[Review] Affiliate Marketing Companies - Host Rocket
The basic premise behind affiliate marketing - and I'll refer to "online" affiliate marketing for the purpose of these reviews - is that as an affiliate, you are able to promote and find paid to sell alternative people's/companies product via your web site. The great advantage in being associate "affiliate," is that normally you have no products to inventory or ship. Almost all of these companies upload their products onto your site, and you get paid when a sale is made through your site. Although there is slight variations during this business model, most affiliate marketing companies employ the some basic concept. In this series of articles, I will be attempting to give you a fair and honest assessment of online companies that offer work from home affiliate marketing opportunities.
Host Rocket
Host Rocket is a 13-year old corporation providing website design and web, e-commerce and application hosting to over 50,000 websites. Like all affiliate marketing companies, HotRocket.Com, Inc. pays you after you build a buying deal through their company. In this case, you can earn $150 for everyone you send to their site who buys one of their hosting packages. When you run the numbers that adds up to a significant income if you're willing to do whatever it takes (writing articles, blogging, etc) to generate traffic. For example, let's say you send one visitor per day to their site that makes a purchase: 7 x $150 = $1050 per week, or $54,600 per year. I'm giving you conservative numbers here because once your articles and blogs start to get noticed, your income will increase exponentially.Pros:
· Well-established web-hosting company
· Generous pay-outs
· High conversion rate (meaning a considerable variety of individuals you send to their web site can build a procurement.
Cons:
· Web-hosting is one of the most competitive arenas in the world
· Too many of complaints on the Internet about this company, not necessarily from affiliates, but from the companies for whom they host.
Rating: C
1. Is this really a legitimate business?
2. is that this a chance that might be "fun" for me?
3. Can I afford this opportunity?
4. will this business afford American state the chance to satisfy my semipermanent money goals?