Affiliate Network Marketing is a relatively new phenomenon. With this business model, many distributors who previously struggled to build a successful business are now finding massive success.

There are a number of network marketing books and products that have been developed recently to teach distributors how to incorporate this new business model. However, it is important that you first know what the business model is.

What is Affiliate Network Marketing?

Affiliate network marketing is the merger of two business models into one. It merges the affiliate marketing business model with the network marketing business model to create a third and stronger business model.

Affiliate marketing is a business model in which you are paid a commission for referring people to purchase a product or service. This referral is typically made either by having a link on a web site that is clicked on or sending out a link in an email.

Network marketing is a business model in which you are also paid a commission for referring people to purchase a product or service. In addition, you are paid a commission for recruiting people into the business opportunity and helping them refer people to purchase a product or service.

There are many leaders in the network marketing industry that are now teaching affiliate network marketing. This is a combination of these two business models to create your own business.

Ann Sieg – The Renegade Network Marketer

One example of this is the book The Renegade Network Marketer by Ann Sieg. Ann Sieg denounces the old traditional way of building the business.

In her book, Ann Sieg explains why the traditional way of building a network marketing business is extremely difficult and not very effective in the 21^st century. Instead, she recommends a different business model, which is based on the affiliate network marketing business model.

What Ann Sieg recommends is to focus your efforts on recruiting network marketing distributors that are already involved in the industry. However, instead of pitching them your business, offer them products or services that will help them build their business.

Of course, many of these products and services you will offer them will be as a result of being a part of an affiliate program that you get paid commission on. Because of these offers, some of these distributors will be grateful for your help and may join your primary network marketing business.

Mike Dillard – The ALPHA Magnetic Sponsoring Machine

Another teacher of the affiliate network marketing business model is Mike Dillard. Mike wrote a book called Magnetic Sponsoring in which he teaches the affiliate network marketing business model.

Like Ann Sieg, Mike Dillard also believes in focusing your efforts on network marketing distributors and offering them products and services to help them build their business. In fact, he offers a suite of products and services that you can offer them on an affiliate arrangement.

One benefit to offering Mike Dillard’s products is that he has a very good contact management system that you can use for free. He also offers lifetime commissions. This means when a customer buys from him once through your recommendation, if they buy again later, you get paid again.

Daegan Smith – The KING of Never Calling a Single Lead

Daegan Smith is another network marketing leader that teaches this concept. Known as “The King of Never Calling a Single Lead” he offers a free training CD that teaches you a number of strategies to build your network marketing business online. A big part of his strategy is of course creating additional income through affiliate programs.

Regardless of which one of these leaders you decide to learn from they will all teach you how to build your home business using affiliate network marketing. However, most people typically have trouble with implementing all of the nuts and bolts.

To assist you, we have a program known as Renegade University that teaches you how to take the concepts you learn from these affiliate network marketing teachers and actually implement them to build your business.

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by Eric Walker

So often internet network marketers ask themselves, ‘What are the best affiliate products?’ This article will address this question, and provide insight for your future affliate product choices. You will also understand the difference between affiliate products and affiliate tools, and why both are important for internet network marketers.

Be Selective About Which Affiliate Products You Represent, and Use Them First

There are several things to consider when choosing the right products for your affiliate network marketing.

First and foremost, internet network marketers must choose products that are quality, reputable and offer value. And there is no other way to know if your affiliate products are quality and offer value than if you own them and have used them yourself.

Internet network marketers should keep in mind that the lifeblood of their business is their brand, their reputation and the value they offer. In placing one’s affiliate product offer in front of a potential customer, you are personally endorsing that product. If the affiliate product is of poor quality, it could hurt your reputation and damage your trust factor.

Furthermore, if you are an internet network marketer and interacting with your network marketing leads, or offering any type of phone consultation or even one on one coaching, you will want to be able to answer questions about your recommended affiliate products. This is much easier if you already own the affiliate product and have used it to grow your networking business.

There Are Affiliate Products and Affiliate Tools for Internet Network Marketers

There is a difference between affiliate products and affiliate tools.

For example, Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring line of products include: Magnetic Sponsoring, Building on a Budget, Black Belt Recruiting and MLM Traffic Formula. These are all information products or programs that an internet network marketer can learn from to develop new and must-have skills to be successful in internet network marketing.

These products also represent the funded sponsoring proposal.

Understand the advantages of making commissions on affiliate products as a front end means of covering your marketing costs. This is known as a funded proposal, or monetization.

Affiliate tools would be such things as your autoresponder provider, your domain hosting, your merchant account or your article and/or video marketing distributor service.

