Affiliate Marketing is best described as being the middle-man for a product or company. Basically, an online company or product owner will give you your own unique URL (web address) to their product site at no cost to you. You will be credited a percentage for any sale, subscriber, or lead that you generate for the company through your link. This is a great alternative for beginners who want to make money online as you don't have to have your own product or website. How much money you can make is limitless, and dependant upon different factors such as:
- doing necessary research to find out the marketability of a product
- how many different products/companies you promote
- utilizing all the different means of online advertising
.....and so much more!!
The best part is that almost all online products nowadays have an affiliate program which means that you can choose from thousands of products covering almost every possible niche . Even well known companies such as Home Depot, E-Bay, Amazon, Petco, plus so many more have their own affiliate programs.
Affiliate Networks sites are basically directories of affiliate programs catologued into different groups (niches) such as: health, pets, marketing, etc.
Here are some of the more popular affiliate networks to start with although there are so many others out there.
- www.clickbank.com
- www.commissionjunction.com
- www.paydotcom.com
- www.linkshare.com
- www.amazon.com (US)
- www.amazon.ca (Canada)
- www.amazon.co.uk (UK)
They are all FREE to join, although Clickbank is by far the easiest to use for beginners as it does not require you to have your own website when registering plus it is the most simple to navigate through.
Good Luck!
