One of the things that I have learned is that affiliate marketing is really good for generating subscribers, subscribers who are buyers. That might seem crazy – you might think that you would do an affiliate program so you can make more money, but that is really not the case.

Do the numbers – after you pay commissions, and your merchant account – and your refunds, etc. – you have what, 10% left? And you had to sell 10 times what you could have for the same profit, if you had sold to your list.

Don’t have a list? Build one. Or use your affiliate program to build it for you. That is where the real money is.

I did some statistics on my site the other day. My average subscriber is worth $4.60 to me (and that goes up every month), but my average buyer is worth $22.60 – that is huge. So if I set up an affiliate program and let them have 100% of the commission on my entry level product – I still make $22.60 per subscriber/buyer on the backend – that makes it worth it to me.

So why don’t I have an affiliate program yet? I just haven’t had the motivation to get it together. I have 7 products and 4 new ones on the way – and just don’t want to mess with an affiliate program right now.

But the thing is, if you are just getting started, and need traffic, come up with an affiliate program and get your subscribers that way.

By the way, if you are still at a loss for traffic – try article marketing – it works for me – and I get tons of traffic from the articles I write.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.