Welcome to all the new members who joined our group during this last week.
The theme this week moves on from last week to Affiliate Marketing. Our article addresses the issue of being able to effectively market an affiliate product without having a hosted domain name.

This week's contents:

1. This week's article entitled "Affiliate Marketing - can I be successful without a domain"
2. A very extensive handbook on Affiliate Marketing
3. For Affiliate Marketing there is no place like Clickbank
4. One of the top Affiliate Marketing systems online
5. This week's tip.

1. This week's article

Title: Affiliate Marketing - can I be successful without a domain

Many Internet Marketers will tell you that it is not possible to create a profitable business without your own website. A shop window, so to speak. This basic rule is stressed even more in the case of Affiliate Marketing. In other words, without your own website's shop window you are sending your potential customers to someone else's website shop window. However, the basis of Affiliate Marketing is that you are promoting someone else's product to effect a commission for yourself when a sale is made. So, why incur additional overhead costs by setting up your own website shop window, when in reality you are going to send the visitor from your shop window to the originally targeted product anyway. Good question, and the following is an attempt to evaluate the pros and the cons of this dilemma.

Even though it is true that having your own website can greatly improve your chances of success with an Affiliate Marketing Business. Can it can be done without one? The answer of course is "yes" and if money is a stumbling block when you start an Internet Business, then it is a viable alternative to the normal methods in order to get started.

The fundamentals of Affiliate Marketing are to find a quality product in your niche market within a good affiliate program. The affiliate link is provided by the merchant, which you then promote by whatever means is possible to drive traffic to the product through your affiliate link. Any resulting sales will pay you a commission. The affiliate link is tied to you through a cookie sent at the time the link is clicked, so does it matter whether you send someone directly to the product site?

In actual fact there are some drawbacks to directly promoting Affiliate marketing links, as indicated below:

1. Many people do not like buying through affiliate links and will change the link to exclude the affiliate ID and buy the product directly from the merchant.
2. There are quite a lot of unscrupulous people on the Internet and they go one step further by removing your affiliate ID and replacing it with their own.
3. If you promote the affiliate link within Google Adwords for example, they are degrading duplicate domain root names, which are shown in each affiliate link generated. When there are a lot of affiliates in competition for the same keyword Google will place the highest bid on the keyword in the higher listings while the others are demoted to the very lower level of the listings.
4. You cannot generate an opt-in list - the merchant gets all these benefits.
5. Although the product is good quality, in your opinion the sales page will not convert well, there is no way of remedying this without a landing page on your own domain.

The only real benefit of directly promoting your affiliate link is that your costs are reduced.

The absence of your own website will not stop you in your quest for online success. Most of the regular methods of driving traffic to your affiliate link will work, which include Article Marketing, Forums, and Ezine Advertising, and so on. So if your financial situation restricts your expenditure you can still start an Internet Business using Affiliate Marketing and then as finances improve get your domain and hosting to expand your promotion possibilities even further.

2. A very extensive handbook on Affiliate Marketing

This is the handbook written by Rosalind Gardner and called "The Super Affiliate Handbook. I have reviewed this book and you can find the review at the blog at Newbies Help Blog.

If you would like to go to the website and view the sales page then go to:

Super Affiliate Handbook

3. For Affiliate Marketing there is no place like Clickbank

Imagine having in excess of 100,000 affiliates promoting a product for you that you didn't even create? Andrew Fox reveals in his "Dominating Clickbank" step-by-step video tutorial system how he used the power of Clickbank and Adwords to generate more than 40,000 unique visitors and in excess of $25,000 in sales. Please take a look -

http://newbieshelp.com/Recommends/AF/

4. One of the top Affiliate Marketing systems online

When I started my online business a couple of years ago, the first affiliate marketing program that I joined was Internet Marketing Center (IMC). The Internet Marketing Center's top rated Affiliate Program is 100% free to join and gives you the ability to instantly create an income stream with minimal effort, without any cost or obligation on your part. To start maximizing the profit-producing power of your web site in the next 10 minutes, go to...

http://newbieshelp.com/Recommends/IMCAFF

5. This week's tip.

The most important aspect of your business to ensure success is to maintain the best possible communication with your visitors, as well as your list. The written word is far more powerful than you would appreciate at first. Simple, concise, truthful, and correctly written sales pages or emails will win every time over the fluff, the hype, and fanciful tripe that is often seen.,br>Put yourself in the shoes of the reader. If you were not impressed with your writings, how can you seriously think others will be enamored with it.

I hope that this week's issue was of interest to you, and maybe you found something that would be helpful in your own business. If so, I would appreciate any feedback you may have so that I can align future content to better suit your needs. Send them to [mailto:newsletter@newbieshelp.com]

Sincerely,
Derek Jones
Newbies Help - Editor

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