How would I start a prepaid gift card business?
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If you're thinking of joining an affiliate program and don't know which affiliate program to join, consider gift cards and prepaid credit cards. In fact with affiliate marketing, you can start your own online (web-based) business selling prepaid credit cards and gift cards. You can also include regular credit cards. Almost everyone needs or wants a credit card. Also, for gift-giving, many people don't know which gift to give and gift cards, especially generic gift cards like Gift Visas and Gift Mastercards where you can use the cards to purchase merchandise like a regular Visa and regular Mastercard are becoming popular. Also, there's a lot of "regifting" and so with gift cards people can purchase what they want. These types of cards are also reloadable. Gift cards are also used by businesses as employee and customer incentives and rewards, so that your customer base is also business to business, some businesses perhaps even buying gift cards in bulk.
So how do you get started?
First, you must have a website. You can have a website that focusses on financial and business matters and/or it can be almost any type of website since almost everyone is interested in credit cards. Your website does not have to be specific to gift and credit card themes. Some credit card affiliate programs also provide you with your own credit card reseller website, although usually there's a fee. For example, cashflowfromcreditcards.com provides you with your own reseller website, but there's a charge of $99.95 plus $9.99/month. It's better if you're just a beginner at affiliate marketing to set up your own free website and place a banner on your website. For all those who sign up via your banner from your website you receive a percentage of sales. That is, they click on your banner then go to the company website. Your banner or text link contains your affiliate ID. The affiliate ID can be a nickname or a number. Usually if it's a nickname you select your own; if it's a number generally it's assigned to you by the company that has started the affiliate program. (The subsequent links in this article provide examples.) Sometimes there's a percentage per click and/or lead, depending on the guideliness of the affiliate program or the affiliate network.
There are many free websites. For information go to:
http://www.allprofitallfree.com/... which provides all the information you need to design, build and make money from your website. Also there is a link to various free websites. We also suggest bravenet.com, freewebs.com, webspawner.com, zoomshare.com. You can also set up a "virtual store" at the following website:
http://www.vstore.ca/?ref=fnbpublica...
This provides free templates and scripts for almost any type of store. Once you set up your store, you can then join a credit card or gift card affiliate program, and place a banner on your store website.
You can also set up a virtual store at:
http://www.instantestore.com/default.cfm...
Here are some website that you can go to for more information on gift card and prepaid credit card and general credit card affiliate programs:
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You can also go to the following affiliate network:
Associateprograms.com
http://www.associateprograms.com/search/...
Other affiliate networks include Clixgalore.com, Commission Junction, and Clickslink.com and others also have credit and gift card affiliate programs. These are just a few samples, and again, more information can be easily found online.
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The above answer looks great! Great information about starting the business. Good luck!
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