Affiliate Marketing Forums

Here's a short list of my favorite affiliate marketing forums.


WickedFire
http://www.wickedfire.com/

Warrior Forum
http://warriorforum.com/

AssociatePrograms.com
http://www.associateprograms.com/discus/index.php

5 Star Affiliate Forum
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/

SEO Affiliate Marketing Forum
http://forums.seochat.com/affiliate-marketing-58/

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing - Part 4

NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favoriteinternet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing - Part 4
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"

I'm sure by now you are well aware that there are those whohave reported HUGE amounts of money being made with theironline businesses. What you may not be aware of is theamount of work involved in generating those "sales" (notalways net profit, mind you ... this isn't "spendable"income in a lot of cases.)

That brings me to the fourth reason why I love affiliatemarketing...

** You don't need to manage an entire business **

While it can be quite lucrative, running an entire business with employees, inventory, partners, vendors, and other associates can be a time-sucking, frustrating ordeal.

Imagine...

* Processing refunds
* Putting out fires when partners SPAM
* Managing day-to-day operations
* Overseeing projects you've outsourced
* Recruting new affiliates
* Training everyone to help you
* Paying taxes
* Taking care of the paper trail
* Doing all of the "stuff" that business owners do.

Didn't you want to start an internet business to make more time for important things in life?

Why not make a lot of money WITHOUT making a lot of extrawork for yourself?!

It can be a lot of extra work and stress. BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don't need to manage an entire business! You are simply responsible for promoting your affiliate link... someone else handles all the rest.

That's why I love affiliate marketing.

You don't need to manage an entire business.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Affiliatenaire", teachingyou how to create big-time affiliate commission checks inonly 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash inthe bank without a website, experience or even an idea!Visit http://affiliateprofitboost.info/affiliatenaire
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Any Serious Affiliate Marketer Knows These 3 Tools Are a Must

As you have probably heard it is possible to make a decent living as an affiliate marketer. What most people don't realize is in affiliate marketing, like any business, there are certain tools that are required in order to run an efficient business. Although you can earn a little money without them if you want to make it to the top they are a must.

1. Your Own Website to collect visitors information
Your website should serve one purpose--to collect prospects information--names & email addresses. Be sure that you have a specific call to action let prospects clearly know what you want them to do. Offer incentives(free reports, ebooks, ecourses) to encourage your visitors to sign-up.

2. An Autoresponder to Deliver Regular Messages
Your autoresponder will work for you delivering subscribers more information about your niche. You can also use it to inform them of new products, services and special offers.

3. Quality products to recommend for back-end sales
The subscribers on your list are potential customers. Continue building a relationship with them by providing them with valuable content, make back-end sales by recommending related
products.

Of course there are many more tools that you'll need as an affiliate marketer these 3 are just the basics. (As you probably noticed tool #1 & tool #2 will lead to tool #3 and anyone serious about affiliate marketing knows "the money is in the list")