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© Jonathan Kraft
Some people wonder about selling cards from their site.
They think that it maybe isn’t a legitimate business, or perhaps, they
just don’t want to sell something on their web site.
The fact is, however, that calling cards are used around
the world every day. People want to talk to their friends, and they
need inexpensive ways of doing so. Often, it’s very expensive to make
national or international phone calls using a home phone service, and
using a cell phone ticks away minutes on the cell phone’s plan. This
leaves two options: Voice over IP, and calling cards. VOIP technology
is so new that many people don’t yet understand how it works. This will
change in the next 5-10 years, but in the meantime, the option for
calling is calling cards. Calling cards are simple to use, so people
are willing to pick them up and use them all around the world.
Statistics prove it. In the United States alone, calling
card sales generate more than 4 billion dollars per year. By 2010,
annual revenue is forecasted to reach over 10 Billion dollars!
So why should you sell calling cards on your web site?
Three reasons: it’s simple, it supplements your income,
and virtually any web site can do it.
It generally takes about 5 minutes to sign up for a
calling card affiliate program, and you’re up and running. It takes
some additional time to take care of paperwork for tax reasons, but
most programs let you do that down the road. Most phone card affiliate
programs these days give you the option of simply cutting and pasting
code which will place a search box right into your web layout, wherever
you choose to put it. These things make a calling card affiliate
program simple.
There is a lot of money being made in affiliate programs
right now, with phone and calling cards being one of the market leaders
in the affiliate program arena. There are people working who are
exclusively selling calling cards and phone service, who are making
multiple 6 figure incomes from calling cards, phone cards, and phone
service. With a 10 billion dollar market available, there’s a big pie
to bring to market. This supplemental income really does make a
difference in doing more than just getting the bills paid!
So the question is how you can incorporate calling cards
into your existing web site. While it is true that not all web sites
can effectively and unobtrusively incorporate calling card search forms
into their sites (an auto dealership site might not be the best place
for a calling card search), there are many sites that could place a
calling card or phone search on their sites quite simply. Example of
this include; a real estate agent placing a calling card or phone rate
search within their site for a new homeowner, a study abroad exchange
student posting pictures online who offers their friends a calling card
search for cheap ways to call them, a travel site offering customers a
phone card search for wherever they’re traveling to or from, a state
government site showing site visitors ways to save money on phone
service in their state, and the list goes on.
When it comes down to it, the market is predicted to
grow to 10 Billion by 2009. I don’t know about you, but thinking about
a 10 Billion dollar pie, I’d sure like a slice. (I’d be happy if I
could just lick the knife!) Either you and your site visitors will buy
calling cards through your site, or you’ll buy them through someone
else’s. By setting up a calling card affiliate program, you give
yourself an additional way to cash in on what's going on in the
affiliate program market.
Jonathan Kraft has been an online marketer for many
years and helps others with affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us
Most recently, he has helped people find the best phone and calling
card affiliate programs at http://www.affiliateadvice.us/phone-calling-card-affiliate-programs.html
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