Starting a “Work from Home” Internet Business has been one of the hardest and most rewarding endeavors I have taken on in my life. Over the last year I have learned a great deal. I have learned the basics of affiliate marketing, website building, driving traffic, SEO, email campaigns, article campaigns, Adwords, blogs, and forums. A year ago my experience on a computer was limited to word, excel, my email account and looking up information on Google for my children’s homework.

Most of what I learned during the first six months was by trial and error, mostly error. I spent all kinds of money for information that was free and readily available on the internet. I was easily taken in by a smooth sales pitch and a good splash page. I was so desperate to find an instant “Get Rich Quick” scheme. During the first six months that I was learning about online businesses I also had my real job, and it was the reason I wanted to start my own “Work at Home” business. I couldn’t stand the traffic and travel time, (3 hours per day), the time I spent away from my family (12 hours per day minimum), or the actual work I was doing. Then I was laid off. Another company bought ours and closed down our whole department. My old job didn’t seem so bad now that I had lost it. Scared to death, I redirected my energies into my “Work from Home” business while also filling out endless job apps online.

I stopped wasting money on rip off products and scams. I started putting in my due diligence investigating products before investing in them. I found products that I could see others making money with. I spent the time asking the “stupid” questions I was embarrassed to before and I verified everything.

I want this site to be a place where everyone, newbie and accomplished, can come and learn from others’ accomplishments and mistakes. I want this site to be a place for honest information so that you don’t waste your time and money on certain products like I did. For those that are new-ask the questions you need answers to. For those of you that have become successful-this is your opportunity to give back and help someone else for the help that you received from someone once. No one is successful on their own. We always have help from somewhere.

I do have products listed on this site that we recommend as a good investment or opportunity. We have researched these products and they have passed all our requirements. We also list the products or systems that we have investigated and found to be scams or just not worth the money. Again our goal is to save your money and time from being wasted. Please feel free to make any comments on the products we have reviewed. We welcome any additional information.

We look at several things when deciding to give a product “Recommended” Status or not. Some of them are:
An accurate look at each program to see what the return on investment (ROI) would be.

Is there monthly residual income?

Is this an easily duplicated system-can it be used over and over again to reproduce profitable results?

Does the system provide good customer service?

What kind of Guarantee does the program have and how easy is it to receive a refund?

What is the percentage of returns for refund that the product has?

How much does the product cost?

We feel we ask a lot of a product before we give it our recommendation. We think you will agree. We want you to learn as much as possible here. We will continue to do reviews on new products. We will also have articles to help you promote the products that you choose and increase traffic to your website. Look forward to seeing your comments. Let us know if there is something you need addressed that we haven’t yet. Good Luck and God Bless.

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To know if affiliate marketing will work, you must first understand what affiliate marketing is. Affiliate marketing is an online advertising channel in which advertisers (online merchants that sell products or services) pay publishers (independent parties that promote the products or services of an advertiser on their Web site) only for results, such as a visitor making a purchase or filling out a form, rather than paying simply to reach a particular audience. This "pay-for-performance" model is in essence the modern version of the "finders'-fee" model, where individuals who introduce new clients to a business are compensated. The difference in the case of affiliate marketing is that advertisers only pay their publishers when the new client introduction results in a sale or a lead, making it a low-risk, high-reward environment for both parties.

The great thing about affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to own, develop, manufacture, or distribute a product. You just have to put in the time and energy to learn how to effectively sell in today’s internet arena. This is a wonderful partnership for both you and the merchant. You have the opportunity to make large amounts of money, and from the comforts of your own home or any vacation spot in the country for that matter. For the merchant, he has an affiliate sales force of many hundreds or thousands to promote his product and bring him new customers that he would not have had the opportunity to put his product in front of. For those of you that are new to affiliate marketing we hope the posts here at the AffiliateMarketersNetwork will help you on your way to a successful online business.

