Affiliate marketing is a wonderful opportunity for holistic professionals to market products that relate to their expertise or niche; and the best part is that these programs are free. For instance if you are a massage therapist you could teach self massage techniques and sell the tools to do self massage on your site or in your monthly newsletter.
The possibilities go on forever! If you do energy work or hypnosis there are many relaxation and mediation aids that have great affiliate programs. if you are a fitness instructor and you want to help people lose weight you can find natural herbal cleanses, ebooks on healthy diet and more to help people with the process. or you can write your knowledge down and sell it as an ebook on your own one page mini site that is easy to set up.
Did you know you can sell everything from a Sierra club hiking membership to bridal gowns to e-books at Linkshare.com without ever seeing the products?
Just by referring people from your site to the specific items that you trust and believe in companies are willing to pay you a percentage of what they earn. Using affiliate tracking software they are able to credit your account. They often supple banners, graphics and landing pages or you can simply write articles, pdf files, like my free Ebook Ten tools to Automate your Business, or newsletters informing people about the products.
There are hundreds of trusted, well known, name brands that will pay you a percentage to recommend their products on your site.
Through selling affiliate products that relate to your interest and developing your own e-book, service or seminar you can begin to create passive income without working a lot of hours.
www.associateprograms.com Is a great resource for finding affiliate programs and ideas on how to market.
Clickbank offers hundreds of e-books on every topic as well as easy set up to sell your own e-books. You can simply sign up for an account with clickbank, upload your files and give them your pay pal info. They will help you set up a sales page to sell your own items. This way your product is listed in a specific category so other marketers can sell it on their site and receive a percentage of the profits. To get an idea of what to write just sign up as an affiliate and take a look at all the e-books available.
Honest Affiliate Training
Wealthy Affiliate offers Clear concise training modules. Nuts and bolt of using other peoples products that relate to your business or niche to bring in income. how to find products, how to build sites and landing pages and how to get traffic to your site. Great support forum and more for only $29 per month. The owners are very available and open to suggestions. videos don’t stream very well yet but still this is worth the money if you want to learn the basics of online marketing.
Holly Mann affiliate marketing Shero
After an honorable discharge from the military the 19 year old took her son to Thailand and created her online business.
Barbara Ling has 20 years experience in the field and has 3 books for different levels and lots of great ideas on her blog.