http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/from-adsense-to-affiliate-links/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:59:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/from-adsense-to-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-15049 How Do Bloggers Earn Money Online? — Earn Money Online with Brandon Hopkins Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:13:13 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/?p=399#comment-15049 [...] Affiliate marketing has never really been something that I’ve cared for.  Why should I sell your product and get 50% of the earnings when I could create my own product and keep 100% of the earnings, then hire affiliate marketers to sell the product and give them 50% and keep 50% after doing nothing?  Well, the truth is that creating that product and marketing it is a very difficult task.  Your product needs to stand out among other similar products, then you need either a large list, or a way to get the word out to a lot of people.  Definitely not as easy as it sounds. [...] [...] Affiliate marketing has never really been something that I’ve cared for.  Why should I sell your product and get 50% of the earnings when I could create my own product and keep 100% of the earnings, then hire affiliate marketers to sell the product and give them 50% and keep 50% after doing nothing?  Well, the truth is that creating that product and marketing it is a very difficult task.  Your product needs to stand out among other similar products, then you need either a large list, or a way to get the word out to a lot of people.  Definitely not as easy as it sounds. [...]

]]> http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/from-adsense-to-affiliate-links/comment-page-1/#comment-7275 Jonathan@Friends&Money Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:20:23 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/?p=399#comment-7275 You make some fair points about Adsense revenue. I agree that part of promoting products effectively is about actively selling them to visitors and being able to describe the benefits that they will receive. However the beauty of adsense in it's defence is that it automates the process of selling on larger sites, which means that affiliate links never go out of date. This can be a real help if you are running a site with 400+ pages of content You make some fair points about Adsense revenue. I agree that part of promoting products effectively is about actively selling them to visitors and being able to describe the benefits that they will receive. However the beauty of adsense in it’s defence is that it automates the process of selling on larger sites, which means that affiliate links never go out of date. This can be a real help if you are running a site with 400+ pages of content

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