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Affiliate Marketing is a wonderful and most popular way to make
money online today. Simply bring your online visitors to the
products or services they need and you earn your commission. Yet
the best, the start up cost can be ZERO!
Affiliate program (also known as reseller, associate, referral or
partnership program) is a revenue-sharing system whereby you, the
affiliate, receive payment from the owner (merchant) of a product
or service that you promote on their behalf. This is a great way
to generate income if you don't have a product of your own to
promote.
There are various types of affiliate programs. The most simple one
involves you, the affiliate, placing a banner ad or text link at
your site which is linked to the site of the product or service
you are promoting. This link is coded with your unique affiliate
ID so that the site visitor is recorded at the target site as
having originated from your site, thereby allowing you to be
credited with the sale. Payment is generally a fixed percentage of
the sale price or "pay per click", where an affiliate is paid a
certain amount for every time a site visitor clicks on the link at
the affiliate's site, whether or not a sale is made.
There are thousands of individual affiliate programs offered on
the Internet, many are being through third party affiliate
networks such as ClickBank, Commission Junction, ShareASale etc.
These companies connect a large number of merchants together via
their own network, enable you to access them all at one location
with a single registration. This gives you two major advantages:
save your time, and receive your commission as one convenient lump
sum.
Below are links to some of the best affiliate networks you can sign up for
free and start promoting your favorite affiliate products:
ClickBank.com - Internet largest digital marketplace, where
thousands of the web's most popular digital products are sold
every day. Setup is free, fast and you'll have instant access to
over 10,000 products with commissions as high as 75%. Incorporated
with fast, accurate tracking system and dependable payment
services.
Commission Junction - A global leader in the online advertising
channels of affiliate marketing and managed search. Commission
Junction affiliate programs offer pay-for-performance online
advertising and Internet marketing solutions. You will get
valuable resources you need to develop your performance-based
offers, generate more leads, and increase your online revenue.
LinkShare.com
- One of the largest and most trusted affiliate networks that
offer tons of affiliate programs that you can join, including many
big name, big brand companies. Their statistical interface is
simple to use and offers many advanced features to view in-depth
information about your leads and sales. Payments have always been
on time and prompt.
Shareasale.com - An
affiliate network of over 2,000 merchants, each has a different
type of product that they are selling - and each is ready to give
you a commission on that sale if you refer a customer. You decide
how to promote your chosen merchant - using your web traffic,
email newsletters and other tools that you have. Real-time stats
are available to check the commissions you earn.
If you are serious about making money with affiliate marketing, we
highly recommend Rosalind Gardner's
Super Affiliate Handbook.
This book teaches you exactly how affiliate marketing works. It is
a small investment for the amount of great information you will
receive in order to succeed your affiliate marketing campaign! |