For example, if you use iContact as your autoresponder provider, each person who uses your unique affiliate link when choosing to use iContact as their autoresponder provider, will earn you an affiliate commission. The advantage of this is that you are cutting your overhead business costs. Internet network marketers need these tools to run their business.

Understand the advantages of earning affiliate commissions on the tools you already use to grow your networking business.

If Internet Network Marketers Understand their Target Audience, Chances for Successful Affiliate Marketing Increase

The best affiliate products are the ones that your target audience needs. When internet network marketers can identify their target market, they are able to focus their awareness and understanding for which affiliate products would best serve them. This is critical.

For example, if I knew that my target audience was going to be network marketers who were sick and tired of building their network marketing business using the traditional offline methods of prospecting, I’d recommend The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing by Ann Sieg (which is a free report) and begin leading them toward her eBook, The Renegade Network Marketer.

Another example…if I knew that my target audience were internet network marketers struggling with network marketing leads generation to keep themselves in  business, I would offer information about lead generation and recommend Magnetic Sponsoring or Building on a Budget by Mike Dillard.

Internet network marketers can build relationships, offer value and build trust through the recommendation and/or review of affiliate products and tools. It is an effective way to create much needed cash flow for any type of business.

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The Renegade Network Marketer by Ann Sieg and Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard: two revolutionary books that have changed the way the network marketers conduct their businesses.

Which one should you have on your bookshelf?

Both.

Which one should you buy first?

Ahh. Good question.

Let’s look at the reasons you may be drawn to one or the other.

Attraction Marketing Finally Comes to the Network Marketing Industry

Mike Dillard came out with Magnetic Sponsoring in 2005

Ann Sieg released The Renegade Network Marketer in 2007.

Both books introduce the concept of attraction marketing and how network marketers can use it to generate leads who will come to them.

Get this idea down, and you’ll never have to chase after prospects begging them to join your business opportunity again.

Both books have affiliate programs. If you buy one or the other, you will receive an affiliate id number. From then on, anytime someone clicks on your link, goes to the sales page and buys; you earn a generous portion of the sale. In addition, both back end systems will generate an affiliate link for you which will then apply to other products sold.
For example, when you join the Magnetic Sponsoring affiliate program, you will receive not only a unique link for the Magnetic Sponsoring book, but one for each of Mike Dillard's other books as well. If someone were to get into the system through your link and decide not to buy Magnetic Sponsoring but MLM Traffic Formula instead, you would earn a tidy commission from the MLM Traffic Formula sale even though the book you promoted was Magnetic Sponsoring.
In the back end of The Renegade Network Marketer, you have the opportunity to sign up with forty odd affiliates. All of the products represented are things that network marketers are likely to need as they build their business opportunities.

Ann Sieg vs Mike Dillard

While both Ann Sieg and Mike Dillard are basically offering the same information, the difference is in their presentation.

Ann Sieg writes as a friend, connecting with the emotions her readers are facing, and explaining her concepts in a light, conversational tone.

Mike Dillard’s approach is more hard hitting and direct. He lays out exactly what it is you need to do, but does not offer to “hold you hand” while you do it.

The choice between The Renegade Network Marketer and Magnetic Sponsoring comes down to which style will make the information more digestible for you.

The Renegade Network Marketer vs. Magnetic Sponsoring

What you have here is a win-win decision.

It is rare that the purchaser of either The Renegade Network Marketer or Magnetic Sponsoring books is unhappy. Both are packed with value and both do a great job of explaining what it is you need to accomplish for network marketing success.

Both books offer outstanding affiliate programs.

Both books leave you excited to get started with what you’ve learned, but at a slight loss as to where to begin.

That, of course, is where Marketing Merge comes in. With its step by step training you can take what you have learned in either The Renegade Network Marketer or Magnetic Sponsoring and put it to use for your network marketing business.

Do You Begin with The Renegade Network Marketer or Magnetic Sponsoring?

My personal recommendation:

If you have any feelings of insecurity about going into network marketing, start out with Ann Sieg and The Renegade Network Marketer.

You’ll be eased into the attraction marketing strategy for building your network marketing business.

Once you have a handle on the ideas presented, and have put them to use, go on to read Magnetic Sponsoring.

If, on the other hand, you are more likely to respond to a “no more excuses, get off your rear and do it” approach, then start with Magnetic Sponsoring.

Mike Dillard’s no nonsense style may be just the kick start you need to get going.

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Barbara Silva, as seen in MIM Mentors in Motion Magazine, brings over thirty years teaching experience to her internet marketing training business. She specializes in teaching attraction marketing, customer/team relationship building and quality article marketing to business owners.

Barbara is the author of Romancing the Sale: How to Build and Maintain Highly Profitable Customer Relationships That Last.