So where do you go to sign up? First you have to find one of the many companies that find affiliates for merchants. One of the biggest and best known companies to use affiliates is Amazon.com. They don’t pay as big a commission as some do, typically 4%-5%, but they have merchants that sell everything. So no matter what your interest is, Amazon will have products you can sell that match those interests. The next “big guy on the block” is Clickbank.com. They have tens of thousands of digital products with categories from “Business-to-Business” to “Society and Culture”. Their commissions range from 10%-75%, with a majority of the commissions falling between 50%-75%. Some of the others are Linkshare, Clickbooth, Paydotcom, Azoogle, Commission Junction, affiliate.com, Neverblue, Revenue Loop, MaxBounty and Mellnic Media. Checked out all of these so that you can determine which company is the best match for what you want to do.

Once you have done your research on which company or companies you want to do business with, you must then decide on which products you want to sell. Depending on your website or blog, there may be products more suited for the content on your site. You may want to design your site or blog around a product. To set up a website you can go to one of the many domain registrars and web hosting companies like Go Daddy.com, Network Solutions, or Register.com. I use Go Daddy. There you can set up your domain name. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get what you picked on the first go-around, it may take a few suggestions before you get one accepted. Once you have registered the name, if you Click Here! you can go to Host Gator.com for your web hosting. They have a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This is very important, if your site is not up and running people can’t see it. If they can’t see it, your not making money. They have FREE Instant Set-up, 45 day money back guarantee, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwith, They support- CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl, MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP. They have cPanel Hosting, 24/7/365 Upgrade support, No contracts or hidden fees, and they have a FREE Site Builder with over 4,500 templates to choose from for your website. You can get all this for as little as $4.95 a month. This is a great web hosting deal. Take a minute now to check out this link, so you can see everything they have to offer, then come back. Go ahead Click Here! I’ll wait on you.

So what did you think? Pretty good deal. How about that Site Builder Tool. It makes it so easy to complete your first website. What I like best is you can upgrade after you get going to unlimited website hosting. Once you get your first site up and producing, you will want to pick another product and repeat your same successes. Since you will eventually have numorous sites this option can save you a great deal of money.

So, you now have a product. You know what company you want to work with. You have your site set up. So what do you do now? Now you have to drive traffic to your site so you can send customers to your advertisers. There are many ways to do that, you can use SEO, email campaigns, article campaigns, Adwords, or a combination of any of these as well as others to drive traffic to your site.

This is were you can spend a lot of money and get very little in return if your not careful. We have researched many programs to check the viability of each one based on a number of elements. These investigations give us an accurate look at each program to see what the return on investment (ROI) would be. Is there monthly residual income? Is this an easily duplicated system-can it be used over and over again to reproduce profitable results? Does the system provide good customer service? What kind of Guarantee does the program have and how easy is it to receive a refund? This is the criteria we used to determine if a product was worth you investing your money in.

For further information check out our “Passed Our Review” List, we have done the background work to verify the legitimacy of these systems. They meet all the requirements to be recommended as an excellent affiliate marketing tool.
Traffic is what will determine the success of your endeavor. Money wisely invested here can make all the difference in the world. The systems we have approved, that have passed our investigations, can increase your income ten fold. No kidding. You’re paying for a proven system, one that has already shown it can make money. Now I am not saying that you couldn’t learn how to do this on your own, you can, but it would take you a minimum of 6 months to a couple of years to learn and then implement the practices that these systems have mastered. If you follow the steps outlined, any of these programs will pay for themselves anyway.

How long do you want to wait to start making an income from your internet business? How long do you want to wait before your making an income that allows you to work from anywhere you like? Do you want to trade your current job for one you can do from home? No bosses, No long drives in traffic, No set hours-say goodbye to that 40 or 50 hour week. You can start this as extra income, a second job, and as it grows to a point where you are making more money from your side business than your current job you will be free to quit that daily grind and really start enjoying your life. It has been the greatest blessing for me and my family to be able to work from home, not missing any of my boys’ activities in school or sports. My old job didn’t allow for that. This one does, and I love it.

So does affiliate marketing work? YES it does, like anything worthwhile, you just have to be dedicated, put the time in to follow through with your goal. Learn from others who have proven success records. Be smart about what products you choose and how you promote them. So let me leave you with a few quotes about success:

“Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more!”

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act!”

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome!”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful!”