I was looking the results in the poll of this month Do You Most Want To Learn About….? And I saw that the most of the people voted that they want to learn more about Affiliate Marketing. Although the poll has not finished yet, I had decided to write a post about this topic, to feed some of my readers .

Meeting Market Leverage

Market Leverage is an affiliate program, as others like NeverblueAds or PepperJam, which you can make a lot of money by promoting services or products. Market Leverage is considerably new, but since October 2007 they are working on this area to give us the best campaigns in the affiliate marketing. The following one, is a screenshot of their main panel:

As you can see, it is very clean, and it offers the featured offers, news and updates… It is a very good panel where you can see what is hot in the market.

If you are a person who frequent blogs, perhaps you already noticed the Market Leverage banner in many blogs. And I mentioned their banner, because I want to make a little review about them:

As you can see it beside this text, it shows 3 main characteristics:

1. The Industry’s Highest Paying Publisher Rewards Program: MarketLeverage is giving away a lifetime referral bonus for each Publisher you refer to their network. You can earn (5%) five percent of the commission for each and every Publisher you refer that signs up as a MarketLeverage Publisher.
2. The Industry’s Highest Paying Lifetime Referral Program: MarketLeverage researched and reviewed the lifetime referral programs of every affiliate network that attended Affiliate Summit West 2008 and ad-tech San Francisco 2008. They could not find another affiliate network with a higher paying lifetime referral program publicly disclosed on their website.
3. All Payments Sent to Publishers Via FedEx: You don’t need to be stressed about where are your checks, if they are safe or not. With FedEx, you will received your payment wherever you want, and you don’t need to worry about it. Your money will be safe with this program!

I signed up to this program the last week, and some days later I received a call from them. They asked me some basic questions and after that I got approved without problems. I want to say that they provide a good support, they are very friendly and they are willing to help you with anything you need.

I consider the third feature very important in this program, which can motivate to many people to join them. Why? because when you talk about affiliate marketing, you are talking about great amounts of money. There are involved many things like referral commissions, sales commissions and lead commissions, and you will earn money constantly if you know how to promote their campaigns.

I think that they should offer PayPal as another payment method. Paypal has become the standard payment method for the most of the programs, but I think they don’t offer this because your account can be held (in PayPal) if you receive huge amounts of money… However, FedEx is great for me .

So if you hadn’t joined to Market Leverage, don’t wait more time and sign up now.

Sign up to Market Leverage

The most common Internet business is the affiliate marketing. Many entrepreneur and bloggers, use this Internet business to get an extra income. But many of them, don’t get a little income, by the contrary, they get huge commissions from these programs. Before to continue with this post, let’s read the meaning of affiliate marketing:

Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Source: Wikipedia

In other words, it is to promote other company’s products and services on your website. When a sale is made, you get a commission. Some advertisers offer multi-tier programs that distribute commission into a hierarchical referral network of sign-ups and sub-partners. Snowballing, this system rewards a chain of hierarchical publishers who may or may not know of each others’ existence, yet generate income for the higher level signup.

The affiliate programs can give you a great income. In fact, bloggers as John Chow, Zac Johnson or Darren Rowse, make thousand dollars a month with them, but the question is How they have that success? They are normal people like you and me, how can you get high incomes like them?

They make thousand dollars with these programs for a reason, their brand. Think about it, they are elite-bloggers, the top bloggers on their niche. When a new affiliate program is launched, they are the firsts testing it. So, they make a post reviewing the service, inviting to the people to join to the program with their referral link. A week later, they have hundred dollars just with all the people who joined to the program with their links.

It is very easy for them, because they don’t need to do anything. In addition of the post, they just place some banners in their blogs, as everybody does. A month later, their accounts are full of money cause by all these referred people. Easy isn’t it? The problem for the regular bloggers, is to catch all these people to join in the program under your name, with your referral link. Being a regular blogger, you will catch few people, I’m talking about 10~30 persons. As a elite-blogger, you will get hundred of people referred.

The difference between you and them, is the brand, that’s all! To get their popularity level, you need to be persistent, participate as much as you can in the social media networks and make friends as much as you can. I know that I have told you this before, but this is the key to be successful with your blog. Establishing your presence on the web will give you the credibility that you are looking for, attracting more and more people to your blog and signing up to these affiliate programs with your referral link.

I have to admit that I really don’t know the exactly key to be successful in these programs. I have referred many people to Pepperjam and Chitika for example, but I don’t have made thousand dollars as other does. That’s why I ended the title of this post with a question mark. If you think that I missed something or you consider that there’s another important factor besides the brand, please comment your idea here to share these information with me and all my visitors .