Website Or No Website ... That is the question

Do you want to make money on the Internet, but you do not have enough experience and capital base for your own online business? You need not to worry, for a variety of online marketing options exist for you to get started. One of those options, and dare I say, the best is affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing provides first time online marketers like you the possibility of selling something in the Internet market, even without your own product. Everything you need to do is to familiarize yourself with an affiliate marketing program that comes usually from an online merchant or retailer, and you start picking the products you want to promote. As a partner you will be paid by the merchant for your services on a commission basis, that is, if you are a visitor directed to your web site and the visitor actually buys something.

Become a partner in an affiliate marketing program is often quick and easy, and for most affiliate programs, signing up is free. But despite these and all the benefits that are promised by affiliate programs, many people are still reluctant to get into affiliate marketing. One of the reasons why many people remain hesitant is the lack of a website to start marketing his affiliate products. This leads us to the question of whether a website is required or necessary in affiliate marketing or not.

Many people say that one can do affiliate marketing even without a website to start with. Actually, you can really start promoting and marketing his affiliate products even without a website, and there are a lot of ways this can be done. May exist, in fact, many affiliate marketing strategies that leads to success, without actually need a website. Among these strategies are email marketing, offline promotions, writing e-books, writing ezines and in online discussions like forums, chats, message boards, and others.

* E-Mail Marketing

E-mail marketing, e-mail lists and maintain, is actually the most popular affiliate marketing strategy that is not the Affiliate is required to maintain a website. In this affiliate marketing strategy, what you are doing is basically a list of e-mail advertisements to maintain your potential customers and provide them with items associated with the affiliate products and programs you are promoting is important. Items that you provide your contacts with need not always be promotional, for many people, these types of e-mail find annoying. Rather, it would be better if you have something informative and just add small text ads on your site merchant.

* Offline Promotion

There are many ways to promote your affiliate products offline. Classified to the common medium used for such actions are ads, brochures and flyers. Classifieds generally better compared to the other two, because classifieds in magazines often get a wider audience.

* Writing Free e-Books

If you have a talent to write to write an e-book is the best way to promote your affiliate products in the absence of an actual website. Just like in emails and newsletters, your readers would better appreciate your e-book, if it were not for advertising, but informative. Make sure you do, but on the content of your e-books, based on the actual affiliate products you promote. And just like in the e-mail marketing, you can just place text ads or banners somewhere near the end of your e-book, which links to the website of the merchant.

* Writing Free Ezines

Ezines are publications or articles which aim to educate individuals about a particular topic to be informed. If you do not have a website and want to be partners, you can also use ezines to promote your affiliate products or to insert links to your merchant site. If you have a website, your article really content for your ezine and website. But since you have no website, you can just submit your free ezine articles to various websites that hosts ezines, like goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and others.

* Online discussions (forums, chats, forums, etc.)

With or without a website, you can not ignore online discussions because they were great venues for marketing your affiliate products are. In includes chats, forums, message boards and discussion forums with topics on your products, you can easily find people who might be with the products that you promote interest.

With all these strategies can, it seems that you really do not need to launch a Web site that its affiliate marketing products and its affiliate programs to promote. Well, starting in an affiliate program without a website can be easy, but always successful in affiliate marketing without a website is another matter. While one really enormous success in affiliate marketing can win, even without a website, is a rare case that "newbies" like you can achieve the same level of success.

Having a website is not really a precondition for entering into an affiliate program, unless otherwise the program will require the owner, you would have one. But if that is so, I would still recommend that you have a website, if not now, then maybe at a later date. Having a website creates a lot of advantages in affiliate marketing. First, it offers a place where you can creatively promote not only one of your affiliate products but all of your affiliate products. With a website you can also advertise your affiliate products to a wider market.

Even with a Web site is not necessary in affiliate marketing. But with the benefits it can provide a site that I would prefer one for me and makes affiliate marketing a lot easier for me.