With so many choices on the Internet I can understand why so many people are confused and don’t know where to begin. For the most part, when people get confused they end up doing nothing!

Fortunately, there’s a no cost way to start learning the basics that will allow you to see the value of a long term approach to your business. “Bum Marketing” is a superb title to express a form of Article Marketing that is so simple, a bum could do it.

I’m sure that you are probably familiar with the use of articles as a means to market a procuct or even promote an affiliate company. Any time you read an article that has contact information at the end that allows you to find out more information about the article it is considered a marketing article.

When using a specialized type of article writing and the power of the internet you can actually earn commissions on products and services. Keep reading and I will explain it.

There are tons of affiliate programs and services that will let you offer their products and services at no cost to you. The best affiliate program I can guide you to is Clickbank. It is a wonderful source of digital downloads of e-books and software. When you sign up and create a unique identity for yourself, you can create affiliate links for products you wish to represent that will earn you a commission when a customer clicks on your link and buys the product. Below is a description of where you can put your links for free!

In order to attract people to view your offer and click on your affiliate links, you’ll need to “pre-sell” them and direct them to “read more about it”. The best way to do this is to write short, informative articles related to the benefits of your affiliate product and put those articles in front of thousands of readers. That’s where EzineArticles.com becomes your partner in your article marketing efforts. It’s an article directory that offers its content to ezine publishers, as long as they don’t change the articles and include the author’s “resource box”. That resource box is where you will put links to a landing page, a blog or a “redirect” to your affiliate sales page.

You can join ezinearticles.com for free, and begin writing and submitting articles immediately. Even if just one of your articles is reprinted in a popular ezine, you could receive hundreds or even thousands of “clicks” on your link in a very short period of time! Don’t worry if you don’t understand this right away. There’s more to come below!

Your articles will not only be available to readers of the site itself and the ezines that republish your articles. By using carefully chosen keywords in your article title and text, the search engines will pick up your articles as an “authoritative” source of information and put them up on their SERP’s – Search Engine Results Pages. For now, just know that a well written article with good keywords can end up on the first page of the SERP’s, which will bring you traffic for a long time to come.

The link you put in your resource box can be to a Web page you created (low cost or free), a blog (very low cost or free), or a “domain” that automatically sends your customer to the sales page for the affiliate product you are offering (low yearly cost). You can also get the contact information (name and email address) of your viewers with an “autoresponder”, to build a valuable list of people interested in your information (free or modest monthly cost).

If this has sparked your interest in finding out more about Bum Marketing, Just go to BumMarketing and get your copy free.

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Kathleen Dixon