Comments on: Is Affiliate Marketing Oversaturated? http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:57:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cawwade http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2019 cawwade Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:03:27 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2019 By: Jeff http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2013 Jeff Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:53:26 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2013 Yes, you need to file a 1099 for each affiliate making over $600. This way the government knows how much they can claim. Yes, you need to file a 1099 for each affiliate making over $600. This way the government knows how much they can claim.

]]> By: drtooty5 http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2006 drtooty5 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:15:17 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2006 No! I am just getting started so make some room for me! I love money and money loves me -this is so worth it! Glad I found your videos. You are right on-time because I have have been searching for an extra source of income to work at home; I downloaded your ebook yesterday; gotta say you spell it out very easy to understand. Question: do I need to set up a dba (doing business as) and/or a business bank account before I start as an Affiliate?. Thank you so much for being here. ~Peace~ No! I am just getting started so make some room for me! I love money and money loves me -this is so worth it! Glad I found your videos. You are right on-time because I have have been searching for an extra source of income to work at home; I downloaded your ebook yesterday; gotta say you spell it out very easy to understand. Question: do I need to set up a dba (doing business as) and/or a business bank account before I start as an Affiliate?. Thank you so much for being here. ~Peace~

]]> By: chell http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2017 chell Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:34:05 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2017 itisallforsale.com is a good name choice and covers many items that you may carry. You may want to jump on this one fast before someone else does. I just now checked and it is available. itisallforsale.com is a good name choice and covers many items that you may carry. You may want to jump on this one fast before someone else does. I just now checked and it is available.

]]> By: lisa3876 http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2008 lisa3876 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:21:09 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2008 What a nice compliment. THANK YOU and good luck to you! :) What a nice compliment. THANK YOU and good luck to you! :)

]]> By: Jmo http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2016 Jmo Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:45:10 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2016 The pros are that you will have others helping you sell your products and then you normally only pay them once they have sold the item so you can't really loose out on that part of it. The cons are that there is quite alot of work involved and you have to advertising your affiliate program just like a site to get affiliates interested in signing up. It's not an easy task running an affiliate program, but you can let 3rd party networks take most of your workload of you by paying them a little extra so that they can practically run it and help get affiliates for you. Just in case you are wondering where to get software then there is some of the best affiliate tracking software listed at: http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-software/1.html The ShareASale listing in that link that I have just given you is a very good network that will help you get affiliates and will manage most of the affiliate program for you. You are also able to set up datafeeds, allow lifetime commissions, pay per sale, click, lead, etc. That is a very good and reputable network. I'm an affiliate over there, but there has also been a lot of good stuff that their merchants have said to. Hope this helped you out a little further in your decision on what to do. Good luck anyway. The pros are that you will have others helping you sell your products and then you normally only pay them once they have sold the item so you can't really loose out on that part of it.

The cons are that there is quite alot of work involved and you have to advertising your affiliate program just like a site to get affiliates interested in signing up. It's not an easy task running an affiliate program, but you can let 3rd party networks take most of your workload of you by paying them a little extra so that they can practically run it and help get affiliates for you.

Just in case you are wondering where to get software then there is some of the best affiliate tracking software listed at: http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-software/1.html

The ShareASale listing in that link that I have just given you is a very good network that will help you get affiliates and will manage most of the affiliate program for you. You are also able to set up datafeeds, allow lifetime commissions, pay per sale, click, lead, etc.

That is a very good and reputable network. I'm an affiliate over there, but there has also been a lot of good stuff that their merchants have said to.

Hope this helped you out a little further in your decision on what to do.

Good luck anyway.

