There are numerous ways to make money online these days, one of which is working as an affiliate of an online business and earning an income by recommending customers to a certain brand or program.

Today we look at how to do this and how to get established in this field.

Most companies offer some sort of affiliate plan and one popular way to build an income from home is to become an affiliate of an existing corporation or company. Even popular sites like Amazon run this type of thing and it’s growing in popularity each year.

While there are numerous benefits of becoming an affiliate to an already established, trusted company there are also some overlooked drawbacks which prove problematic for most people when it comes to creating that all important income they’re after.

Having something which is already established goes a long way to removing the drive and focus you actually need to become successful as your own boss. When you’re trying to carve out a living for yourself with a hobby or personal interest your back is often up against the wall, you know how serious you must be in order to succeed.

Anybody in your community who has successfully created their own business will tell you that as an affiliate marketer you probably do not have what it takes to become your own boss. They’re from an entirely different mold.

People often get fooled into believing they can make a living without putting in the effort. Just because an opportunity is online based does not, of course, mean it is anything more than an opportunity. Empower Network is a great example.

This is why so many people fail to get anywhere on the internet when it comes to earning cash. The net result of programs marketing themselves as ‚too good to be true‘ basically means you have a ton of people trying to work for themselves who simply do not possess the basic level of drive to succeed. They’re looking for an easy solution.

That certainly doesn’t mean you don’t have what it takes, of course. It just means you need to be sure about what you are doing beforehand rather than copying the same mistakes thousands of others make every day. Set your goals beforehand and treat your business like a business.

You can’t reach your goal without actually moving forward.

Those words ring true across every home based business opportunity and are the reason over half of all affiliates struggle to get anywhere with their earnings.

Before you attempt to make money online as an affiliate you need to lay down the basic laws of success. You will need to be serious about your goals or you will not ever achieve them. Are you ready to get started?

About the Publisher: Russ Howe is a father and gym instructor turned five figure online earner with Empower Network. Get your free guide on how to make money online to maximize your results.

There are a number of ways to build your online business and today we look at how to make the most of the Freeway To Success opportunity. Much like other programs such as Global Domains International, this is often misunderstood.

Having tried and tested the program for three years now we will show a couple of very different aspects to the program for you as well as revealing why most affiliates fail.

The overall structure of this particular home based business is not vastly different to that of any other. You can earn via it’s affiliate plan and you receive a batch of products from the company as a paying member. This is pretty straight forward stuff.

But one of the main things which lets the program down is it’s low $5 membership price. At this price, people often fail to realize the power they actually have to change their financial future with this lucrative system.

The bottom line, however, is that no matter how lucrative a business is there will be a ton of people who don’t turn that potential into a reality. While some make it look effortless and dare we say it fun you will also see others who just can’t get it right. This happens in every program of course. So what’s the difference between these two types of people?

The main thing which separates the successful from the unsuccessful is focus. Focus is something you either have or you don’t have. Without it any business will fail and for most affiliate marketers that theory becomes a harsh reality.

You should be looking at the low start up cost and thinking how you could potentially change your life from that point as opposed to already making excuses to make yourself feel better if you don’t see any progress.

Most home businesses are low cost compared to offline businesses because as an affiliate you don’t need to do any ground work or develop your own products. This low cost often becomes a negative as people don’t push themselves anywhere near hard enough.

In order to succeed with any business you need the right mentality. Nobody can become your own boss for you, after all. You need to have a direct plan of action and you need to stick to it.

It is easy to see why so many people fail in this program just like any other. Instead of taking advantage of the fact that the internet makes it so much easier to become your own boss than it used to be in days gone by most affiliates fail to work at their business with the correct amount of drive and focus to see results.

While there is money to be made online, it often isn’t achieved.

Freeway To Success suffers from the same problems as all other online programs. Those problems often fall at the feet of the affiliates themselves. While we see success we also see others who don’t push themselves and seem content with dreaming of the end result rather than ensuring they actually get there.

Creator: Russ Howe is a global leading Freeway To Success and Global Domains International coach. Be sure to see our video review and payment proof today to maximize your results.

One of the first things people ask upon joining Global Domains International is how to get started with their new home business. Actually, there are a number of things which you can do to get your GDI business off the ground almost immediately.

