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How to Make Money With Reseller Programs

Reseller programs (also called affiliate or associate programs) are an exciting way for website owners to earn cash.

These pay-per-sale programs are often amazingly easy to join. After carefully reading the terms and conditions, which vary from program to program, you provide a banner ad, small graphic or ordinary link from your site or newsletter to the vendor. If someone follows the link and buys a product or service from the business, you receive a commission.

If you already have a busy site and the product is attractive to your visitors, you should start earning money straight away. If you have a new, low-traffic site, you need to promote your site before you can make these programs work for you. Experienced webmasters suggest that you need at least 500 unique visitors a day to make reasonable money from a web site.

Here's a list of associate programs you can join. Make sure you pick programs that are attractive to your target audience.

Name/Link to affiliate signup	Product Type	Payment per sale	Levels
BizMove.com (our own)	The Managing a Small Business CD-ROM	$20 (40%)	Single tier
Site buildit! and other Ken Evoy products	range of info products + automated site building	Varies	Lifetime 2-tier
Commission Junction Click Here	A directory of affiliate programs, more than 1500 programs to choose from	Varies	Varies
Corey Rudl's The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet	Best selling hardcover Internet marketing course	$65 a sale and $20 in the 2nd tier.	2-tier
Six Figure Income	Marketing network	$10 a month per personal sign up	Multi levels
Marlon Sanders The Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy	Internet marketing guide	40$ a sale (60%)	Single tier
Mike Enlow's Masters of Marketing	Membership to Inner Circle of master marketer Mike Enlow.	$200 per personal sale.	2-tier. Earn $50 per 2nd tier sale
Virtualis	High quality Web hosting services	10% to 30%	2-tier.
Winning the Affiliate Game	Declan Dunn's guide to making money with affiliate programs	25%	2-tier.
UMS - Ultimate Marketing Secrets	Hundreds of dollars of software, marketing help, reprint rights.	$5 a signup, 7 levels deep	multi-level
Internet Marketing Challenge	private membership marketing help site	35%