These days affiliate marketers are very well catered to.  It has become one of the most lucrative professions on the internet.  There are two prime affiliate marketing payment systems, Clickbank and Dotcom.com.  There may be others but these two are the largest and most popular, particularly Clickbank which is by far the biggest of its kind with over 10.000 products on any given day.  Both these systems are free to join.

There are many reasons why so many professional online marketers use affiliate marketing payment systems.  First of all they know they will always get paid promptly, twice per months. They also know the company has a long, respected track record and will always be there to honor their commitments. They know the products will live up to expectations, or they would not be there.

What is equally important is that they have not only the biggest and best range of products, they have the greatest variety.  There is a product to cover every possible niche market, even the most obscure. The products are sorted into categories, making it easy for affiliates to find just the right product for their particular niche market.

It beats buying that exciting new products, with all the bells and whistles and then waiting and hoping for some individual vendor to pay on time. You begin to fear they will not stay in business long enough to pay you.  Even worse you can land a product that bears no resemblance to the description on the webpage. Often the packaging is the product.

Internet businesses are renowned for starting up with a big, impressive bang and little else. They soon fizzle out, to leave a string of unsatisfied customers and unpaid affiliates.  It is also common for compensation plans to change and that too can leave the affiliate high and dry.

Clickbank and dotcom.com can be relied on to have the best products.  That is because they closely vet each product before accepting it. This process means many products are rejected.  If you are new to the world of internet business, there is no better, or safer way to get your feet wet than through affiliate marketing.

Instead of paying for an expensive product which can be a flash in the pan and never make you a dime, you will have thousands of products to choose from, all of them guaranteed quality products, and you will not have to pay one cent for the privilege of promoting a single one of them.  I don’t know if you realize it yet, but this has to be anyone’s dream business.  Just consider, no business overheads, except, possibly advertising, and these days even that expense can be avoided.

There is a vast array of marketing and advertising options which do not cost any money.  It is possible today to successfully market any product, make a good income, and never have to pay a dime.  Where else in the world can you find a genuine free business?  Think about it; no rent, no staff, no stock, no fittings, n furnishings and no service costs.  This is a no cost, risk free business that anyone can afford.  It is certainly the best business for anyone who is new to the internet and wants to gain some experience before deciding what to do next.

The easiest and most lucrative way to market a business today is through social network sites. If you can find a product which is desirable to the majority of the population, say for example, a proven way to lose weight and not have to diet or count calories ever again, do you not think a lot of people would like to check that out?

In other words, regardless of experience, a person can simply cruise the social network sites and talk about this new way to lose weight without a diet.  Anyone asking for a link to check it out is a potential customer.  Through social networking, we make friends who go on to become long term, repeated customers for our home based business.  And the thing to remembers is this, you are socializing, not selling and you never have to pay.

Affiliate Marketing Payment Systems are the best thing that could have happened to internet marketing.  It gives everybody a chance for a no risk shot at success.  If you would like to see my personal recommendation, for social marketing, you can find the details below.

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Kirsten Plotkin

Goldcoast, Australia

Dear Google

I have a confession to make; I am deeply in love with Google.  Even before I started my business back in October 07, I had a serious crush on Google Search.    These days my feelings have deepened to the extent that I have Google Desktop loaded at all times with up to date information. There is not a day when I don’t have my Gmail sitting in my system tray ready to go.  Google Hubs is probably my favorite place to send my stories and articles and who doesn’t I Google?

I try to write a hub, at least once a week.  I use Google Search daily, either to find something or someone, or to check on my keywords.  I love the latest keyword research tools Google have brought out recently.  I’m sure they were made for me. They make my life so much easier.

I don’t think my business could run without Google, in fact, I don’t think I would want it to.  So I am eternally grateful to know it is always there, but I fear that although I dearly love Google so much, and cannot get by without it, Google doesn’t return my affections and that hurts me deeply.

Why do I believe that?

Well, I used to have an Adsense account, in fact I still have it but it is suspended due to an outstanding requirement.  Google wants me to provide them with my bank account details and that is more than reasonable.  The trouble is I have already given them my bank details.  Google agrees with that and they confirm it every time I try to add them again.  A message pops up to say that they already have the details.  So what’s the problem?  The problem is that Google will not let me use the account until they get my bank account details….