Let’s take a quick look at the first things to check out as a new GDI member.

* Your marketing system. It is important to use a simple GDI downline building system to get the most from your business.

* Your GDI affiliate plan. Most members of Global Domains International are looking to take advantage of the company’s lucrative earnings plan. And finally…

* Your GDI products. As a member you receive your own domain name and web hosting. What would you like to use yours for?

So don’t just be fooled into thinking you need to look at GDI’s affiliate plan to make any money. We personally used our Global Domains International products to turn our hobby into a full time income, as well as using GDI’s lucrative affiliate plan to build a five figure secondary income. The possibilities are massive.

The three rules above will help you to see what you have available to your as a GDI member and where you should be going from that point. Would you like to use your products to turn a hobby into an income stream? Would you like to focus on the affiliate plan? It’s best to decide at the start.

Set two goals, one long term goal and one short term goal. By short term, of course, we do not mean ‚this time next week…‘ Becoming successful in any home business takes time. Look to work at either your GDI affiliate business or turning your hobby into an income for at least six months, the same way you would starting your business in the offline world.

The idea of making money online appeals to most of us because it has a false notion that you must join a company and then, effectively, do nothing. While Global Domains International is a quality, proven and very lucrative home based business it will not give you the impression that you can get rich without putting in any effort. In order to become successful at working from home you simply need to work at your business. No qualifications or experience are necessary but the will to succeed certainly is.

With regards to the Global Domains International affiliate plan, one simple way to make the most of this is to use a ready made GDI marketing system. This allows you to build your GDI without the ‚leg work‘ so-to-speak, as a top system will usually include ready made capture pages hooked up to your GDI affiliate link, autoresponder software to follow up with leads for you, and so on. If you are serious about building an income with your GDI, this should be the first step.

Author: Russ Howe is a trusted and established leader within Global Domains International. take your Join GDI marketing system today.

Global Domains International is undoubtedly a very popular home based business, but very few affiliates make a success of themselves. Today we show you what you actually get and more importantly how to use it.

In business since 1999, GDI actually started out without the much advertised earnings opportunity associated with it right now. When it began it was just a company you could buy .ws domain extensions from, nothing more.

Originally known as .ws for Western Samoa, GDI re-branded this as WebSite and began it’s assault on the home based business industry in 2004.

There are four main ingredients in the GDI product package, which are as follows:

1) Your choice of .ws domain extension. This allows you to create your own website.

2) Standard GDI web hosting tools.

3) A lucrative affiliate business is included, too.

4) GDI provides a training library including live webinar conferences hosted by successful affiliates and regular featured tips and tricks teaching the basics of how to become one’s own boss from home with the program. The main downfall in this area is that most affiliates simply don’t apply it.

Basically, they provide you with your own website upon joining. You can use your site for whatever you want to do. Whether you want to create a family website, a parental advice forum, a blog, a site which allows you to take your hobby online and look at building a name for yourself in a particular niche… The possibilities are as endless as your imagination. Most individuals, however, are first turned on to the idea of this program by it’s lucrative earnings opportunity.

We have used many affiliate plans which pay way more than the $1 per referral on offer in GDI, however none of them came close in terms of long term income as GDI opens the door ‚residually‘. This means you are paid a commission each time you introduce a new member to GDI through your signup page, and you are paid again every single month thereafter, too. This can mount up quickly if utilized correctly.

This means you can build an income each month to the point where, once you have attracted a few serious individuals to your business, you can relax a little knowing that each time they build their business it also builds yours, too. This is passive income, and it is a big feature in GDI’s attractiveness. Most affiliates, however, don’t get to that stage. They mistake this appeal to mean ‚it is easy money‘ and they don’t get their business off the ground….

Well over 80% of affiliates fail to make any money. With an affiliate plan this appealing, how is this possible?

* No support from their uplines. Too many GDI reps promise an easy ride and then provide not even a contact email address.

* Most new members have no idea how to get started.

* People often set unrealistic goals, quitting after two weeks or a month. You wouldn’t open a business in the real world and do this, so don’t do it online either. This occurs because making money online is often associated with being ‚instant‘ and ‚easy‘ by poor sponsors looking for a quick commission at somebody’s expense.

