Work At Home As Affiliate Marketer , e-book publisher or info product creator

Three Online Internet Business Models

1) Affiliate Marketing

This is perhaps the single most popular work at home internet business

model out there, seeing how the possibilities to

getting started are endless. Just about anyone can sign-up for an affiliate program for free and start

promoting products or services on the internet with hopes that someone will buy, giving them instant

commissions.

Affiliate marketers for the most part, do not carry any risk since they do not-

- pay for the creation of the product or service being promoted

- affiliates do not handle customer service of the actual product or service (maybe upsells or bonus offers)

- affiliates do not need any up-front investments (sometimes there are latent costs on websites,promos, ad

spend, outsourcing, and services- which all make your life tremendously easy.

When you consider that those are the top three things prospective business owners and online business owners

want to avoid, thats why its no surprise that there are hundreds and thousands of affiliates worldwide.

In fact, if there is a single reason why the internet today is so inundated with online ads and banner ads,

it's

because of affiliate programs and affiliate marketing alike.

Even though there are so many affiliate marketers out there, approximately the top 5% ever make any money

and only 1% of top affiliate marketers

make big money.

2)

E-book and Information Publishing

Authors, E book publishers, and information product publishers need to be a little more disciplined with

their approach to internet marketing business. Obviously, ebook publishers may also need to invest more

time,effort, and money than affiliates do. While affiliates can get away trying to "get something for

nothing" the same is not true for the e-book internet business.

If you're thinking about publishing and selling your own e-book online, and you think it's going to be easy,

think again. Online publishers typically need to learn a lot more about internet marketing than affiliate

marketers are required to, but this is not always true , as many affiliate marketers are online ebook

publishers as well. You'll need to spend some amount of money getting your business up and running.

The reason why e-book marketers and "online info products" usually make more money is simple; they have very

low overhead on

production, logistics, and maintenance costs.

Most info and digital products hardly cost anything when they are produced by the millions if necessary,

and usually initial start-up costs can be recouped by selling just a few copies of high-margin info products

and e-books.

One of the best perks to publishing info products and ebooks is that you can recruit an army of affiliates

whom are more than willing to spend time, money , and effort on selling for you. Just think Amazon, Ebay,

Clickbank, Affiliate Networks, and many other online marketing methods.

Obviously, it is usually not as easy as it sounds, but you would be surprised that when executed properly,

the "Info Products and E-book Publishing" online business model is a truly profitable and sound online

business idea.

3) Internet Based Network Marketing

Many people state that the internet and network marketing are a match made in heaven.

Although almost 90% of people get it wrong when it comes to Internet based network marketing.

A lot of online marketers in this business usually think they are talking about network marketing, but in

reality they are referring to affiliate marketing.

They try to make the internet do all the work for them while they hide behind their computers and pretend

everything will be fine. Typically this does not work,

as an affiliate marketer should be building relationships (online and offline) and utilizing other peoples

contacts and networks. You would be surprised at what you can accomplish and what opportunities may present

themselves with a little networking. This paragraph may sound like an oxymoron, but keep in mind you would

be

presenting your own opportunities to other contacts and networked contacts and vice versa.

Internet based network marketing and affiliate marketing are simple if you take the time to understand

it,learn it, and are also willing to put in the time,effort, and money .

The role of the internet currently is only to get you the names and contact details of people you can talk

to,

after which you, not a computer, has to build a relationship with said people and help them to start their

own internet business.

Utilizing social networking websites for related business contacts and also for online marketing purposes

have also proven to be very lucrative for a myriad of online and offline business owners.

Due to the above statement, it is not necessary for you to have some high-tech system and pretend that your

auto responder is building relationships for you, maybe for products , but not true networking contacts.

Developing real contacts and opt in email lists to further market and to further build customer/contact

relationships is a very tedious, time consuming, and exhausting process.

The key is to have simple systems -KISS - "Keep It Simple Stupid" systems that are easy and can be

duplicated, something

you can teach to all those contacts and customers you have built a relationship with over a period of time.

E-book authors, no matter what they say, have no obligation to teach you their "How to Become a Millionaire

Online Overnight” or any variations of that. The reason is simple; why tell anyone the absolute truth when

you would just end up as their competitor anyways? No one wants more competitors, right?
Internet based network marketing is very much the opposite of that. You need to tell people just about

everything you know or your online business will never take off.

For this reason alone, it has been recommended that if you're new to the online world, you need to first

learn everything you can about internet marketing, online advertising, and affiliate marketing .Information

overload can and will stop you before you even get started, thats if you let it.

No matter which internet marketing model, affiliate marketing model, or online business model you choose,

make sure you understand the basics of online marketing, and stop listening to and buying things that are

not applicable to your business plans.

Keep in mind that the more you outsource your daily , mundane tasks - the more you will be able to

effectively focus on growing and diversifying your online business. This ties back into your networked

contacts, whom can probably refer you to reputable internet marketing companies that they have used and/or

currently use themselves.