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Starting an Internet Business with No Capital

With these tough economic times we are seeing today, it is no wonder that everyone is feeling the pinch and worried about the future.  Anyone’s job could be lost at any time.  What better way to prepare yourself for the future than starting an internet business to supplement your income.

Now, the problem now becomes one of what type of business can be started with little or no capital outlay on your part.  Most internet businesses require the building of a web site, the development of a product or product line, the collection of payments for the product and the delivery of the product to the customer.  All of these parts require capital to get set up and started.  However, there is one type of business that can be created with little or no capital.  That business is affiliate marketing. 

In affiliate marketing, the only thing that needs to be accomplished is to become an affiliate partner with a vendor who has a product or service that you would like to promote.  The vendor has the web site to sell the product, to take payment from the customer, to deliver the product to the customer, and to track sales to the affiliate marketer to whom the vendor pays commissions.  So, the effort on the part of the affiliate marketer is to drive traffic to the vendor’s site or product page.

Okay, but how can an affiliate marketer promote the product without any capital? Well, this can be accomplished by writing articles about the product that is being promoted and submitting those articles to article directories.  Anyone who has a basic command of the English language and can use a word processor that can help out with grammar and spelling can create articles.  This is where the effort lies on your part — creating articles.  Please remember that success does not come from lack of effort, but the effort does not have to cost anything but time on your part.

The basic process is the create and article that will direct the reader to a free blog or Squidoo lens that you have built that will showcase the product of services that your are promoting.  The blog or lens will have direct links to the affiliate product.  The reason it is done this way is that many of the article directories will not allow a direct link to an affiliate page in their articles.  However, by building a blog or lens that directly relates to the product or service you are promoting, you will have a greater chance of making a sale.   By creating a blog you can also change the format and images that will make your product stand out.

Affiliate Marketing

How can we define affiliate marketing? The single fastest growth industry on the Internet is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and most creative ways to build financial independence and have a career on the internet.

Profiting from Affiliate Marketing

If you’d like to make money online, one of the easiest ways to do so is with affiliate marketing networks. While affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make profits online, that can seem overwhelming, especially for a beginner.

Affiliate Marketing vs. Drop Shipping: Which Is Best For You?

With the pending release of Niche Blueprint by Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton, there’s suddenly a lot of interest in the Drop Shipping model of setting up an online business. If you’re not familiar with Niche Blueprint you can find out what all the excitement is about by clicking here.

If you’ve looked into making money from home online you’re no doubt familiar with Affiliate Marketing. The attractions of affiliate marketing are: the ease with which you can start earning money quickly, and, the simplicity of the business model.

You can sign up for most affiliate programs, such as Clickbank, within a few minutes. Then, using Pay Per Click ads, you can drive traffic to the Vendor’s sales page and receive a commission for every purchaser who arrives at the sales page through your ad.

At the end of the month you receive your commission check. This is the simplest model, and you can make it more complex if you choose.

 For example, you can create a Review Website and recommend several products for affiliate commissions. You can optimize the website to rank high in the search engine results for specific keywords, and reduce or eliminate your Pay Per Click ads.

There are currently more than 100,000 affiliates who are registered with Clickbank, and more than 10,000 products available to promote. Many people make part time extra income as affiliates, and some make a terrific income using the affiliate model.

Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton released Commission Blueprint last summer, and taught thousands of clients how to make full time incomes as affiliate marketers.

Now, these two successful partners are collaborating again on Niche Blueprint, an entirely new program that also shows you how to successfully make money from home with an online business. This time the business model is based on drop shipping.

Drop shipping has been used for quite a few years by small retailers. They display sample items, and then, when a customer makes a purchase, the wholesaler ships the product directly to the customer. Recently, this model has become more popular with online entrepreneurs who set up online retail sites, or even sell through eBay.

With drop shipping, as with affiliate marketing, you don’t have to handle any products. In both cases your business success rests on your efforts to market products.

With drop shipping however, you have more presence in the transaction, as a seller or retailer. You collect the money from the customer and, in turn, pay the wholesaler or manufacturer, often with a credit card.

The biggest risk in this is that the product will “back order”. In other words the wholesaler will not have the product available for immediate shipment. This leaves you, as the seller, responsible for handling the customer service challenge in such situations.

Obviously, your success as a merchant depends very much on the reliability of your “drop shippers.”

One of the advantages of the Niche Blueprint program is that it connects you with the most reliable wholesalers in the industry. This is a great advantage right out of the gate.

Now, add to that the thorough educational components, both video and manuals, and the website templates that come as part of the complete, Niche Blueprint, start-up package, and it’s easy to see that Niche Blueprint will pay for itself very quickly. Not only will you save weeks of valuable time getting your business running, you’ll start earning money much sooner from your own, online, drop-shipping site.

To find out about the entire Niche Blueprint complete business start-up package go to Niche Blueprint Reviews.