Hi ya,

As I understand it, affiliate marketing can offer good returns to an Internet marketer.

I just wondered if you have considered the more conventional ways of making the affiliate dollars. Here's what I mean:

1) You find a market niche of folks who are able and willing to pay for products/services.
2) You create offers and drive traffic to those offers by ppc, free traffic methods, web2.0 methods etc.
3) You build a database list of prospective buyers and market to them over and over again, all the while building up trust and a good relationship with them.


I figure online marketing requires you to get good at a few things:
a) Get the traffic to your offer and/or get the offer in front of prospective buyers (e.g. via a web2.0 platform).
b) "Persuade" the traffic to perform a most desired behavior - This most desired behavior could be:

i) Opt in to your email list

ii) Enter a zip code or request more information (e.g. CPA offers)

iii) Click on a link (e.g. pay per lead or Adsense)

iv) For those with great copywriting traffic conversion skills, you can persuade such traffic to buy the product

c) Set in place a system to repeat the process over and over again.

Anyways, this is how I; as a noob, understand it to be for affiliate marketing.

Would be great to hear what other folks have to say cos we're all here to learn.

Cheerio