Best of breed is a term coined by the financial industry. It describes the top company within a given industry. As you may already know the top few percent of companies earn the majority of the money. This phenomenon accounts for why companies like Apple and Microsoft account for nearly all of the computer software market. It also explains how the richest 2% of adults in the world control over half the world’s wealth. The same principle holds true for poker affiliates. The top few poker affiliates take most of the profits. These poker affiliates are the best at marketing and get number one search rankings for top poker search keywords.  Most importantly, they have relentless work ethics and think for the long term.

The top poker affiliates are never born overnight. Successful poker affiliate marketing takes many months, even years to gain traction. The affiliate industry is tough because of its super-saturation. It seems like everyone is a poker affiliate these days - making the industry difficult to penetrate. New poker websites are opening up everyday and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. The explosive growth in the popularity of online poker has trickled down to affiliateship. Thankfully, these new poker affiliates have little to no clue how to operate successfully.

Understanding the business of poker affiliateship is difficult for most people. They think that aesthetics, web design and generic reviews alone will make them thousands of dollars each month. This couldn’t be any farther from the truth making this reality a tough thing to swallow for most people. Even new poker affiliates with great ideas often falter when they fail to see big profits right away. The need for immediate satisfaction and gratification lead to ruin for most websites.

If you are a poker player yourself, think about the learning curve and work you had to put in just to grind out a small profit. Most people don’t start playing poker right away and crush games immediately. Instead, they often lose money in the beginning until they finally improve their skills and playing habits. The same type of "dip" occurs in poker affiliate life. You will often earn little to no money for the first year, until you learn the business.  Things like search engine optimization, keyword targeting and being relentless separate successful affiliates from failing ones.

Are you willing to work on your poker affiliate website or marketing campaign even though money isn’t coming in right away? If you can’t push yourself to do so you might as well quit now because you have no shot at making money. Working hard regardless of reward for the first year is key in building a great poker affiliate website. Seeing the bigger picture means you make small and constant strides over the long term. Then after a few years you have hundreds or thousands of poker articles and tons of content. Then you learn to target poker related keywords and get steady traffic. After you have done these things, profits are inevitable. Remember, some poker affiliates go for years making little to know money, then break through and start earning five and six figure monthly income.

Being a poker affiliate is more than writing a few sloppy articles and splashing advertisements on your website. It takes perseverance and constant work. Learn to create unique and clean looking website pages. Then learn to write keyword rich poker content on a daily basis. Finally, tweak your strategy and adapt to changing poker affiliate marketing conditions. Study your statistics and never stop striving for an edge in the affiliate industry. If you are able and willing to carry out all of the things described above, you are already ahead of 99% of the poker affiliates out there.

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Offline poker affiliate marketing is one of the most overlooked venues for potential player conversions. In some cases affiliates can make more money marketing offline than online. Whether out of fear, laziness or simply not knowing - few people attempt to market poker in their everyday life. If you are the type of affiliate struggling to convert players online, maybe it is time to try the live approach. With a little hard work offline marketing could give you a nice player base to get started.

Networking is not only a great way to find a job, but also a way to recruit new poker players. Many avenues of our daily social life bring us face to face with potential new poker conversions. Offline affiliate marketing doesn’t have to be about door to door solicitations.Think about all of the places you go throughout the day where you naturally interact with other people. Maybe you go to get your haircut at the local barber shop, or maybe you are a frequent drinker who likes the local sports bar. These are great places to start an offline marketing campaign.  Affiliate marketing doesn’t have to be fancy at all. It can simply be interacting with people throughout your day and dropping off a few business cards. Here are a few great places to start offline affiliate marketing.

Shopping Malls

People tend to be very open to solicitation at shopping malls. Chances are if they are already shopping, they are more open to a poker proposal. They might naturally let their guard down and listen to your poker proposal or accept your business card.

Barber Shop

Drop off a handful of business cards wherever you get your haircut. If you don’t feel up to talking to people directly, stash a few poker business cards in the front page of a magazine or leave them on a counter.

People play poker for a variety of reasons, but people become poker affiliates for only one reason. People choose to promote poker to make money. While a successful poker player can make a lot of money, a successful affiliate can make several times that. Some of the top performing poker affiliates are making six figures annually. Affiliate revenue doesn’t have swings like the game of poker does. Income is based strictly on the amount of players referred. Whether you choose the flat commission or percentage revenue plan, your long term affiliate earnings will be based on the amount of people you refer. It doesn’t get any clearer than that. Now that you know why people promote poker, here are some reasons you should sign up.

Pad Your Bankroll

Most affiliate earnings are released through player accounts. Meaning, poker sites deposit your affiliate earnings directly into your poker account. You can either cash these earnings out or play poker with it. For poker players wishing to pad their bankroll, they can use affiliate revenue  to play.  For beginning players with small bankrolls, affiliate commissions will definitely become useful by allowing you to play at higher limits earlier. Instead of grinding away at micro limit games you can move up levels using your affiliate commissions to make even more money.

Promote the Game

Although monetary rewards are the main reason people become poker affiliates it never hurts to promote the game you love. Referring fellow poker players helps the strength of the industry, ensuring that you will have people to play against for years to come. You may even make money off of one of your referred players in a live game.  Poker promotion also helps grow the games popularity and acceptance in society. Lets face it, recent legislature by the federal government has threatened the survival of online poker. Building the volume of players helps ensure the games existence in the future.

Free and Easy

Becoming a poker affiliate is both free and easy. You don’t necessarily even need a website to get started. Poker affiliates can use bonus codes and tracking links to get credit for players they refer. They can also use mailing campaigns or pass on information by word of mouth to friends and family. Poker affiliate programs are completely free other than the time you invest in working on promotion.

Growing Industry

Online gaming is a growing industry. With the widespread popularity of the World Series of Poker televised, more and more people are giving online poker a try. The movie, "Rounders" has also inspired thousands of people around the world to play texas holdem poker. After a recent setback resulting from harmful federal legislature, poker seems to be making a comeback.  As more people log on to the internet, poker should grow in popularity. Already a multi-billion dollar industry, only gaming will only increase. This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and make some serious money.

Promoting online poker is a great way to make supplemental income. Whether you are new to the poker scene or a seasoned player, you can make money promoting online poker. Poker affiliate programs are 100% free and easier than you could imagine. You have absolutely nothing to lose since these programs cost nothing - other than potential profits you could be missing. Get started promoting poker today and check out featured poker affiliate programs.