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"What is the best way to build a large number of affiliates selling your e-book?"

Demonstrate to them that they will make money!

Put yourself in their shoes. If you can prove to them that you've got a great product, strong sales conversion on your Web site, and low returns, they are more likely to promote it for you.

So you must first prove this to yourself. Some businesses try to lure affiliates by offering high commissions and on-going income streams. Sure, this is nice, but it's the icing on the cake. If you can't sell the product yourself, it's highly unlikely that good affiliates will be interested in selling it for you.

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"Once I create a product (easy part for me), how can I do some types of joint ventures with internet marketers and companies to market the ebook to their huge lists (hard part for me)."

This is an excellent question, and most businesses under-estimate the effort required to make this work.

The most important thing you should do first is to make sure you can sell the product yourself! Until you've got a provable, reliable and measurable sales process on your Web site, the big list owners won't touch you with a barge pole. After all, why should they? They've invested a lot of time, money and effort building a list, and they probably receive many joint venture requests just like yours. They are far more likely to choose those that are likely to succeed for them.

So first earn the right! Learn how to make your site sell, and then start looking for joint venture partners.

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"How do I make money from a website that is primarily a search engine / information resource for a specific industry?"

Become an affiliate.

What this means is that you look around for people selling products in that industry, and check whether they have an "affiliate program". If they do, it means that they pay you a commission for every sale that comes from you referring somebody to them. Sign up for the affiliate program and you'll get a special link to use on your Web site. When you refer people to their site, use this link.

The only catch is that you really should buy the products first, so that you ensure that you're referring people to high-quality products. This means that it could be a high initial investment to buy and evaluate all these products.

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"How do I make and manage an Affiliate Program for my site?"

You require some affiliate program software. You either install it on your site, or you use affiliate software that is installed on the vendor's site.

The affiliate program that most of the big-name Internet marketers use is called 1ShoppingCart. It's also available under different "private label" names, but in effect they are all the same. I am a customer, under the private label Web Marketing Magic.

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