Affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing can be a huge resid­ual income stream.  It has a low-cost set up, is fun, and can free up time for you to travel, learn a new lan­guage, or pur­sue any of your per­sonal goals.

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Here’s a great arti­cle that focuses on the 10 require­ments of affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing that will bring you you’re resid­ual income stream.

“Top 10 Com­mand­ments of Affil­i­ate Marketing

Ten best prac­tice tips for a prof­itable affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing business

Affil­i­ate pro­grams can be a big source of rev­enue. The key to max­i­miz­ing your earn­ings is engag­ing your read­ers. Unlike tra­di­tional ads where you are paid for impres­sions or clicks, affil­i­ates are only paid when/if a spe­cific action is per­formed. The action might be a pur­chase or sign­ing up for a newslet­ter, but regard­less, you are not paid until you’ve com­pelled your read­ers to act.

With that in mind, here are the Top 10 Com­mand­ments for affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing success.

1. Know Your Audience

The most suc­cess­ful way to use affil­i­ate pro­grams is to antic­i­pate and meet the needs of your read­ers. Con­sider why they are com­ing to your site. What are you pro­vid­ing that they are look­ing for? Make sure the affil­i­ate prod­ucts you are pro­mot­ing pro­vide a solu­tion to your audience’s problems.

If you are writ­ing about sports, don’t put up affil­i­ate ads for printer toner just because every­one has a printer and those pro­grams have a high pay­out. The peo­ple who are com­ing to read com­men­tary or get stats for their favorite teams aren’t think­ing about those things when they’re on your site.

The more rel­e­vant the ads are to your read­ers, the more likely they will use them.

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