Internet and affiliate marketing is a way off earning some extra money online. Affiliate marketing works as simple as you send traffic and potential customers through a tracked link to a company and you then get a commission for the ones who become a paying customer. Almost every large company online offers this type of affiliate program. They all want more traffic and having many affiliates sending large volumes becomes very profitable for them, in fact most companies online have adopted this method of business growth.

Affiliate marketing should not be overlooked as it can produce huge incomes with no income cap. Many marketers become affiliates of multiple programs and create some kind of multiple residual income streams, being commissioned from many affiliate networks all at once. This is very achievable and is not a new trend. In fact affiliate marketing has been going on right back to when business first started using the Internet as a sales stream.

This does not mean affiliate marketing is easy. It requires work and lots of learning to get to understand how it all runs and performs. Its like any industry, you cant expect to apply for a job as a doctor and put somebody under the knife if you don’t know what your doing. Having said that, unlike training for most professions, your best bet is to get your hands dirty and jump right in. Learn as you go and start from scratch.

Affiliate marketing has seen many changes over time. This is mainly due to the changes in search behaviour, search engines changing how they work and also the large numbers in new affiliates joining daily. The Internet has billions of dollars changing hands daily and with the current economic climate many people are looking for a way to make more money from home, usually as an extra income on top of their current job. They turn to the Internet to get in on the large amounts of money to be made.

Something which is now being called the future of affiliate marketing is pay per call. Pay per call is not a new concept but is being taken more seriously now with all the changes taking place. In fact it is currently undergoing lots of hype as the affiliate marketing tool of the future starting 2011. Pay per call is an extremely hot concept and will open up massive income potential and opportunities for all. The competition was starting to become crowded online especially for newbies. With pay per call you can build relations with local offline companies and promote a unique phone number which tracks the calls back to you. Some companies pay between $10 to $50 per phone lead, in fact I have even seen an example of somebody getting $100 per phone lead.

The opportunity with pay per call is extremely profitable and very much the future. Small offline companies are currently losing all of their business to the successful competitors which currently gain from a really good ranked website.

A small example. Plumbers in Dallas searched in Google will display only ten on the first page. Many searches don’t spill over onto pages two or three and therefore the fortunate ten are getting all the business. When you compare this to Dallas having over 200 plumbers you can see the bigger picture. Also to top this, People are gradually coming away from using hard back indexes such as white pages and an increase has been seen in people searching from there smart phones using Google. Unfortunately this trend will see many smaller companies go under eventually.

I think you understand the power of pay per call. Small offline companies are crying out for more business and using pay per call you can achieve this. Set up multiple campaigns and your potential income can be huge. In fact there is no earning cap for you, simple continue to promote more numbers helping these smaller companies.

2011 will see this trend explode.