A shift is happening. Over the years there have been many very successful Online Affiliate Marketers who have built large markets with their information products, services and systems. Web 2.0 makes it possible for Affiliate Marketers to interact with their niche markets in a fashion that develops relationships, trust and eventually personal dialogue. The marketer who is responsible and responsive to their leads lists has the opportunity to build a successful business.

In Affiliate Marketing, monetization is cashflow in return for value offered. The value products may be an ebook, information products for training, personal coaching, marketing systems for specific markets. The customer pays for a purchase, usually on a one time basis.

Social media enlarges the capacity of the affiliate marketer to build their relationship circle. Once again, a businessman or woman who engages in social exchanges in a sincere, consistent manner can develop a larger market. I'm not talking about blatantly exploiting social media for this purpose. I am suggesting that in this country of free enterprise,an marketer who gives value, service and honest relationship will discover people who want to do business with them.

The benefit of online affiliate marketing is a large circle of relationships with customers to whom you service with a product or service. This creates a direct cashflow for the marketer.

The downside of online affiliate marketing is that it is necessary to continually create new exposure for your products for new sales. Affiliate Marketing does not provide residual income.

That is where considering merging the strengths of the two marketing models is creating a shift in internet and network marketing.

Let's look at the other side of the picture.

Network marketing is business model that has an equal playing field for anyone who wants to get started. It does not matter what your circumstances are, gender, income, everyone can start a network marketing business. The success factor is the diligence, consistency of the new marketer to access MLM training and apply it.

A pattern that does emerge for network marketers is the early lack of residual income when they are growing their organization. The statistics show that many give up on their dream because of the need for early cashflow to finance the cost of running their young business. The network marketer would benefit from attraction internet marketing. There is internet network marketing trainingthat incorporates the best of both business models.

Attraction internet marketingteaches the new network marketer what it means to build their own leads generation lists with value internet content. In the process they are offering product with affiliate income. This is not a free lunch. There is a commitment to a learning curve, consistent application of new skills. This is responsible marketing, relationship building that results in monetizing while growing a marketing list.

The result for the marketers begins to highlight the benefits of merging online affiliate marketing with network marketing such as:

1.The new network marketer learns a posture of leadership with newly acquired skills and responsibilities in the process of becoming a professional attraction internet marketer,

2. Direct cashflow income continues with attraction internet marketing. Cashflow from affiliate marketing that, at the least covers, operational costs of your home-based business. This allow the new home based business owner to be consistent in their daily actions in their primary business.

3. As relationships through internet marketing are built, nurtured and matured, sponsorship into the network marketers' primary business is a natural end result.

4. The network marketer's primary business gains momentum creating residual income.

5. New members of the primary business turn to the attraction internet marketing model that brought them initially into the business and the cycle continues.

Network marketers are looking to the internet to widen their marketing strategy. Affiliate marketers are incorporating a network marketing model in their business strategy to begin to create a financial asset that results in residual income.