Paradise Development: The Coolest Affiliate Program Ever

In 1955, Ray Kroc bought a McDonalds and started growing his McD's empire. But being one smart burger, he didn't try to do it single-handedly. He did three things to leverage time;
1. Sold other McD's to people as a Franchise.
2. Opened Hamburger University to train and support his new business partners.
3. Set up Golden State Foods (g.s.f.) to supply all his business partners everything they would need to run their little fast food restaurant.
Ray took Franchises to another level!

In 1994, cdnow.com started partnering with other websites online. Cdnow.com would allow other sites to post a cdnow.com link on their sites, and pay the site owner commissions based on amount of revenues brought in from their "affiliates". Two years later, Amazon.com adopted that partnering program, and the rest, as they say, is history!

Today, nearly all the retailers online have some form of partnering program. Why not, it's the easiest, cheapest way to increase web presence. And more importantly, it taps into the most powerful form of advertising; word of mouth - or word of mouse.

Today, using a unique affiliate program, major companies are partnering with private business owners on line. This partnership allows the small business owner to do what McD's and Amazon.com did, without spending the amount of money of traditional, conventional businesses.

If you're looking for a way to grow a business empire, the net is the place to do it, and affiliate programs is the simplest way to franchise yourself the way McD's did.