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Amazon is arguably the first company to embrace the concept of affiliate marketing in a major way. Still, it took Amazon nearly ten years to turn a profit for the effort. Of late, as the internet pros continue to invent & innovate the basics that support the concept of affiliate marketing many affiliate marketers can now begin to turn a profit in as little as a few weeks.

FYI, genuine affiliate marketing boils down to this: People get paid for selling other peoples stuff on line, and that's it. Why do businesses want to pay affiliate marketers? Because affiliate marketers typically understand the basics of how to drive & direct internet traffic. As an analogy, musicians take a mere 11 notes (the basic raw material of music) and are able to compose an infinite number of songs. Some songs reach the imagination of the people and they make the composer some money. Others do not. Affiliate marketing is rather like that. Take the basics of surfing the internet and apply them in original ways that drive traffic (traffic being the music of the internet) to web sites where sales of items are made. The number of original ways to apply the basics in order to drive traffic are as infinite as the songs that can be created by 11 notes. Meanwhile,

Affiliate marketing seems to have swiftly progressed to the point that we now have a reality show where people compete to see how much money they can make on line, the fastest.... Talk about a capitalists wet dream, eh? The show has quite a number of sponsors that include such names as Sprint, Logitech, and the Lincoln Nebraska Convention and Visitors bureau, the city where the show will be recorded... And they have some very nice prizes for the winner of the contest that include, cash and a 2008 Jeep Patriot.

Out of the people who submitted applications in the form of on line videos that began in March 2008 there were 12 contestants chosen to be contestants on June 15^th, with the contest itself to begin on June 30^th.

The contest is arranged into three teams, made up of four contestants and one coach each. All of the contestants and the coaches are affiliate marketers, and some are already full time in the industry. The coaches, John Chow, Ken Macarthur, and Jeremy Shoemacher (who everyone calls "Shoemoney") are considered to be Gurus in the profession of affiliate marketing and will lead their respective groups into the on line world of affiliate marketing, the objective being to see which team as well as which contestant can make the most money on line.

Shoemoney says, "what you really need to have in order to be successful as an affiliate marketer is work ethic. Everything else can be learned". Shoemoney also maintains that new people to the industry stand to learn a great deal about how to make money on line by watching the contestants compete.

Johnathon Van Clute, Ty Hurd, Chad Van Norman, "Big" Jason Henderson, and "Help me" Rhonda Del Boccio are five of the twelve contestants who along with the shows promoter Thor Schrock made their first media appearance as a group on my internet radio show after learning only hours earlier they had made the cut as one of the 12 contestants. The show had a most enthusiastic tone to be sure. Each contestant I interviewed indicated they have received benefit simply by the process of getting picked.

What's my personal take on this? If you are in any way smitten with the entrepreneurial spirit, then you really want to view each 30 minute show for at least it's educational value. Each show will air on the "Top Affiliate Challenge" web site from July 1^st through July 15^th beginning at, 1 PM CST and will stay up on the site a full 24 hours for those who want to down load and save the shows. Tune in and you are likely to learn much from the pros on how to set up and operate an affiliate marketing business. And it's all free.

For more information and to access "Top Affiliate Challenge" web site, go to the front page of my radio show web site www.garyjamesradioshow.com and click on the link for "Top Affiliate Challenge". Be Well....Expect Success.