Every business model there are advantages and disadvantages but affiliate marketing is one model of good business. There are 17 advantages or benefits of doing business than the conventional affiliate marketing or another business model. Ok .. we just peeled.

1. There are no production costs
The high cost to develop and create new products generally prevent a lot of people to create their own products. With affiliate marketing, production cost is not a problem because the product has been developed and proven – with the money merchants.

2. Low initial cost
Compared with building a shop on the roadside, being an affiliate marketer is just a desk, internet connected computer and some software help.

3. Great earning potential
the potential income you earn depends on your hard work and dreams. As I said earlier, there are affiliate marketers who generate hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars or billions of dollars per month, not per year. But there are also affiliate marketers who are satisfied with the produce ten million rupiah per month. It’s your own choice.

4. Can sell anything
In a modern and developed countries, almost all goods purchased online. In the state  many goods ranging purchased online, including books, software, electronics, CDs and others. There are tens of thousands of affiliate programs you can choose to be promoted.

5. Do not need sales experience / sell
When you start your affiliate marketing, you do not need sales experience. Generally, the merchant provides a great marketing materials that can be used on the affiliate website that we created.

6. There should be no employee
Any person who never made a business must know what it’s like having employees. I personally have never started a company that has only 2-3 employees up to a company that has more than 50 employees. If I could choose, I would like to have a turnover of large companies, without any employees, life would be more fun. This is possible with affiliate marketing business.

7. Not bear the cost of order processing
To process orders online, merchants need to pay a merchant account, credit card processing fee, the fee in case of credit card fraud / theft, fee refund / cancellation of orders, etc.. Something that does not need to be borne or folksinging by an affiliate marketer.

8. There should be no stock of goods
As an affiliate marketer, you can sell large items such as furniture, electronic goods without having to bother with a stock of goods.

9. No need to process orders
Forget the problems that can arise due to collect your name, address, credit card and others. Merchants who handles all of that.

10. Markets around the world
The Internet is the biggest market in the world. You can bring in visitors / guests to your online store from around the world.

11. No need to bother sending
The cost and complexity to prepare and send the products to customers around the world truly frightens me. I have been in the business of production cassettes training top speakers in Indonesia. When many-many more orders, overtime, overtime I had to prepare and send the goods to the buyer even though my existing employees to help him.

12. No need for Customer Service
Got a customer is a good thing, but now have to face customer complaints and sometimes there are customers who really nag and nag, you’ll be grateful as an affiliate marketer because your merchant to handle all that.

13. Make money while you sleep
What kind of business that allows you to continue to operate 24 hours for 365 days while you are sleeping, go home and even the holidays?

14. Working from home
Working from home is often a dream for many workers who have spent a long time just to get to work. So parents have more time for family while working from home.

15. No fee or license
A distributor in the real world often have to pay a license fee to be able to market the product in a particular area is limited. Affiliate programs in contrast, are generally free to join and become a target area that marketing is not limited.

16. Work from anywhere in the world
This is one of the main reasons I do affiliate marketing. I want to travel to foreign countries and throughout Indonesia and still able to monitor my business with a laptop that is connected to the Internet.

17. Small risk
If you are unable to receive income from the products you are promoting, throw it away, replace the premises other products by replacing the link on your website. Just that alone. No contract / commitment that requires you to sell a particular product.

Although it had a surplus above 17, instead of affiliate marketing there is no shortage. There is plenty of material to learn affiliate marketing on the internet, please Google it. You must be drunk to see how much free material that can be learned about this topic.

• Creating a vision and business mission

Anyone who wants to start a business must know the vision and mission that will guide a person to remain focused on business and organizational goals early. Often a business at the time began to develop at a later stage have failed because the organization did not focus on the improvement of early progress but too many businesses try to develop other new business fields. In this topic everyone will learn how to create a vision and mission in relation to the personal background and knowledge of your business that will be pioneered.