]]> By: Dan E http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2014 Dan E Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:11 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2014 Don't go by what other people are saying. You will get different types of feedbacks based on different types of beleives rather they are true or false. 99 percent of the feedbacks from people, are from people who have not been affiliated. I personally have not been affiliated with this business. Using my business as an example, here's a few things that you should take a look at before getting involved in any company. 1. How long have they been in business? We checked to see how long our company was around, at the time it was nine years old and now it's 15. Do you know when they started? 2. Are they registered with the BBB. Ours is registered. I think this is important one. 3. Who's involved with the company? Like in ours Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki has endorsed our company. Check to see if anyone has endorsed this company. Also, meet with the co-founders. We've personally met our co-founders and found from our first meeting that they were incredible people with incredible visions. See if their's a time where you can meet them. If your going to be doing business, there should be a time where you should have the chance to meet with them. 4. What is the compensation plan now, and what was it like before. See the history of the comp plan and see if increases and never decreases in it's history. We checked with the records in our business and found that in over the years, the compensation plan had only gotten better each year. As long as we've been involved, we've now witnessed the compensation plan always increasing. Check the history on yours. 5.Have they been featured in magazine's? For instance our company has been featured in several magazines Like Success, Fortune, USA Today etc. Check to see if they have. You can get a lot of information on the company by reading about them. 6. Has Inc 500 rated them? This magazine or slit rated our company the 22nd fastest growing company in revenue in it's first 5 years. Inc 500 shows the top 500 businesses in revenue growth. Check to see what Inc 500 rated the company your looking at. 7. Do they have a physical address that you can go to? Check for an address not just a P.O. Box 8. Where are their headquarters? Our world headquarters is in Farmington Hills Michigan, Personally been there, (If your here in the states) Other headquarters in different countries. and US headquarters in Charlotte. 9. What does the start up cost take care of? In my business headquarters takes care of all the billing for my customers, Inventory, Customer services, Order Entry, Employees, workman's comp, Cross referencing, Licensing, Insurance, paperwork, accounts payables, accounts receivables etc. 10. What is the product and service you would be selling. Is the product and service in high demand? For instance we offer services that people are already using every day and paying for anyway, but at a lower cost. Things like Local and Long distance telephone services, Internet, video phones, digital phones, cellular phones through all the major cellular providers. We make a percentage every single month they pay their bills. Everyone uses them and everyone pays for them. When money gets tight, would they keep your service or be able to run to the store and be able to purchase them on sale? Leaving you to have to wait until they run out of what they just purchased, or wait until their finances get settled? This is what I mean by high demand. So many different things to check out in making sure a business is a good one to get involved in. If the business feels right to you, and all questions are answered with proof, then I'd say jump in. Running a business is different then a job though. You have to treat it like it's your child and not just something your going to "try" you have to believe in the product and service and go at it full force. This is your future your talking about, no one else's. I hope my examples of what we looking into with our business helps you be able to find the same answers in your business. Forget about asking the common question and asking someone how much they make in their business to determine if you'd get involved in ISI or not. In a business, it doesn't matter what one business is making over another. It only matters what you do in "YOUR" business. I hate it when people ask me how much I make. Because they're not going to walk into and start up their business making what I make. I've been involved with my business for over six years. So yeah, I will make more. If you tell someone how much you make, then it's a psychological thing that they expect to make that amount in a week, and that is just not going to happen. Six years of building a business verses 1 day. So don't even ask. Look at the possibilities for YOURSELF. Hope this helps! If you have any questions,feel free to email me at kaiden4@aol.com Don't go by what other people are saying. You will get different types of feedbacks based on different types of beleives rather they are true or false. 99 percent of the feedbacks from people, are from people who have not been affiliated. I personally have not been affiliated with this business. Using my business as an example, here's a few things that you should take a look at before getting involved in any company.
1. How long have they been in business? We checked to see how long our company was around, at the time it was nine years old and now it's 15. Do you know when they started?
2. Are they registered with the BBB. Ours is registered. I think this is important one.
3. Who's involved with the company? Like in ours Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki has endorsed our company. Check to see if anyone has endorsed this company. Also, meet with the co-founders. We've personally met our co-founders and found from our first meeting that they were incredible people with incredible visions. See if their's a time where you can meet them. If your going to be doing business, there should be a time where you should have the chance to meet with them.
4. What is the compensation plan now, and what was it like before.
See the history of the comp plan and see if increases and never decreases in it's history. We checked with the records in our business and found that in over the years, the compensation plan had only gotten better each year. As long as we've been involved, we've now witnessed the compensation plan always increasing. Check the history on yours.
5.Have they been featured in magazine's? For instance our company has been featured in several magazines Like Success, Fortune, USA Today etc. Check to see if they have. You can get a lot of information on the company by reading about them.
6. Has Inc 500 rated them? This magazine or slit rated our company the 22nd fastest growing company in revenue in it's first 5 years. Inc 500 shows the top 500 businesses in revenue growth. Check to see what Inc 500 rated the company your looking at.
7. Do they have a physical address that you can go to? Check for an address not just a P.O. Box
8. Where are their headquarters? Our world headquarters is in Farmington Hills Michigan, Personally been there, (If your here in the states) Other headquarters in different countries. and US headquarters in Charlotte.
9. What does the start up cost take care of? In my business headquarters takes care of all the billing for my customers, Inventory, Customer services, Order Entry, Employees, workman's comp, Cross referencing, Licensing, Insurance, paperwork, accounts payables, accounts receivables etc.
10. What is the product and service you would be selling.
Is the product and service in high demand? For instance we offer services that people are already using every day and paying for anyway, but at a lower cost. Things like Local and Long distance telephone services, Internet, video phones, digital phones, cellular phones through all the major cellular providers. We make a percentage every single month they pay their bills. Everyone uses them and everyone pays for them. When money gets tight, would they keep your service or be able to run to the store and be able to purchase them on sale? Leaving you to have to wait until they run out of what they just purchased, or wait until their finances get settled? This is what I mean by high demand.
So many different things to check out in making sure a business is a good one to get involved in. If the business feels right to you, and all questions are answered with proof, then I'd say jump in. Running a business is different then a job though. You have to treat it like it's your child and not just something your going to "try" you have to believe in the product and service and go at it full force. This is your future your talking about, no one else's.
I hope my examples of what we looking into with our business helps you be able to find the same answers in your business. Forget about asking the common question and asking someone how much they make in their business to determine if you'd get involved in ISI or not. In a business, it doesn't matter what one business is making over another. It only matters what you do in "YOUR" business. I hate it when people ask me how much I make. Because they're not going to walk into and start up their business making what I make. I've been involved with my business for over six years. So yeah, I will make more. If you tell someone how much you make, then it's a psychological thing that they expect to make that amount in a week, and that is just not going to happen. Six years of building a business verses 1 day. So don't even ask. Look at the possibilities for YOURSELF.
Hope this helps! If you have any questions,feel free to email me at kaiden4@aol.com

