Web Cam plus Ideas equal Profits!

The latest craze are videos. You know it and I know it. Youtube is the biggest video sharing site on the web and guess what, the smart people are using it to make serious money on the web!

With a simple video camera or web cam you have the opportunity to reach out to millions of people. By playing your cards right, you can win the interest of your viewers as well as make huge money with affiliate programs!

Do you know what affiliate programs are? An affiliate program is a simple system where YOU, the affiliate, promote other people's products online by signing up to their affiliate program and in return you can make commissions for each sale you refer through your referral link.

The coolest thing about using video and affiliate programs are that you basically don't incur any cost!

If you are creating videos that has to do with dog training, then you can easily sign up to a free dog training affiliate program and show the link in your video or even put it on your video's profile.

But affiliate links are usually very long, so you'll need to shorten it by purchasing your own domain name.

It will cost you a measly $9 in total. Go to a website called GoDaddy and then purchase your domain there. Then set up DOMAIN MASKING also called URL MASKING and set it so that it redirects your domain to your affiliate link. That means that if somebody loads your domain in their browser, it redirects them to the affiliate link.

If you don't have a clue what this is or how to do this, just contact GoDaddy support and they'll assist you very quickly.

So what types of products should you promote via video?

First of all, you get 2 types of products:

1. Digital products

2. Physical products

When you are promoting an affiliate product using videos, promote a PHYSICAL product. You should showcase the product in your videos.

The problem is, most people don't have the money to actually purchase the product. There is a solution to this problem.

Ask your affiliate manager or the merchant if they can send you a sample of the product for free or even the product itself.

Tell them that you want to create a fully blown video series on the product and that the product will be featured on several videos. For instance, if you are promoting a certain dog training DVD course, you can show people videos of a disobedient dog and then show them the DVD course in the video afterwards. It's very powerful and it works! They will definitely type your domain into the browser and then boom, they'll go through your hidden referral link!

But what about digital products then?

The only digital products I recommend you promote are services which people can sign up for free and you get paid. Like the social site Yuwee and other CPA affiliate offers. Just Google "CPA Affiliate Program" and sign up to a few.

Just remember that whatever product you are promoting on your video, it HAS to be relevant to what your video is about!

And my BIGGEST piece of advice is to create a full series of videos on the same topic. If your videos are about disobedient dogs, then keep them all on that topic! This will allow you to give multiple exposure to your affiliate product.

So to conclude, video and affiliate programs are the way to go for 2008. If you want to make extra money working from home, then this is it!