IT Milk: entry

In this post, I’m going to borrow an idea expressed in Coopreme’s blog about becoming an exclusive affiliate. I always had this idea rolling in my head, but it didn’t surface until Coopreme’s words solidified it.

Now I’m not about to say that I qualify for that realm but I would like to talk about becoming a different type of affiliate (one that could possibly lead to becoming a Super Affiliate), the Exclusive Affiliate. Being an exclusive affiliate means to either be a businesses only affiliate or to capture a percentage of every sale, of course the latter is the greater.

You become an exclusive affiliate by approaching a local business and saying the following:

• I will place your business online and set up a fully functional e-commerce site
• I will market your website to compete in the dog-eat-dog world of internet retailers
• In exchange, as the one and only affiliate, I will take a fair portion of all sales generated by your online store

This is a win-win situation for both you and the local business. For you, this deal…

• Offers a stable work contract with someone whom you can work with on a personal level
• Is a potentially lucrative deal in the long run
• Can give you a lot of useful work experience in various niches of internet marketing
• Possibly offer unique products in the online marketplace

On the other hand, for the business, this gives them a cheaper and more reliable way to get a website along with SEO and PPC services. Plus, they only have to pay you (aside from a base fee) on a performance basis.

I love this idea because there are so many opportunities wherever you live in the country. I’d find as many opportunities to become an exclusive affiliate whether I’m in small-town Stroudsburg or a big city like Chicago. There are a countless number of local stores that are willing to get into the whole internet e-commerce thing, but they don’t want to pay thousands of dollars up front towards a mysterious technology which they don’t understand. It is also the exclusive affiliate’s job to help educate and transition them to this new business front.