Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Marketing Your Home-Based Business: Affiliate Programs

The tenth way you can market your home-based business is through affiliate programs. An online affiliate program can market your products or services to a wider range of customers.


A business in an affiliate programs rewards other affiliated businesses for each visitor or customer brought into the affiliate via its own marketing. Examples of affiliate programs include rewards sites. You also can grab a percentage of the sales generated via affiliations with online retailers like Amazon.com.

You can work with a variety of affiliate programs to optimize your business and cross-promote those relationships on your website and other promotional materials. Check out affiliate program clearinghouses like http://www.affiliateonline.net/ for ideas, but be sure to vet the programs through the Better Business Bureau and read all the fine print very carefully before signing any contracts.

Until next time,

Sarah

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