If you are new to internet marketing, you will eventually need a web hosting service. Even if you do not know how to design a website, you will want to pick your own domain name to promote your business. If you joined a program that provides you with a “website” to promote, the affiliate URL is generally lengthy and looks amateurish. It is YOUR business. YOU acquired the rights to resell the website business products or services you purchased. Rename the URL to give the site YOUR own identity. To maximize your marketing and recruiting efforts, you will want to promote a professional looking domain name, not an affiliate URL for your main business or program. Most web hosting services allow you to choose and forward your domain name to another URL.
And if you are presently using a hosting service that does not offer affiliate commissions, I would strongly recommend that you switch to a hosting service that does. Many of the web hosting services will help you transfer your domain name, files, databases, etc. from your existing hosting company to theirs for little or no costs to you.
There are many web hosting services that offer affiliate programs. Global Domains International (GDI) and HostGator are two companies offering hosting services that I would highly recommend using. (I have accounts with both.) They both offer basic web hosting and additional services such as choosing your own domain name, domain forwarding, email addresses, etc. However, one distinct difference with the affiliate commissions to note is that GDI pays you 5 levels deep on referrals were as HostGator pays you a commission per each referral. This means with GDI, you get paid on your referrals, referrals and so on, up to 5 levels. (Please take the time to read each company monthly fees, services offered and commission structure, as you would do with any affiliate program you would enter).
As in any business, not just in an internet marketing business, you are looking to increase your bottom line. Your objective is to have minimal amount of expenses and maximum amount of generated revenue, when ever possible. A web hosting account is a vital part of running your internet business. Doesn’t it make sense to off-set the monthly hosting fee if you have the opportunity to receive affiliate commissions from the very company you are using? In many cases, just two or three sign-ups will cover your monthly hosting fee. With the variety of marketing tools you are presently using, it is very easy to promote your affiliate hosting site along with your other programs, with little effort or extra expense. If you have a list, use it. If you have joined several safe lists, use them. You’ve already paid your monthly; yearly (or lifetime) fee’s to join, anyway. Or write one more article or blog like I’m doing. It’s free advertising.
And don’t just stop promoting after you have your 2 or 3 sign-ups. If your marketing efforts are working, keep your daily or weekly ritual of promoting ongoing. Remember what I said, your objective in your business is to keep expenses to a minimum and generate the maximum amount of revenue. Who cares where your revenue is coming from… its revenue, especially, if it is passive revenue from the efforts of your referrals.
To maximum profits,
Steven Brubaker
www.workathome-cmps.com
(Steven Brubaker is an avid work at home Certified Media Placement Specialists. For more information on the web hosting services he recommended in this article, please visit GDI or HostGator)
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