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How do I select an affordable web affiliate program/service? Any recommendations?

I'm starting a web-based business. I'd like to create an affiliate marketing program to find and implement a program for referral agents and link backs. Any tips, suggestions or referrals for same? I'm selling a professional marketing service to small business clients. Transactions are available by credit card payment on the site or by phone. No storefront. It's national in scope.

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1. Clickbank is good if you have an actual product like and ebook, videos or something physical. But if your selling a service try Paydotcom they are quite flexible and much cheaper and manage your whole affiliate set up.
2. I would look for all the rotator programs I could find. Free banner ads that you can add to your site. Free classified ads. Usually they want you to add a small button of their site to your own.
3. Hi Steve. My name is Alan, good to meet you. The answer you seek may seem like it would be easy to answer by internet marketers, but it's not. I'm sure you have done a lot of research on this and if you were like me, you have been overwhelmed by all the information overload. At first glance, it appears that the "gurus" all know what they are talking about. Many of them do, but here's the issue...... They do NOT give you all the information you need to make a go of an internet business. In fairness to them, there are just too many variables involved, such as: * Type of products you're promoting * Budget * Experience * Goals * How much time you can devote * Many many others So, what is the solution? Unfortunately, it's not a question of , "What products or programs should I promote?". So what IS the answer? Well, if you notice from any programs that you may have purchased, they all say to do different things to start and promote your business. The problem is, somewhere along the way, you will stumble across a task you do not understand or know how to do. In addition, it is not shown or explained to you. So, the solution is to master the basics first. I know that sounds simple, but that's it. Once you master the basics, like FTP, creating simple web pages, domain hosting, working with images, and on and on, etc., etc., then all the products and programs that you purchase that show you how to run an affiliate/internet marketing business will all start to make sense. SO when they ask you to create a web page then FTP it to your hosting account, you will know what to do. When it asks you to create follow up messages in your autoresponder account, you'll know hat to do. You get the idea. So Steve, my advice to you is to master the basics first, then everything else will make sense. Yo will be able to look around on the internet and automatically know hjat it will take to succeed. You may not understand that logic right now, but PLEASE take my word for it. I learned all this the hard way. Before I go, I will shamelessly plug the ONLY affiliate education program I have seen that will take you by the hand, step by step, using hands on video tutorials. They offer free hosting, hundreds of videos and articles, and too many other stuff to talk about here. But it is done without information overload. Please check this site out and let me know if you have any questions. I hope this has helped.