I know what you’re thinking; Why don’t I just contact them.  Well, I’m not the only person who loves Google, they have many other suitors and they cannot devote individual time to one love struck fan like me.  For that they have a fan club, which is called The Forum.  Again I feel a little rejected.  In the Forum, nobody will talk to me about my problem, at least not anyone who can offer a suggestion, even less, a solution. So what do I do?

I am primarily a writer.  I write articles, Blog entries, Hubs, reports, press releases, email letters, forum comments, ads, social commentary and bookmark comments.  Writing is probably 95% of what I do.  I don’t use outside sources.  All my writings are original works.  When I advertise, I use only my own personal content and these days, it is devoted mostly to the book My Own Plan by Kirsten Plotkin which I wrote recently.  Again the book contains content known only to me.  It is based on a discovery I made five years ago which led me to a permanent weight loss solution.  The book was recently published on the internet.

On paper, surely I am a perfect match for Google, if only they would notice me!

Because I am such a prolific writer, Adsense is a very important stream of income for me, which I have now missed out on for a really long time.  I cannot even access the money owed to me because…Well, to pay me, Google needs my bank account details.

So this is my last ditch attempt to get Google to notice me and take pity on me.  I really am a very nice person, who just hopes to have her affections and her Adsense returned to normal.

With love and affection,

Kirsten Plotkin

http://www.my-own-plan.com

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When you think about it, don’t you sometimes ask yourself; why is everybody getting fat?  Particularly when you know that most people, probably more than ninety-nine percent, have been on at least one diet. No doubt, every one of these people tried to do their best to lose weight permanently, at least once.  Often they have paid a sizable sum of money to buy the diet.  When you consider the massive focus today on diets and exercise, at the very least, the number of fat people should be diminishing, instead they are increasing at a rate that keeps on growing.

Is it unreasonable to expect that when you take advice from people who call themselves diet experts, it follows that you will get a result?  Not just a short term weight loss, but a result that can be called a real permanent weight loss.  The question is all the more relevant, when you remember that people have often paid large amounts of money to get a positive result. Yet, when the diet is over, not only does the lost weight return, but dieters are even bigger than before they started. We have reached a point where very few people, including, I am sure, the diet experts, truly believe that a diet can work permanently.  So why diet?  Hope springs eternal. We all believe the next miracle cure for anything will be the one that works.  That’s why there are so many diet experts and why new ones pop up all the time.  After all, anyone can be a diet expert.  If even one of these diets proved to give a permanent weight loss, we would all know about it and nobody would be fat anymore.

So given all this advice by experts, is it not reasonable to expect to see a noticeable reduction in the number of fat people overall?  That’s not very likely, despite the fact that we now have more diets, and more diet advice than ever before.  Instead more people are getting fatter every day.  Seems, the more advice we get the fatter we get.

Do you realize that today, the majority of people are fat.  The number is sixty percent of the population, and still growing, (pun intended).  There is no sign to suggest that this trend will do anything but continue to increase.

It may shock you to learn that less than five years ago, fat people were still a minority.  What is your guess for the percentage in another five years, or worse, a decade?

The diet industry has a lot of excuses. They all blame the customers.  Not a single one of these experts have hinted at the possibility they may be working with bad information, in other words; maybe the diets are at fault.

The amazing faith displayed by these experts, is hard to understand when you consider all their countless failures.  Not one single diet has been scientifically tested and proved to work.  In fact, no science has been involved in any of them.  Diets are simply unproven theories, offered by people who are not qualified to tell you what, or how much, to put in your mouth.

So it is time to ask yourself; who are you going to listen to?  Unqualified, if well meaning people, who truly do not have a clue.  Or do you heed your gut instinct which says; “Listen to your body”.  Our body used to take care of our weight problems. We all have a metabolism which is designed to do that. The trouble is we have forgotten what to do with it. For years we have abused and confused our body with erratic diets and eating habits.  It is time we look at the facts and learn how to get a real permanent weight loss.

http://www.my-own-plan.com

Kirsten Plotkin Author

The Book My Own Plan.

