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Tangible Affiliate Profits

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Tangible Affiliate Profits PDF
If you’ve been trying to make money online by promoting affiliate products and programs, you may have decided it’s not quite as easy as it might first appear. Affiliate programs can be quite lucrative however, and they are a wonderful online business choice for anyone who does not want to have to deal with providing customer support, shipping products, or handling refunds either.

Most people who are new to affiliate programs though, get their first experience by trying to sell digital products. Selling digital products through a place such as click Bank is easy to do. You don’t have to wait to be approved by each merchant, and once you start earning money you’ll receive a commission check every two weeks. The commissions are actually quite high for digital products as well. It’s not uncommon for affiliates to earn 50%, and sometimes as much as 75% for each sale.

What you need to realize though, is that there are millions of other products which you can promote as an affiliate. Most of the general public who uses the Internet are unfamiliar with digital products. Technically, they usually understand software to some small extent. But the concept of the digital e-book is still quite new to them. And it’s because of this, that sometimes selling a digital product is actually much harder to do.

To make the most money as an affiliate online, you need to promote products which people are already looking to buy. And nine times out of 10, the general public is looking to buy real products instead of digital ones. Real products are those which need to be shipped. And these are also referred to as the tangible products, because the customer actually has something they can touch once they’ve received it.

WHAT ARE TANGIBLE AFFILIATE PRODUCTS
Tangible affiliate programs can be found almost anywhere online. Amazon is an excellent example. They sell millions of products such as books, exercise equipment, DVDs, lawn mowers, bicycles, and even groceries. Amazon also has an affiliate program which allows you to promote most of the products they sell through their site. And any time one of those products to sell, you can receive an affiliate commission. Amazon does not pay affiliate commissions for everything they sell, but they do for most.

These physical products that they actually ship to the customer are known as tangible goods. When you promote them as an affiliate, you’re promoting tangible products instead of digital downloads. And there are tens of thousands of other merchants online who also sell tangible products, and they have affiliate programs too.

As an affiliate marketer, if you choose to promote tangible products – either instead of or in addition to digital products – you effectively increase your product line by millions. Instead of being limited to just 10 digital golf products to promote for example, you can literally start promoting hundreds of thousands of products instead.

WHY TANGIBLE AFFILIATE PRODUCTS MAKE YOU MORE MONEY
At first glance, it would appear as if affiliates cannot make as much money promoting tangible products as they can promoting digital products. This is a common mistake that many new affiliate marketers make. The mistake comes from looking at the commission percentages, instead of the actual profit numbers. If for example, you find a digital golf product which is paying 50% commissions, that looks much better to you then the tangible golf product which is only paying 10% commissions.

The key is not in the commission rates though. You need to instead look more closely at the overall numbers. If the digital product you’ve selected sells for $47, and you’re being paid 50% then you will earn $23.50 for each sale. The tangible product on the other hand might sell for $350. So even if you’re only earning 10% commission, that’s $35. More than $10 higher than you’ll get from the digital product.

Now, many affiliates mistakenly assume that no one will spend $350 for a product online. If you stop and think about this for a minute though you will realize that is simply untrue. Have you ever personally done your Christmas shopping online? Have you ever bought home improvement products? Have you ever gone to Amazon and bought many books all at once? Even if you personally have not, this is actually how most people do their shopping online.

If an avid golfer has his heart set on a certain type of golf clubs, there is an extremely good chance he will spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars buying those golf clubs. I personally have purchased thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment online. It’s not uncommon for me to spend a couple of hundred dollars at a time just on books at Amazon. I spent just under $2000 for a specific laptop computer that I wanted. My mother in law spends hundreds if not thousands of dollars each year online buying Christmas presents for the extended family.

These are not isolated occurrences. I have had websites selling various products online for years. And I have seen sales occur for $1200 chandeliers, as well as five dollar balls of yarn. The point is, people buy stuff online constantly. And it’s not unusual for them to spend a heck of a lot of money doing so. If you, as a professional affiliate marketer, have thousands of in demand products available for sale online, you will make money. Even if those products are only paying you 10 or 15% commission, because they are tangible customers will spend much more money for them. And more often than not they will not simply buy just one thing. Once they find a product they want to buy, they will often buy accessories and related items while they’re there. And as an affiliate, you earn commissions on the entire sale usually. And trust me when I say, this really adds up.

Now, promoting tangible products as an affiliate is very simple to do. The concept is actually the same as if you are promoting digital products. You identify a specific market, figure out what that market is looking to buy, and then get your own affiliate links in front of that market.

The most common approach to this is of course to create a website. So we’re going to go through a step-by-step process which will help you start making much more money from your affiliate promotions right away.

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