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Great questions! Unfortunately, there are so many different aspects involved here that it’s next to impossible to give you any real amount of money or time frame .

To even reply here, I would need to make a whole lot of assumptions and/or need a bunch of questions answered.

First and most important, are you asking in reference to adding an affiliate program to your printing services … OR … are you speaking from being an affiliate marketer standpoint? (ie: You being an affiliate for someone else.)

Adding a properly built and properly run affiliate program can tremendously increase your sales. It’s like have your very own sales force selling your products/services for you – for fr.ee.

And at the other end of the spectrum, becoming an affiliate marketer is one of the more simplest of ways to make m0ney online. There’s no products to carry, no customer service, most affiliate program owners provide you with the marketing material you need, etc. etc. etc.

Do you have a product/service that you’re wanting to promote already chosen? If you don’t already have any chosen, do you know at least what niche you’re wanting to go with? Do you have a website/blog that you will be using for affiliate marketing?

Time frame? Again, I would need to know from which end you’re speaking, some of your plans to reach your goal as well as what exactly your goals are and the amount of time you want to spend on it (how long per day) before even thinking about setting up a time frame in which to accomplish this.

As you can see, without knowing a bit more of where you are, it is next to impossible to answer your questions I’d be happy to try to help you through this some if you can share a little more information.

I was checking out TweetGrid.com earlier – seems pretty self explanatory and I think I’ll give that a try.

I hadn’t gotten to the part to figuring out that Chrisanne was both your business partner and wife. How awesome! I’ve often dreamed of my husband and I working on a project online together – maybe some day! Grats to you for making it happen.

The PR Toolkit sounds very interesting! I was looking over this today and is something I’d like to use for myself as well as review for my readers. I love the whole concept.

(Click the graphic below to see what the toolkit we’re talking about.)

The PR Toolkit and the whole concept of UnderstandingMarketing.com fits exactly what I stand for. I love to help the small business owner. Most small business owners need to focus their funds on things that directly effect day to day business.

Unfortunately, the marketing/advertising/public relations budget is all too often the smallest. That’s where people like John, Chrisanne and myself come in. We’re out to help the small business owner focus on the getting their business seen.

Thanks again John for stopping by and I really look forward to Tuesday’s chat as well as hopefully participating in future chats. This all is “my kind of thing”. Thanks for asking me to sit on your panel.

Each week we host a chat on Twitter to share information with any small business and give them an opportunity to ask questions on specific topics. I’m sure this week’s topic will be very popular for many small business owners on Twitter.

Please email me if you have specific questions on affiliate marketing that you’d like addressed during Tuesday’s chat session (jsternal@understandingmarketing.com).

Remember, the #smbiz chat takes place every Tuesday night from 8-9 p.m. EDT. The best way to view and participate is by heading to tweetgrid.com and entering in #smbiz. We welcome and encourage everyone’s participation during the chat. Simply make sure you include “#smbiz” at the end of each tweet so that it shows up in the chat discussion.

Hope to see everyone there!

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