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Affiliate marketing involves you getting paid for selling other people’s products which you don't own and yet make a profit from. Someone else does all the hard work to develop various software programs, service, or digital content products for instance e-books and you get to reap the rewards by earning a commission for selling those products. They'll do all the work then you collect the money!

Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing arrangement between the product developer, known as the affiliate merchant, and the affiliate marketer who is anyone that's willing to promote the sale of product. You can use any legal means to endorse and sell which ever affiliate products you decide to work with, you make a sale and then you collect a commission.

The relationship will allow the affiliate merchant to grow their revenue by paying only for the advertising that results in a sale. The affiliate marketer will profit by making a percentage on a sale that he does not have to manage after the sale. It’s a win-win situation for both the affiliate merchant and you.


Collecting Your Cash!

Getting paid all depends upon how the affiliate program is set up. Some merchants will run their own affiliate program while other might use a service such as Clickbank. The ones running their own program will have special types of software that assigns each affiliate marketer a special link that's used in promoting the product. The software will track sales of every marketer and the merchant will pay the commission on a periodic basis using either PayPal or another method of payment. The same is true for affiliate programs such as Clickbank or Commission Junction.

Choosing the Right Products or Services!

Your income is directly related to how well the product or service that you have selected end up selling and the size of the commission you earn from each sale. This makes it extremely important for you to choose carefully when it comes to deciding on the different affiliate merchants you'll be partnering with.

Choose programs that you aren't embarrassed to promote and programs that you'll feel comfortable recommending to your family and friends if they were to ask you about it. You'll do much better if you promote products that you fully understand and are already familiar with and that you feel is a good value for your customers. This way, you'll be able to write better ads without having any trouble coming up with the right way to explain the product or service that you are promoting. You should only promote products and services for companies who have gone through the trouble to provide you with training programs and sales aids such as banners and other marketing materials that you can either use directly or model the one you own after. This is a sign that the affiliate you are working with is credible.

Be on the lookout for programs with commission rates no less than 50%. You should give preference to programs that pay commission on multiple levels, which means you'll also have to earn commissions on sales made by people who buy the products through your link then go on and become affiliates themselves later on. This is a fantastic way to increase your income while doing absolutely nothing.