So there you have it. There is a mammoth opportunity to build a stable monthly income within Global Domains International but the fact is if you are not prepared to work at your business or you get sucked in by the usual talk of making money for doing nothing you can expect to miss the chance in front of you by a country mile. It’s not for everyone, but if you decide it’s for you we wish you the best of luck.

Author: Russ Howe is a world leading sponsor within Global Domains International 2012. Before signing up, be sure to pick up your complete guide to Global Domains International results.

While Empower Network looks potentially very lucrative from the outside, most affiliates don’t actually make any money despite the huge affiliate plan on offer. Today we show you how to ensure this doesn’t happen to you.

One of the common problems in online business is that people get caught up in the potential income and blinded by dreams of sitting on a beach watching money roll in on autopilot that they forget to actually MAKE the income they crave.

Let’s be honest, technology has us living in an age where we want everything now and everything free. This causes you to overlook rule number 1 of business, which is patience.

Of course home businesses also know this. They understand that if they market themselves as ‚easy money‘ they will have far more members join on a daily basis and regardless of whether you succeed or fail the company makes a bigger income as a result of smart marketing. This company is no different.

The first thing you need to do to get results from your business is change your mentality. Start treating it like a business the same way you would if you set up a business out in the real world. Many people are unable to do this. One of the attractions of making money on the internet is that you do not need any experience or special skills, but there are a few proven rules you do need to follow:

1) Patience is the absolute key.

2) You need to be persistent. Your life is a long-term thing, therefore any attempts to change it also need to be long-term.

3) Determination.

4) Creativity is important in any business otherwise you get lost in the crowd.

The number one reason so many people fail to make money online is that so many people who try to make money online do not possess the fundamental requirements it takes to become your own boss.

Whether with this company or any other, you will get lost in the crowd unless you put the work in and stay focused on your goal. Three weeks, sadly, isn’t going to cut it when it comes to changing your financial life.

In terms of opportunity, Empower Network stacks up impressively against other home based businesses. But if you lack the fundamental attributes to make it work you may find yourself becoming another failure statistic. It’s time to get serious for yourself.

Author: Russ Howe is a global leading Empower Network member. See your simple video guide here Join Empower Network next.

Over the last five years we have become very established in the world of online business and today we want to look at one business in particular, Global Domains International. There are a number of rules which you should apply when joining any business that will help you to succeed and today we’re going to use the GDI business as an example to show you how to succeed online.

Because believe it or not over eighty five percent of affiliates in this particular company fail to make any money.

That’s right, despite the huge claims of how easy it is to make money from home and the various videos from ‚Gurus‘ telling you that you will build an automated income if you join their team, most affiliates are actually making nothing.

The affiliate themselves are not always to blame for the fact that they simply couldn’t get any results. These are also big factors:

* The vast majority of members get no training or contact from their sponsor.

* People often waste unnecessary cash on systems which claim to teach you how to make money online but in reality do not work. Often they do this simply because they don’t know how to get started building a business on the worldwide web.

* Almost every single new GDI member tries to sign up friends and family.

The majority, if not all, of the points above will be eliminated the moment you put yourself around a quality sponsor who is as serious about their business as you are yours. But there is one more rule, one more vital reason why people fail to make the most of GDI, and it’s a little bit more tricky..

Most members simply don’t have what it takes to become their own boss. That sounds harsh, but what we mean by that is while they do not lack potential or intelligence they often lack the simple need for determination. Anybody who has became their own boss will tell you that it takes time and effort. This is why most GDI affiliates like the idea of making easy money but often quit one or two months into their journey.

That habit can lead you to be sucked into something we like to call ‚Next Big Thing Syndrome‘, which is not a good place to be for anyone trying to become their own boss. this means affiliates often jump between teams, sponsors, systems and programs on a week-by-week basis.

People fail in any business, even ones with great affiliate plans.

To reach the top in any business you must take your time and set out a long-term plan of action. If you work at any business for long enough you will reach success, most simply quit before they get there. Stick to your goals and work on them every single day, you will get far with that approach alone.

If you are looking at a business like Global Domains International just be sure that while the program itself has fantastic income available there is absolutely no guarantee that you are going to earn that kind of income. You will need to work to establish yourself, become the face of your online ‚brand‘ and reach the top.

