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Choosing Sides in Affiliate
Marketing
by David Cooper
You've done your research and have determined that affiliate marketing is a
system that works. You know you want to be your own boss and build a
successful online business, and affiliate marketing strategies seem to be
the best way to effectuate that goal. Now, you feel like you need to make a
choice. Is your focus going to be on the production of products and
recruitment of affiliates to sell those products, or will you do better on
the marketing side as an affiliate?
Product production is a perfect option for those with a creative instinct
for finding and fulfilling needs within the marketplace. It does require the
presence of some specialized skills. You'll need to be a researcher, a
writer and/or a coder in order to make it work. If you have the right
outlook and the appropriate skill set, it may be the right side of the fence
for you.
Affiliate marketers tend to be just as creative, but their skills lie in
marketing and promotion. Often, those with some sales background find that a
great deal of what they have learned in the brick and mortar world transfers
effectively to their online business. If you like to promote and have a good
feel for what motivates people to actually buy once they've been introduced
to a product, you might want to set up camp on the affiliate marketing side
of the fence.
Either option can make for a successful online business. However, there is a
third option that is embraced by many of the most recognized names in the
industry. They do both.
Refusing categorization and avoiding pigeonholing, these people spend time
selling others' products on commission while simultaneously creating and
selling their own products directly and through affiliate programs.
Production and marketing, you see, are not mutually exclusive. One can do
both, and they can often do it quite successfully.
If you are new to the online business world and want to get involved with
affiliate marketing, you will probably want to choose one side and begin
there. In time, however, you may want to experiment with some of the
activities on the other side of the divide. That's one of the great things
about affiliate marketing. There is room for exploration and
experimentation.
There are those who have found a niche as product producers. There are
others who earn a very healthy living exclusively through affiliate
marketing sales. Some, however, do both and can manage the task
successfully. It may require a bit of time before someone is completely read
to try that balancing act, but it may very well be the route that offers the
greatest potential for success because income sources become quite
diversified.
Choose sides for now, but never look at those on the other side of the
divide as "the other." In time you may be one of them, too.
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