Stop Renting Your Profits: Can You Survive Without Affiliate Programs?
By Donesia Muhammad

This article may be hard for some marketers to understand. This article may actually change your mind on how to properly succeed online.

This article will show you what I have eventually learned and what you will learn as well.

Renting Your Profits, What Does That Mean?

For all of you who are making money from affiliate programs and other money making programs, congratulations. Affiliate programs and other money making programs can help you supplement your income online. I should know. Not only am I a member of various affiliate programs, but I also run my own affiliate program as well. So don't think this is an anti-affiliate program article.


Notice, I Said Supplement Your Income.


Now what are you going to do the day you get that email that says

"Thank you for your participation in our affiliate program, but we have decided to discontinue this product, and effective immediately you can no longer spend all your time promoting my product. Have a nice day"

So what are you going to do. You have spent all your time promoting this product. Your entire ezine is focused on this product.

Now what are you going to talk about? Now where are your profits going to come from?

Remember a long time ago, every successful marketer told you one thing


If you want to succeed online, you need to have your own product or service that you own outright 100% or you will never achieve marketing success.


THIS IS THE FIRST, MOST IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS ONLINE MARKETING
SUCCESS.


Let me say this again..


THIS IS THE FIRST, MOST IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS ONLINE MARKETING
SUCCESS.

I am not referring to products that you have the rights to resell and reprint. This a great money maker as I have ebooks that I resell myself, but you know what. That's not my main source of income.

Why?

I didn't write this ebook. If the author sets a certain criteria for their material, you have no choice but to comply since it is not your material in the first place.

The benefits of owning your own product or service online are endless. You make the rules. you collect all the profits, end of story..

When I first started out, I heard that same line, and said to myself " I can't invent software or develop some sort of service, I'll just rely on these affiliate programs."

Didn't even care what the product was, just as long as it had a high commission, you can be sure I signed up for it.

REALITY CHECK

Everyone else was promoting the same thing. By the time I got around to promoting it, no one cared, and I was lucky to see $10!

I had to use their material to promote, had to stick to their guidelines. Even if I was successful, it dawned on me that I am helping to promote someone else's products and services.

So I thought about what I can do to carve a niche in this world of marketing. If I can't think of a product to come up with, what about a service? That's why I came up with Ezine Ad Helper.com


You see my original website My IBiz Helper is great but I didn't have anything unique to offer my visitors, so I came up with Ezine Ad Helper.

It is not a reseller of another ad coop, or anything else like that.

Ezine Ad Helper is owned by KDM Publishing, which is owned by me.

So while my service oriented business is far from being a new concept, it is mine, and that is what you focus on.

HOW CAN I COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR MY OWN PRODUCT OR SERVICE?

Okay once I realized that I was not going to put Bill Gates out of business, I thought realistically about what I wanted to do.

Take stock of your skills, abilities, all of your previous jobs, and the skills that you have learned online before. If you have had any previous sales experience, then half the battle is won.

There are various products and services that you can do to appeal to the online community. It is not as hard as you think.

Now in terms of making millions, well that's another story. Like any real business, you will be lucky to see your first profit anytime soon, but remember nothing comes handed to you.

Web Design, Desktop Publishing, Script Installation, Web Hosting, Writing Sales Copy, Graphic Design, Resume Creation, Virtual Assistants, get the idea..


SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT AFFILIATE PROGRAMS DON'T WORK?

Please don't get me wrong. If I thought affiliate programs didn't work I wouldn't have one for my own site. Here is what I figured out:

If you have your own product or service, then select only a few key affiliate programs that will compliment your main product or service.

Stop signing up for everything just because it offers a high commission. Look for solid products to enhance what you are already offering. After all, I don't expect to see an ad for tobacco at a children's website so think before you sign up..

If you cannot take this first simple step of owning your own product or service outright, then you are already placing strikes against you in your path to Internet Marketing Success..

So now you can ask yourself after reading this...

Are You Going To Keep Renting Your Profits Or Are You Ready To Own And Own Big..





Copyright (c) 2002 Donesia Muhammad
Donesia Muhammad is an aspiring Netpreneur. Visit her site http://EzineAdHelper.com  for help with your internet business and ezine advertising.
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