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Participating in affiliate programs as an internet marketing

company affiliate is a viable way to make money on the internet

without having your own products and services for sale. In

essence, as an internet marketing company affiliate, you market

other companies’ products and services for a fee.

Generally affiliate programs are either one-tier or two-tier

programs which means if you participate in a one-tier program,

you get paid for referrals that you send to the company for which

you are an internet marketing company affiliate. If you

participate in a two-tier program, you also get paid for

referring other affiliates to the program.

In most affiliate programs, an internet marketing company

affiliate gets paid either a percentage of sales that result from

their referrals, or a flat fee per lead or click-through that

result from their internet marketing efforts.

The defective line of thinking that leads an internet marketing

company affiliate to failure and disappointment is the thought

that being an internet marketing company affiliate is an easy,

get-rich-quick business opportunity. Unsuccessful internet

marketing company affiliates are those who don’t realize that in

order to make money with affiliate programs you have to actively

market them.

The error that is common to a new internet marketing company

affiliate is that they launch a website to display links, or even

pages, for the purpose of promoting various affiliate programs

for which they are an internet marketing company affiliate for,

but they don’t actively market their website or their affiliate

products. As a result, their website doesn’t generate any revenue

or generates very little revenue.

To be a successful internet marketing company affiliate you

absolutely have to market your affiliate products and services.

You can actually make loads of money as an internet marketing

company affiliate, but affiliate marketing is not a get-rich-

quick scheme. It is a business opportunity that must be taken

seriously and it does require work, some internet marketing

knowledge, and some funding for launching an aggressive internet

marketing campaign.

Because you don’t have to put out money for product development

or inventory, starting an internet business as an internet

marketing company affiliate may not require as much of an

investment as other types of internet businesses, but assuming

that it is a zero-investment venture is flawed thinking.

For most programs, as an internet marketing company affiliate you

have to have a website through which you market your affiliate

programs because some affiliate programs view your website as

part of their approval process and some only allow you to use

affiliate links to them on a website. In addition to the

investment involved with website development an internet

marketing company affiliate also needs funding for internet

marketing of the affiliate programs.

Common internet marketing methods used by an internet marketing

company affiliate to promote affiliate programs include search

engine marketing, email marketing, linking campaigns,

distribution of expert articles, viral marketing, and

participation in online newsgroups and forums.

Purchasing advertising through pay-per-click search engines,

ezines, directories and so forth is also a method of internet

marketing that is conducive to promoting affiliate products and

services as an internet marketing company affiliate.

One thing is for certain. In order to make serious money as an

internet marketing company affiliate, you simply have to market

the products and services of your affiliate programs.

Some website operators join affiliate programs and become an

internet marketing company affiliates for the purpose of

supplementing their income a little while providing their website

visitors with easy access to products and services that may be

beneficial to them. For them, actively marketing affiliate

programs may not be a necessity because the affiliate programs

are not their primary source of income.

However, if you desire to be an internet marketing company

affiliate who generates revenue solely from affiliate programs,

you must be an active internet marketer.

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Starting and operating your own home based business is

the ultimate tax shelter.

Although this article has been written from a Canadian

income tax perspective, the principles should be

practical in other tax jurisdictions.

1. Non-Deductible Personal Living Expenses

All of us have expenses that we incur in everyday

living.

Either you rent an apartment or house or you own your

residence. Utilities, insurance, rent, mortgage

interest, property taxes, and maintenance and repairs

are typical costs of operating your home.

Likely, you have a vehicle which also consumes large

amounts of cash.

Add to this, dining out, entertainment, gifts,

alcoholic beverages, office supplies, telephone and

many other expenditures, and you have a significant

cash outflow.

In most cases, as an employee, retired person,

investor, student, or homemaker, few of these

expenses are tax-deductible to you.

This means that you must earn a considerable income,

pay your income taxes first, and then use what is

left to pay all your expenses.

Some employees may be able to write-off some of

their employment related expenses, if such are

required by their contract of employment. However,

even in this situation, the tax deductions are very

limited.

2. Your Own Home Based Business Means Tax Deductions

Now consider the situation where you decide to start

your own home based business.

Suddenly, many of your everyday expenses are now being

used for business purposes and are now tax-deductible.

If you use one quarter of your home exclusively for

business use, you will be able to deduct (or write-off)

one quarter of all related occupancy costs. These

expenses may include maintenance and repairs (that are

not capital in nature), rent, mortgage interest, house

or apartment insurance, power, heat, water, and

property taxes.

As well, your vehicle expenses used for business

purposes are another tax write-off. If you use your

car ninety percent for business purposes, you can

deduct ninety percent of your vehicle insurance, gas

and oil, maintenance and repairs, car washes, license

and registration, auto club, loan interest (within

certain limits), and other costs from your income.

You may also write-off one hundred percent of your

business related parking. Capital Cost Allownance

(C.C.A.) on your vehicle is also allowed for income tax

purposes; depreciation is the accounting term for this

tax deduction.

The Canadian government also allows as a deduction,

fifty percent of your business related entertainment

expenses.

Also tax-deductible are business related telephone

expenses, Internet access, office supplies, travel,

books, memberships, and a host of other expenditures.

3. Income Splitting with Your Home Based Business

If you have a high paying job, you will pay higher

taxes because the rates of tax increase as your income

does.

With your own business, you can pay reasonable wages to

your spouse and children. In this way, you can legally

divert income taxed at your higher rate to your family

members that are in a lower tax bracket.

This tax saving technique is called income splitting.

It is another good reason why your own home based

business is the ultimate tax shelter.

4. Even a Part-Time Home Based Business Works

Even if you have a full-time job, running a part-time

business can be advantageous.

Of course, you must actually run a real, moneymaking

business. Any attempts to write unprofitable hobbies

off will ultimately fail with the taxation authorities.

If you earned eight thousand dollars during the year

from your part-time business and were able to deduct

eight thousand dollars in car expenses, home office

expenses, entertainment costs, office supplies, and

other business related expenditures, you would have a

net business income of nil. You would pay no tax on

this additional income.

Don`t miss this important point! Although these tax

deductions are actual, legitimate business expenses,

these are expenditures you would probably have made

anyway, whether you had a business or not.

Thus, by rearranging your affairs to start and operate

a home based business, you have been able to convert

non-deductible personal expenditures into legally

deductible business expenses. You have successfully

sheltered your income from tax and have split your

income with family members in lower tax brackets.

Yes, indeed, your home based business has become

your ultimate tax shelter.

RESOURCE BOX:

J. Stephen Pope, President of Pope Consulting Inc., http://www.popeconsultinginc.com/ has been helping clients to earn maximum business profits for over twenty-five years.

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