]]> By: CanadianRockerGuy http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2004 CanadianRockerGuy Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:26:40 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2004 Hi Lisa! Just wanted to say I really appreciate your honest, straightforward, and extremely informative advice and vast knowledge pertaining to running your own website(s), Excellent communication in your videos Lisa, you really rock girl! Thank you so much!! Hope have a great summer too! :) Hi Lisa! Just wanted to say I really appreciate your honest, straightforward, and extremely informative advice and vast knowledge pertaining to running your own website(s), Excellent communication in your videos Lisa, you really rock girl! Thank you so much!! Hope have a great summer too! :)

]]> By: lisa3876 http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2005 lisa3876 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:28 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2005 No you don't. As long as you provide your SSN and report your earnings under your own SSN during tax time then there is no need for one. I wouldn't worry about getting one until you start making some substantial money. Then you may want to but it's not necessary. No you don’t. As long as you provide your SSN and report your earnings under your own SSN during tax time then there is no need for one. I wouldn’t worry about getting one until you start making some substantial money. Then you may want to but it’s not necessary.

]]> By: AtheistDonation http://www.55laguna.com/is-affiliate-marketing-oversaturated.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2010 AtheistDonation Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:22:23 +0000 http://5xg.org/3/?p=4#comment-2010 Great video! I know what you say is true from my own experience. You make a lot more money than I do, but I spent about three hours over two years ago on a site which has been paying for itself and my whole hosting package plus a profit since then. I have not done another minutes work on that site and it still makes money today with adsense. Now I am getting into it more seriously and I don't doubt for a second whether I will succeed simply for the reasons you have mentioned! Great video! I know what you say is true from my own experience. You make a lot more money than I do, but I spent about three hours over two years ago on a site which has been paying for itself and my whole hosting package plus a profit since then. I have not done another minutes work on that site and it still makes money today with adsense. Now I am getting into it more seriously and I don’t doubt for a second whether I will succeed simply for the reasons you have mentioned!

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