The biggest companies want to sell their products and services
on the Internet. One of the best ways to market their products
and services online is by offering a commission to website
owners. This is done by setting up an affiliate program where
webmasters can pick up the links to offers and promote them on
their web sites in exchange for affiliate commissions for each
sale made.

Webmasters have many ways to promote these affiliate offers - on
websites, by email, with pay-per-click search engines, writing
and distributing articles, etc.

However, a little-known way to promote these offers is by using
incentives to online surfers who agree to buy a product or
service from the webmaster.

One of the best ways to market incentive offers is by building a
membership-based website and giving free cash to members who
agree to accept affiliate products and services.

Here are the steps for setting up a successful incentive-based
website:

1. You'll have to build a database-driven website where new
members can sign up and start browsing offers after logging in.
Such websites usually promote at least a hundred of various
offers. You should offer your members about 50% of the
commission that you recieve from an affiliate program.

One of the biggest disadvantages in starting an incentive-based
website is that the scripts for running such program are quite
complicated. However, if you don't know Internet programming and
cannot build the website by yourself, you can hire someone to
create the scripts for you or purchase them online.

2. After your website is up and running, you should apply for
affiliate networks that allow incentive traffic. When your
application is approved you should set up offers on your website.

3. You should market the incentive offers not only on your
website but by email too. Sending paid email to your members is
one of the best ways to increase your profit. You should reward
your members with a certain amount of cash for reading each paid
email and redirect them to affiliate offers where they can earn
even more extra cash by accepting the offers.

4. Since the incentive traffic is usually limited to certain
countries, you should promote your website to the visitors of
these countries only. The best ways to drive targeted traffic to
your incentive-based website are: pay-per-click search engines,
email marketing and affiliate marketing (by setting up your own
affiliate program).

5. You should manage your website by setting up new offers,
paying members their earned payments, suspending fraudulent
accounts and tracking your website advertising campaigns.

Some incentive-based websites offer a point system. It means
that members earn points instead of cash. Later these points can
be redeemed for cash or any other items.

Incentive marketing on the Internet can be very profitable.
Anyone can start an excellent home-business online within
several weeks and run it spending only a couple of hours per
day. It doesn't require any complicated and time-consuming
content writing for websites and newsletters. The investment in
scripts is low.



About the author:
Gerardas Norkus is an author of "Paid Email Business Secrets"
eBook that reveals a step-by-step system for running a highly href="http://www.paidemailbusiness.com">profitable home-business
on the Internet.