Affiliate marketing – an excellent side income for serving personnel

Veterans looking for extra income should be marketing on the net. It's mobile and profitable!

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Serving in the military brings specific demands. Aside from the obvious traumas implicit in combat situations, personnel face a whole raft of difficulties, including the stress of being separated from loved ones for lengthy periods, and fretting about what their future holds after their period of obligation has concluded.

One subject at the back of anyone’s mind is worrying about financial stability. While deployed in a war zone thousands of miles away there aren’t many opportunities to make appointments with a local bank manager or to consult a financial advisor. It can also be difficult for veterans to get back into the labor market. But there is some good news on the horizon.

There is one business model which is currently taking the world of e-commerce by storm. It is free to set up, relatively straightforward to organize, requires fairly minimal upkeep, and the dividends can be lucrative. Welcome to affiliate marketing. This can cover all manner of online retailing, with networks. The TopOffers adult CPA offers are gaining huge traffic.

In order to appreciate how flexible and easy it is to operate as an affiliate marketer, here’s a brief introduction to the concept. It has been referred to as a win-win scenario because it is mutually beneficial for the two parties involved. It’s all about selling products on behalf of someone else, usually a retail organization. That could be absolutely anyone, from your local convenience store to Amazon.



These retail organizations, or advertisers, don’t like wasting cash on unnecessary advertising campaigns. They’ve discovered this neat method of getting an array of smaller entrepreneurs to do this for them. So they offer what is known as affiliate programs, which are basically products they wish to sell, which the affiliate marketers can sign-up to promote on their behalf.

This benefits the advertiser because it isn’t costing them anything to plug their items anymore. The onus for that has been shifted onto the small businesses or sole traders – the marketers. The benefit for the latter is also massive. It doesn’t cost a cent to sign-up to these programs. Once they have done so, the advertiser sends out code which the marketer can place on their website or blog. Then every time a customer drops by and ‘clicks-through’ these links to make a purchase, the advertiser pays commission on each sale.

Setting up a website isn’t an arduous task in this day and age. Anyone with an Internet connection can Google ‘website building’ and come across numerous sites that offer templates and straightforward step-by-step guides to constructing a web platform. But the most important aspect of any affiliate marketing venture isn’t even the site itself. It’s the content you write, ensuring those all-important hyperlinks flow logically within your text.

Choosing which product to endorse is the biggest decision you have to make. This would preferably be something you can blog about. Say you’re into baseball. How about starting up a little business selling New York Yankees memorabilia? (Insert name of a preferable team, obviously.) Now when you put together your web pages using the online instructions, make sure you write compelling features about the Yankees (or whoever), while subtly inputting those links.

It’s crucial you focus on the content – the articles that will entice people to keep coming back to check out your blog – while those links come a distant second. Site visitors will only be repelled if they see nothing but “please buy this” links. But you can use social media to get your message out there. You could soon have a good little earner on your hands.

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