Affiliate Marketing and Poker Education

Many - if not most - of these more prominent companies pay relatively small commissions (either small percentages of purchase value or small per-transaction fees), and have very tight deadlines within which they credit a sale - some time-frames as short as during a single visit only, meaning that if you are the referring party and your referred visitor does not purchase immediately after following your tracked referral link, you don't get a commission on a sale made to that same person even if s/he returns on buy on the same day.

However, there are many, many marketers, and affiliate networks that have multiple vendors, which pay some wonderfully high fees - as much as up to 100% OR MORE of the purchase price - to the referring party, and do so for the trackable life of the referred party - in some cases many years after the initial visit. (Why would a marketer pay 100% or more of their sale to the referring party? If you know or can figure it out, submit a reply to this blog post, and I'll use correct answers in a future post.)

Affiliate Marketing is an exceptional, legitimate means by which anyone - including YOU - can make at least a small, supplemental amount of money, either in one short burst, or on an ongoing basis. For those who "stick with the program," Affiliate Marketing income can expand over time into an amount that could replace - and even greatly exceed - your current income.

One of the major benefits of Affiliate Marketing is that you as a promoting Affiliate are simply referring others to another vendor. THAT VENDOR is responsible for doing the final marketing pitch, making the final sale, handling the customer finances, delivering the products and/or services, and providing all of the ongoing customer service.

Once you've done your work to drive visitors to the vendor's sales Web page or site, you COULD consider your work done, and then just sit back and collect your referral commission payments.

Those Affiliates who do even more, however - who communicate in an ongoing fashion with their referred prospects, and provide their own follow-up and customer service, including, for example, training their referred buyers how to use the vendor's products or services - are the really big-money earners.

Once you know that you wish to earn money as an Affiliate Marketer by promoting one or more products or services, you must decide what you wish to market.

Of course, you want to select products, services, events, etc. that are legal, and that fall within your scope of personal ethics and morals.

After that, you'll very likely find one or more products and services that you can promote that are in harmony with one or more of your personal passions. Or products and services that address the needs of your industry. Or that meet a specific group of people's expressed desires.

A good place to begin looking for products, services and membership programs to promote is the CLICKBANK MarketPlace. (The link you click here will take you to the page for people or businesses that want to use ClickBank to market their own products or services using ClickBank's cadre of registered Affiliates.) Just click on the "Promote Products" tab to search the ClickBank Marketplace and to sign up as a Clickbank Affiliate.

So what's the relevance of posting this article on "Poker Central?"

CLICK HERE to read another post about how to earn money as an "Affiliate Manager" for an individual or a company that needs someone to recruit, train and manage others to promote their products, services, events or membership programs as Independent Marketing Affiliates.

You can earn money as either an Affiliate Marketer or (in some cases) as an Affiliate Manager for poker-related gaming sites and/or other poker-related product and service providers.

The International Poker Education Network and the International Poker Institute (producers of non-gaming "virtual" and on-site poker education and entertainment products, services, events and membership programs) are jointly seeking Independent Marketing Affiliates and a highly motivated Affiliate Manager. Visit www.My-IPCentral.com/affiliates to learn more or to apply.