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<p>Selling products for commission has always been a popular way to make money online.</p>
<p>Selling other people&#8217;s products this way is known as affiliate marketing. This is because to make money you have to sign up as an affiliate and earn money through marketing their products.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing can be something you do just to earn some extra money through your website, or as a way to earn all your online income.</p>
<p>There are affiliate marketers working online who are known as super affiliates. The best known of these is Rosalyn Gardner who earns around $500k/year as an affiliate marketer.</p>
<p><b>How to Market Affiliate Products.</b></p>
<p>The best way to be able to market a product is by owning it. That way when you&#8217;re writing about it, you know exactly what you&#8217;re talking about.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s not always possible to own every product you promote. For instance, if you have a diet and fitness site and you want to promote a treadmill that costs thousands $$$, it&#8217;s not practical to buy it first. Yet these items can earn you hundreds $$$ with just one sale.</p>
<p>Instead you can read online reviews, sales pages and visit forums where they&#8217;re talking honestly about the product. This will give you a clear understanding of the product and what it can do, how it can benefit customers and what its limitations are.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re researching a product, it&#8217;s best to make a copious amount of notes and condense them down to the information you need, rather than not make enough notes and not be able to write enough about the product.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re marketing a product, you need to be promoting the benefits of owning the product, rather than describing what the product can do.</p>
<p>For instance, years ago, when MP3 players first became popular, every company was promoting the &#8220;features&#8221; of their players rather than the benefits of owning it. They talked about sound quality and how many megabytes of storage their devices had. But none of this meant a great deal to their customers.</p>
<p>Then along came Apple with their first MP3 player and marketed it by describing the benefit of owning it by simply saying, &#8220;a thousand songs in your pocket&#8221;</p>
<p>Bam!</p>
<p>Their iPod outsold all the other MP3 players.</p>
<p>Self-help guru Tony Robbins says that sometimes we&#8217;re more inclined to run away from pain rather than run towards pleasure.</p>
<p>So when marketing a product you can also start by describing the &#8220;pain&#8221; the reader might be feeling because they don&#8217;t own the product before going on to talk about how their problems (pains) will be reduced/solved once they own the product.</p>
<p>But all this begins with understanding what your customers want.</p>
<p>What does someone want if they&#8217;re thinking about buying a treadmill?</p>
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<li>Not having to walk outside in bad weather?</li>
<li>Easier than walking on uneven ground outside?</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t have to drive to the gym?</li>
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<p>Naturally anyone buying a treadmill wants to get fit. But if that&#8217;s all they wanted, they&#8217;d simply put on a pair of running shoes and head off out the door or they&#8217;d drive to the gym.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s something that compels them to buy their own running machine and it has to be more than the desire to run, because running is free, yet treadmills cost thousands.</p>
<p>Understanding how your customers think is paramount if you want to make money with affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>So begin by looking for products/companies that offer an affiliate program. Or join an affiliate network that offers hundreds and thousands of products you can promote for hundreds of different companies, all through one account.</p>
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