About the Writer: Russ Howe is a Global Domains International world leading sponsor. Before you go into GDI, grab the free video to Join GDI to make the most of the business.

Take two of the most popular internet based home business programs on the planet, Global Domains International and Empower Network, and you’ll notice they have one thing in common. Too many affiliates fail to make the most of these opportunities, overlooking simple steps and failing in their home business.

After five years working from home, we have seen that the vast majority of folks who fail to get anywhere fall into these situations.

* Regardless of what big claims are given, the overwhelming majority of affiliate are receiving absolutely no help from their sponsor at all…

* As with anything new, people who are trying either company for the first time don’t know how to get the ball rolling.

* Many of them resort to trying to sign up friends or family, which never works.

* Many affiliates are fed false statistics, believing they’re going to build an online income in a week.

There’s a couple in that list which will go away by simply applying your own common sense to your business. However, there are a few which are genuinely tricky to prevent.

One of those is the issue of so called Guru types making all kinds of promises and guarantees of easy riches, then providing zero actual help after the member has handed over their membership money.

We’ve all probably encountered folks who would make any crazy promise they felt necessary in order to squeeze and extra buck or two for themselves, and you should treat them the same online as you would online. If it looks too good to be true, it definitely is. So how are you supposed to know when somebody isn’t pulling your leg?

As great as both companies are to build an online income, it’s very difficult to find a sponsor in either who is not just trying to earn a commission. Let’s face it, every video or website you view is an advert. They don’t want you to join the company, they want you to join THEM in the company. Here are some guidelines on what to look for and what to avoid.

Look out for sponsors promising they will build your business on auto pilot if you join their downline. Also beware of affiliates who claim they’ll provide you with a fool proof system which does all of the work for you.

If it did all of the work for you, they would not be out there advertising for you to join them, would they?

Realizing there is no get rich quick system in either business opportunity is the hardest step. We want to believe there is. But any successful affiliate will tell you this is the biggest difference between them and those who fail.

Today’s video features world leading GDI and EN sponsor Russ Howe.

It’s easy to sit here and dream about how great it will be when you are earning a big online income. But some people never snap out of that dream and go about actually making it happen. Set yourself a plan, stick to your plan. A business plan like a real venture in the outside world. This serious approach enables you to get focused with your goals and simultaneously helps you to avoid every issue we pointed out today.

While both Global Domains International and Empower Network possess massive income potential very few affiliates enjoy any real results because they overlook the simple steps we have given you in today’s free report. If you are looking towards building an income from home with either company you’re already way ahead of the pack.

Author: Russ Howe is a young dad now five figure online earner. Get our free report to see how we became the top team worldwide in Global Domains International and Empower Network today.

It’s very simple to understand why so many folks look to make money online these days, given the current financial times. However so many folks make their first move a wrong move and never recover. The two most important things to do when looking to get started in home based business occur right at the very beginning of your journey.

Before you decide upon which home business you wish you commit to, take into consideration the following very important aspects:

* Be sure you’re looking to become your own boss, rather than just trying to find an instant solution.

* Don’t let your excitement lead your thinking. Sure you want to make money, but you need to actually find a business or an affiliate program which provides something you genuinely like if you want to succeed with it.

They say 97 percent of people fail to make money online. The vast majority of this statistic is made up of the same people failing over and over again in various different online businesses. Think with your business head here, you wouldn’t start a company and the close down a month later before starting another one a few weeks down the line, right? Take the same mentality online.

Once you have got yourself into the correct mindset you need to find a business which suits you. There are hundreds of thousands of programs out there you can use. Choose the one you find the most appealing, not purely for monetary reasons but for overall value.

There are many businesses out there but finding the one which is right for you personally is the most difficult, in fact the only difficult, aspect. If you do manage to do it, however, it shines through in everything you do and makes it far easier to build your online income. Today’s video clip shows what it’s like to grow an opportunity you actually find fun.

No matter whether you are trying to set yourself up from home as the creator of a certain product or give advice on a specialist subject, or if you are looking to join an affiliate program and build an online income that way, the first two steps are the most difficult by far. Get past this and you are already way ahead of the pack.

About the Writer: Russ Howe is a full time dad and fitness instructor turned five figure online earner with Global Domains International. Get your free guide on how to work from home.