. Free sign up for affiliates.
2. CJ.com - specialize in financial, travel and retail. Offers pay per lead or sale solution, Free sign up for affiliates.
3. linkshare.com – many fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, American Express, WalMart, and so on are using their services, so you are big enough, this one is for you. Free sign up for affiliates.
4. shareAsale.com – offers pay per leads, pay per sale or pays per hits solutions to merchants and resellers. You may sell both digital or physical products. However, they have account deposit, registration fees and transaction fees for each sale made, more information here. Free for affiliates to sign up.
5. clixGalore.com – No setup fees or activation fees for merchants or vendors. However, you are required to deposit the sum of $75 for affiliate commission payment and 25% management fee for each commission payment. For example if you are willing to pay for $10 to affiliates for successful sign up, purchase, or click, clixGalore will charge you extra, $2.5 for each transaction. More information here. Free sign up for affiliates.
6. payDotCom.com – No products pre-approval, merchants activation fees, account keeping fees, payment directly to your paypal accounts. Fees are charged per product sale split 50/50 among merchants and affiliates, Details: http://www.paydotcom.com/fees.php
   you can sell both digital or physical products. Free sign up for affiliates.

1. dealDotCom.com – an internet marketing niche affiliate programs. Everyday they have a draw to win a deal. Free sign up for affiliatesor submit product here.

How can teens make money online?

While most make money online opportunities required you at least 18 years of age to join, how a teen actually can make money online?

Method 1 – Paid surveys or online surveys filling.

Companies these days do seek out teens’ opinion on topics like video/online games, fashions, movies, music or activities that most teenagers would participate. Here are we have researched some online surveys companies that allow teens (usually 13+ years of age, around the world and do speak English) to take part in:

1. GlobalTestMarket.com. It is a world wide survey company that available in about 40 languages, but you must be at least 14-17 with parental consent to sign up. Learn more about GlobalTestMartket.com here.
2. SurveySavvy.com Open to individual around the world easy to sign up, and you can refer your friend to participate this paid surveys activity. For each completed survey by your friends, you will earn 2 dollars, and $1.00 for every survey their referrals complete. It’s free to sign up, join now
3. Netverdix.com opens to any individual who can speaks English and 13 years of age or older, for maximum amount money that you can earn, make sure to complete your users profile. More information here!

While we will talk more on other methods later the coming weeks.