Are Affiliate Programs A Real Money Maker

Are you an affiliate marketer? Have you tried to sell affiliate products? Did you have success? Did you make a profit?

These are the most common questions I ask when I run into someone who claims to be an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketing is one of the most sought after income makers on the internet. It seems to be the easiest way to earn an income without spending lots of money to get money in return.

Or is it?

I have tried hundreds of opportunities only to find out that most of them are crap. 99% of the opportunities I have tried turned out to be a flop. Most of them are created by finding things on the internet that already exist, reselling something that already exist and then trying to market them to someone who has not yet found it.

Here’s an example,

“How To Profit Google Adwords” “How To Produces Videos That Sell” “How To Market Successfully On Ebay” “How To Make $1,000,000.00 From Home” “I Made $10,000 While Sleeping” Sound familiar? It should because those are the most popular headlines on the internet today. Most of the programs sell you promises that play on your emotions, and once you join you are given information that is just enough to make you think you got a bargain and not want a refund, but not enough information to really give you the answers to help you succeed and make a profit. I have found this to be the main fault with 99% of most internet affiliate programs today.

Why do we buy it? Because we are programmed to respond to “Great Sells Letters”. That’s right! We read the front page, listen to someone’s sad story about how they, lost their job, lost the car, they were dead broke, their spouse was fixing to leave them, and the dog ran away. The next sentence is “All of a sudden they found a secret on the internet that made them $10,000 dollars over night!”

And it was so easy “You” can do it.

Your emotions play an important role in getting you to click the buy button. That is why most internet marketers use them. Stop and think for a moment before you click the buy button and ask yourself, are you buying this program for the knowledge you will receive, or because you have been in the same sad story.

After failing at lots of opportunities I set out on a quest to find 3 “Real Programs”, with “Real Products”. These 3 programs must hold up to their promise of teaching me something that really does work.

What I have discovered on my journey about affiliate marketing programs is that if the sales page starts out with “ How Broke”, Lost My Car”, “A Miracle Happen”, “Discovered”, “Secrets Revealed” or similar statements, chances are you are aiming for a failure. In my opinion, if they have to play on “your emotions” to sell their product, it is probably not worth the investment.

Now if on the other hand the program avoids all the hype and starts out explaining powerful features of the program they are selling, the benefits of the program, and what it can do for you, chances are you are really going to learn something that could be profitable to you. You have to really do you homework to find programs that really work. The best part is that once you do find a good program, you can actually use it to make money.

After my quest to find the best 3 programs on the internet, and a loss of approximately $5000.00, I have found 3 programs that really stick out above the rest. These programs really show you step by step, and video by video on how to really succeed and make money. Not all programs are this powerful but these 3 held up to my expectations.