It may shock you to learn that the best diet ever, is the one that bans you from counting calories and stops you experimenting with food groups. In other words; the best diet is to never diet at all because No diets can work permanently

So do you need to diet to lose weight? Never!  Once you cut down on food and start to count calories, you have already started down the road to certain failure. Quite simply, our body is not designed to diet. Nature created our metabolism to handle that and it is not able to cope with the constant interference and frequent changes to what used to be our traditional foods.  It is particularly damaging when we add indigestible foods we were never meant to eat, in favor of foods our body used to depend on.

The reason no one has told you diets never work, is that the medical profession and the public in general, always used to see weight problems as a sign of self indulgence and therefore entirely self inflicted.  So nobody protested when some thirty to forty years ago, self professed experts decided that this was an ignored little niche market in the area of health just begging to be hijacked.

There were no laws to curb the actions of these people and nobody showed any interest in trying to change that.  For more than thirty years, dozens of self proclaimed experts have launched one diet after another, and if permanent weight loss is the measure of a diet’s success or failure, and what else could it be?  Then every diet, ever created, has proved a dismal failure.  To this day, not a single one of these diets, often suggested to be scientific, have ever been subjected to scrutiny.  No valid research has ever been conducted to determine whether a diet could be harmful to the body or have any benefits whatsoever.  In short, there is no magic diet, there never was and there never will be, because No diets can work permanently.

I ask you to please turn on your common sense for a moment and follow me on this: The fact is that when you deprive your body of food it will switch into famine mode.  That’s the only natural response it can offer and that means it will slow down your metabolism to a crawl and store all but the most essential foods on your body as fat.  The ultimate result of any diet will always, inevitably end up a weight gain NOT a weight loss.

The less you eat, the more your body will panic and the more extreme is the response.  The more often you go on a diet the quicker you are likely to trigger a famine alert.  That means, the more you diet the sooner you will fail to lose weight.

Any diet that deprives you of food will always have the same result…failure. You may be a strong willed person, who has the persistence and resolve to stick to a diet to the conclusion.  But once you weight has gone so has your reason for dieting and at some point you will have to stop. Sooner or later, bit by bit you will begin to relax.  no one can sustain hunger and food cravings forever.  Eventually the weight will return triumphant.

Once it is all back, your body won’t stop there.  It will always demand some extra weight as a buffer against the next famine.  And so it goes, around the merry-go-round.  At some point, down the road, you will decide never to diet again, What is the point?   Exactly!

Unfortunately, if you have gone through this whole process, and you are back to your normal food intake, it may not be as easy as you think to stop your cravings.  Just ending a diet is not enough.  If your body has received a lot of diet abuse you could well be saddled with a permanent food addiction and that is going to compound your weight problem tenfold. By then, you could easily join the legion of people who have moved from overweight to obesity in just a short period of time.  From there it is only a quick step to type2 diabetes.

I cannot prove what causes the body to suddenly trigger a rash of food cravings.  But I can give you an educated guess.  You have switched to food groups your body has not been designed to process.  Foods that nature never intended you to eat in the first place.  At the same time, you intermittently cut down your overall intake of food.  You confuse your metabolism with inconsistency. Sometimes you diet, sometimes not.  At other times you over eat.  To top it off, you favor foods which look good and give the illusion of satisfaction and you pay little or no attention to the most important food of all.

Your body is no wiser than you are, least of all to the question of whether or when you are likely to starve yourself on a diet and when you are likely to stop.  So maybe it has gone into permanent famine mode.  That means it will send hunger and craving messages to your brain even when you have just finished eating. Cravings can be very powerful.  Ask any addict.

This is not something new that has come along in the last couple of years.  This is something that has been growing slowly and insidiously for thirty to forty years.  Basically since we decided to improve on nature and design better, more attractive and more healthy looking foods, (and people) than those nature designed.  That is not to say that nature designed us to eat caveman food.  Nature has proved it can be flexible, but it has its limits.

We all know that this is not the only time people have decided to improve on nature; look at climate change.  The only thing that seems to be certain is that when we pick a fight with nature and we go too far, we lose….Always!

Kirsten Plotkin Author