If you've been trying to make money online by promoting affiliate products and programs, you may have realized by now that it's not quite as easy as it might first appear.
However, affiliate programs can be quite lucrative and they’re a wonderful online business choice for anyone who does not want to have to deal with providing customer support, shipping and handling, stock ordering.
Now if you’re like most people who are new to affiliate programs, you probably got your “feet wet” by promoting digital products as an affiliate.
Selling digital products through a place such as Click Bank is definitely the easiest way to get started online.
You don't have to wait to be approved by each merchant and once you start earning money you'll receive a commission check every two weeks.
The commissions are actually quite high for digital products as well. It's not uncommon for affiliates to earn as much as 75% for each sale.
What you need to realize though is that there are millions of other products which you can promote as an affiliate.
Most of the general public who uses the internet are unfamiliar with digital products. Technically, they usually understand software to some small extent.
But the concept of the digital ebook is still quite new to them. And it's because of this, that sometimes selling a digital product is actually much harder to do.
To make the most money as an affiliate online you need to promote products which people are already looking to buy.
Click Bank is just one of many options for promoting affiliate products, but it is by far the most popular.
And nine times out of 10 the general public is looking to buy real products instead of digital ones. Real products are those which need to be shipped.
These are also referred to as tangible products because the customer actually has something they can touch once they've received it.
In the coming chapters you will learn how you can easily promote these products by “drop shipping” and earn huge affiliate income without ever having to worry about stock, handling or customer support.
