Many aspiring entrepreneurs look for a way to break into the world of Internet marketing. Well, the fastest and best way to online success by far is Affiliate Marketing. Wikipedia defines Affiliate Marketing as “a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.” Even though this definition needs no further clarification, I’m eager to state a few words.

The author and astute businessman Charles Haanel once said “You make money by making friends and you enlarge your circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service…” This in my opinion sums up the core of what Affiliate Marketing is all about. Each successful entrepreneur of the past did just this.  Our current business leaders in every industry apply this philosophy daily in their quest for corporate dominance and Market Capitalization. They all make money by first making money for other people.

If one would take the time to peruse the biographies and autobiographies of such industrial giants like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, or Andrew Carnegie, one would keenly
discover that these men did not become wealthy until they leveraged the capital of other investors. Our modern day equivalents; William Gates or the Oracle of Omaha; Warren Bufett became the wealthiest of men with Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway respectively by the same methods.They use the capital of investors to earn profits which ultimately makes money for these men.

However, this is not a novel philosophy. It has been around since money was first created as a medium of exchange. The banking system was founded upon this principle. Without it, banks would be null and void.  Our traditional banks use this principle by loaning out our checking and savings deposits. Insurance companies and pension funds do the same with our premiums and retirement contributions. We, the depositors are the friends of such institutions and our funds are used to make money for them through interests charged to creditors. This is a continuous cycle; for the creditors make friends with the banks in order to use loans to make money for themselves. (Business loans that is; versus personal loans for consumption purposes.)

Now concerning Affiliate Marketing, it’s the same game but a different playing field. Those who are successful online understand this underlining principle and use it continuously! We as aspirant entrepreneurs must first of all figure out how to make money for other people in order to attract money to ourselves. As Haanel continues in The Master-Key System, “The first law of Success is Service; which in this case implies GIVING; a banker gives his money, a merchant his goods, an author his thought, a workman his skill…”

So, to those of us in the race for financial independence, let’s engrave this LAW on our
foreheads. Let it sink into our psyche and approach everyday aforethought ‘How can I be of service today?’ Or in other words, ‘how can I make money for myself by first making money for someone else?’

Truth is regardless of what business or occupation we find ourselves; this universal principle applies. This law is indiscriminate; it’s no respecter of persons; it works for
whomever wherever you may be. Affiliate Marketing is just one arena where it works in exponential proportions. There is just no way of determining how profitable one can become when he or she embarks upon the best way to online success!

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