American Express continues to be successful company since the 1800s. They've weathered the most challenging economical times and continue to prosper. AMEX is a synonymous brand known across the world and the originator of the black card owned by elite celebrities and private billionaires-millionaires. And now, American Express introduces another umbrella of their successful affiliate marketing program.
Owning a blog or website is becoming just as important as putting close on daily and going to a day job. Even if you're not in affiliate marketing it's virtually becoming a necessity. The beauty of owning a blog and daily blogging is building a loyal audience to anything you write and publish to your site. That said, blogging creates opportunity for you, the blogger, to earn good money by way of partnering with quality advertisers and placing their advertisements on your blog so you can earn commissions as an affiliate marketer. This is where the beauty of the American Express affiliate program comes in.
AMEX has a new affiliate program under their existing online marketing umbrella known as the "American Express Payment Gateway Affiliate.
A quick description of this affiliate program: (AmericanExpressOPEN)
"A flexible global gateway solution for accepting all major payment types, that provides comprehensive data protection and fraud management tools for your valued merchants. Recommend the American Express Payment Gateway, and help your business by extending our renowned service and security to your clients."
When you partner with American Express and have their advertisements on your site, it adds to your online blogging and marketing credibility when readers see a big-name advertiser on your blog site as a sponsored merchant. As you continue to blog on a daily basis and keep your readers meaningfully engaged, you increase the probability of advertisements on your blog by American Express to convert into what's called "affiliate commissions." Earning a commission as an affiliate marketer is a process of your blog reader (s) clicking an advert, signing up for a service or purchasing something, and you earning what's called an "affiliate commission." This is the beauty of affiliate marketing; something that can be done from anywhere in the world by way of a computer and Internet connection.
Niche Blogs
You pretty much don't have to worry about having a niche blog when you partner with the American Express affiliate program. The beauty of being an American Express affiliate is that you can have a blog or website about food, business, finance, education, travel, online shopping, food reviews, health, and the list goes on. AMEX affiliate program is versatile and pretty much goes well with all niche sites, for the exception of porno and anything that's deemed negative.
If you have a site that adds value to people's lives such as giving away free health and weight loss tips, you can buddy up American express affiliate advertisements alongside existing affiliate adverts you already have on your health and fitness blog. Doing so increases your probability of increasing the probability of earning multiple streams of income from different affiliate programs.
Domain and Web Hosting
You must own your own domain and blog-website for consideration into the American Express affiliate program. Another words, you can go start a free blog on Google's Blogger-Blogspot. That's an absolute no-no. You're going to need to purchase a domain name which you can pretty much get for a very affordable price online. Web hosting is also affordable. The reason for purchasing a domain name and reserving a good dedicated web host is to make an investment in your Internet business "blog or website" being taken seriously by your site visitors.
American Express will know after you submit your publisher application if you have your own blog or website hosted on your own domain. Forking out the money is worth it if you desire for your business to prosper 3 to 4 years down the road from now. Take the leap of faith and shell out the dough.
Register here on American Express as an affiliate-publisher with the American Express payment Gateway affiliate program.
'Affiliate Income'
Affiliate marketing is growing daily in popularity and is good money. However, it's no get rich quick overnight operation. If you want to earn good money from affiliate programs on the Internet you have to take the first leap of faith through domain name ownership and starting your own professional blog or website. Work faithfully and diligently and building up your site content and focus intensely on building positive and sustainable relationships with your blog readers-website visitors.
Publish engaging and thought-provoking blogs that'll invoke discussion and entice your readers to share your blogs on their favorite social networks. When she driving to make money from the American Express affiliate program or any affiliate program, don't focus on making money online. Your job as an Internet marketer is to create and share quality and informative content with your targeted online audience so you can provide value to your readers. When readers-site visitors are digging what you're about and the content you publish daily, it is then and only then you'll slowly and surely start to accumulate commissions from affiliate programs on your blog such as American Express. Put people first before money and you may end up being more successful than hoped for as an affiliate marketer-blogger.