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For many people, affiliate marketing is a dream come true. It provides everything they are looking for in an online business.

What Is an Affiliate Marking?

Affiliate marketing is when you earn money promoting the products and services of others. Many companies have affiliate programs and as an affiliate marketer you sign up for their affiliate programs that fit your niche.

For example, if you have a website about homes and gardening then you would sign up for products and services related to things in the home. Each time one of your website visitors buys a product or service from a program that you are an affiliate for, you earn a commission.

Most programs pay a commission based on purchases. However, some pay simply you for for sending visitors to their website.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

As an affiliate marketer you will most likely have a theme based website and everything on your website will be devoted your niche topic. You will write content, create reports and information products and perhaps even create video or audio content. Within your content you will include links to the companies you promote as an affiliate.

For example, if you have a website devoted to keeping the home you may have an article on how to keep your home clean. Within the body of the article, where appropriate you would embed links to household product companies you’re an affiliate for.

You can also post affiliate banner ads on your website.

The Benefits and Drawbacks to Affiliate marketing

One of the biggest drawbacks to affiliate marketing is the vast amount of content you will need to create to promote products and services.

If you enjoy creating content it’s a great business model. If you’re not interested in having your own customers or managing shopping carts and online stores, then affiliate marketing is perfect.

As an affiliate marketer you can work on your own schedule and your business doesn’t suffer for it.  You can also create a bulk of your content in advance and use technology to schedule and deliver it while you’re doing something else.

Affiliate Marketing requires minimal startup and offers the opportunity to earn.

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When deciding upon an online business model, information marketing is a great option. For many, information marketing is the ideal business.

What is Information Marketing?

Information marketing is when you create and sell information on a niche topic. While many people consider information products to be ebooks there is much more to the  products you can create and sell.

Information products can be:

-Checklists to help a customer keep track of niche tasks.

-Video demonstrations showing how-to for your niche.

-Workbooks that go through the tasks of your niche (for example keeping the home).

-Courses. You can create and sell a course through email or on CD.

-Audio files. You can interview experts and compile the information on books or in audios to sell.

-And of course there are ebooks. You can create these products independently or as a group of products to support each other.

The choice is really yours and depends largely on your topic and your audience.

Benefits of Information Marketing

Information Marketing is a great business venture because you can reap the financial rewards of your expertise for a long time to come. Your single information product might sell as well three years from now as it does tomorrow. You can often maintain an information marketing business with only a few hours each week. Additionally, even if you’re not interested in creating information products you can find great PLR products or you can hire a contractor to create the products for you.

Finally, information products work well to supplement other business models. Many entrepreneurs use information products to add credibility to their business or to boost profits.

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So you have chosen a business niche, and chances are you’re now contemplating your business model. This can feel overwhelming. There are a number of business models to choose from. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages.

Before you decide, consider the following questions:

1. How much time do you have to devote to your business?

The amount of time you have is critical to your business model decision. For example, if you decide to be provide a service then you’re going to need a lot of time to provide that service. If you only have five hours a week you’re going to have to charge a high premium for your time (and do your best work during that time). Depending on your niche topic that may or may not be possible.

Affiliate marketing, information marketing, and even membership marketing don’t have to consume vast amounts of time. If you’re short on time these models may be a better fit for you.

1. Do you want customers?

I know this seems like a strange question right? If you’re in business then you’re going to have customers. But that is actually not necessarily the case.  In the case of affiliate marketers they don’t have customers. An affiliate marketer earns a living by promoting the products and services of others. You have website visitors, but no customers to manage or maintain. They are directed to someone else and becomes their customers.

On the other hand a business that sells a product or a servicewill have customers. That includes information marketers and membership marketers.

3. What fits your personality?

Some business models lend themselves to introverts. If you’re shy or prefer to keep to yourself then becoming a service provider might not be the best fit for you. However, affiliate marketing or information marketing can work for you. It is important to pay attention to what business model best fits you. It will make starting and growing your business much easier.

Finally, spend some time considering how you can best solve your customers problems. For example, if you’re going to create a business on the topic of learning to sew you might…

* Create an information product

* Provide information/content and become an affiliate marketer

The business model you choose can then be chosen based on your answer to the questions posed earlier.

Your business model is an essential ingredient to the success and fulfillment you find as an online business owner.