Affiliate Marketing Industry Too Complicated?
Making money online with affiliate links is getting harder to succeed at due to the many changes in internet advertising and search engines. I've heard about Amazon dropping their Affiliate Marketing program in some states across the US due to new E-commerce taxes and Google is making their policies more strict for search and Pay Per Click. While Masking links, also known as Cloaking, to consumers can make them shy away from clicking the trackable link altogether at the risk of being tricked into some spam or adware.
Quality Niche Markets for promoting are also more difficult to find these days and entrepreneurs need to know their specialty so that they can proficiently write articles, blogs, emails and content. Sometimes hiring ghost writers is needed for unskilled marketers with their links to be sent out to their mailing list or paying for rented email lists. Promoting these affiliate links and websites are also a honed skill that drives traffic to potential sales with the risk of looking like endless sales pages loaded with testimonials and A/V widgets. Affiliate marketers also need time management to plan campaigns and promote their niche to a targeted audience and perform analytics for ROI.
I dabbled in Affiliate Marketing a long time ago, probably around 2004-5 when I was first starting this blog. I signed up for ClickBank and got some links for products (eBooks) on topics that I personally know something about and tried to promote them. Then I saw how hard it was when I didn't really know what I was doing and stopped myself from wasting many late night hours trying to build a landing page, create a mailing list and spend money advertising trying to get qualified leads. As time went on the Marketing Gods smiled on Market America's affiliate shopping program which grew by leaps and bounds so I decided to focus on that since it already ties into my established commission's with the company, now that made sense!
Thanks to JR's vision of MA's private labels being the "Lake" and the vast internet of product and services being the "Ocean" of income potential and the creation of an amazingly talented IT dept and Partner Store team at corporate, it's actually been fun working on promoting affiliates and Hot Deals with links and special offers exclusively for Market America's customers. I just had to create some social media profiles and tie them all in for "sharing" to my connections and focus on this blog as my personal voice on the web. And I'm not even counting the mobile app that recently updated to scan barcodes in-store for the best deals and cash back!
So if you are an Affiliate Marketer or trying to find a way to capitalize on the "Make Money Online" and "Work At Home" trend with E-commerce then I highly recommend you evaluate the UnFranchise system with over 2,500 Partner Store affiliates that MA has accrued and the marketing plan that pays more than the average company with the latest tools and technology being developed for independents like myself, at little or no additional cost to me, it's included in my UnFranchise as a resource.
Take for instance the latest social media tool that just came out this week at MAIC2011, the "ShopBox", which is an app within FaceBook for showcasing up to MA branded products to be shared on a Personal Profile newsfeed where "Friends" can shop and check out without leaving Facebook! It's all done within the killer app in the newsfeed which they call F-commerce, now that's a game-changer! It's being developed further for adding to Fan/Business Pages and websites too as you read this. Visit this page to see it for yourself, just be aware of your computer's sound level since the video auto-starts with some louder than we'd like music.
Why make things more complicated than they already are? Simplify with a proven successful plan, it's our family's Plan B for creating residual income for our retirement years that allows the Time Freedom for me to work around my schedule and kids. I like the systemized approach with people to coach and educate me through the on-going process so that "being my own boss" doesn't make me slack off. And one of the best things about this system is that we're a team of entrepreneurs with the common goal to raise each other up and not be vicious competitors. Sure there may be a rotten apple out there somewhere but those can be found anywhere, at MA the webportal is "Bigger Better Faster Easier" and the people are "One Team One Dream".
Now Take Some Action, It's Later Than You Think! 
UPDATE 8/14: This article from Internet Retailer magazine's site is making the rounds. It illustrates the vendor's point of view as to why they are leaving Amazon and best of all they mention Shop.com ( which was acquired by Market America Dec. '10 & our new technology base and soon the official portal domain!).
Posted by Lisa Moffa at 8/12/2011 1:34 AM 
Categories: UnFranchise Business Development , Partner Store Info, Business Building, Making Money Online
Tags: Affiliate Marketing Niche Marketing Partner Stores MAIC2011 Facebook Google Amazon
Categories: UnFranchise Business Development , Partner Store Info, Business Building, Making Money Online
Tags: Affiliate Marketing Niche Marketing Partner Stores MAIC2011 Facebook Google Amazon
Comments