• Necessity of winning, positive attitude and learning to be successful

Mental attitude is the key to the success of your business other than the understanding of your business. ‘there is no over night success is something to be kept in mind than any candidate “entrepreneur” because it takes time, do not give up attitude, learning process, and look at problems in a positive way that does not make you become discouraged but to see every opportunity and learning for every failure . You will learn to develop these attitudes on to become “business entrepreneurs’ success

Not only that, but you have to live with your initial decisions forever or for as long as you can resist. For example, the location you chose for your shop may have seemed favorable at the time you did your analysis.

The number of people were hoping they would pass through your door, it seemed appropriate and offered a good chance of customers to your store. And if it turned out well, you have to put up or bear the costs of a change of venue.

Events beyond your control

All kinds of negative events can and do happen when you’re tied to a home.

* The traffic of pedestrians can be reduced by unforeseeable changes in local municipal laws, such as parking permits or change of movement from two lanes to one in your street, etc.

* A major change in your neighborhood can change drastically the volume and quality of trafficking. For example, the opening of a supermarket or department store or the construction or removal of an office building or the opening of competing stores, etc.

* Demographic changes in your area. Such changes can be fatal to an established business.

Of course, one or all of the above changes could work in your favor, but you never know.

However, we have all witnessed the damage that can affect a traditional business.

1. Do something that people want
Paul Graham of Y Combinator, speaks very well about this in lecture for the startup school 08. Initially, think of something that people want, do not worry about the business model right away. The classic example that is cited for this type of thinking is Google, which in its first year was taking damage, but still moving forward because his audience would not stop growing. Until one day there is the business model and ad engages the business.

2. Start with a focus and setting priorities
A common mistake made by startups is to want to “embrace the world” or get lost as to your goal. Establish a core, a heart of its business, the differential that will give life to the business. Established the core, work hard at it and concentrate on their development. Functionality and additional features should wait till later. You better have your differential functioning well than a lot of things that did not work.

3. Be flexible, take your idea from paper
Depending on the way you act this point can be quite severe. In the case of the Internet is extremely serious. Forget the fear of failure and begin to develop their idea. Probably an idea like yours may be under development or will be soon. Has a minimum of planning needed to launch its initial release and follow the next point to keep their development:

4. After launching his business is in constant beta
The name beta, which often shows up around the logos of the companies, should be viewed as a philosophy. Is always improving its solution or someone will do something better soon, try to always have some advantage over what exists on the market is an audience, performance, visual or simplicity. The best way to maintain the product finds its evolution is to look at the next two points:

5. Learn from the competition
The competition will always have something to teach you is the way to do something or how not to do. A common mistake made is not to identify their competitors or you think your solution is so innovative that there are no competitors. There will always be competition for whatever arises, whether directly or indirectly, because the economy is closed. Try to find as quickly as possible to its competitors and not lose sight of them.

6. Listen to your audience
In the paradigm of web2.0, participation of users is crucial. Be sure to listen to your audience, whether through an area of feedback or answering emails. Probably your user will have the best ideas to develop your product or solution, probably because they use far more than you.

7. Think globally
In the case of Internet, if you want to profit indirectly or their profit margin is low, think of something global. Do not start creating something for your city, state or country, think of something that’s worldwide. Working with profits or indirect advertising requires a large audience. You should only think of something local or national level if your idea has high added value, as in the shirt.

8. Encourage audience participation
The shirt that I quoted just now is a great example of audience participation. If possible open the possibility to create something that your audience or indirectly participate in your company. This will create a community of believers and it will get its name because the audience who participates becomes part of the brand and also wants to disclose it.

9. Do not worry about the technology initially
Who is not in IT or are getting into IT, often fails to start with an idea by not having knowledge of technology development. Do not limit your technical knowledge at the time of design ideas. Learn with technology courses, search the Internet or can be developed by others.

10. Think of the user from start to finish
The users are people who will use and its financially viable solution, therefore is the most important part. Google knows how to do it very well for being in their philosophy, design simple, functional and user-centric, which makes people want to use the product. Study interaction design or related fields, hire someone from that area, or have someone on your team that profile. Do research on your target audience and always be attentive to the feedback provided by him.