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What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Article Category: Business

Author Name: Dana Ehrlich

Although affiliate marketing is one of the more popular ways on how to earn an income from the internet, so many starting online entrepreneurs are still clueless on how the business works. However, the model is really simple. It's very similar to offline sales wherein you promote other people's products and earn commissions from your efforts. In affiliate marketing however, the promotion and sales are done online. That's the biggest difference. Another difference is that you do not need to keep physical inventory of the products you are promoting. You just do the promotion and the affiliate company will handle the rest, from billing the customer to delivering the product he/she purchased. To help you further understand what affiliate marketing is, below is an overview of the whole thing.

In affiliate marketing, there are two parties involved - you as the affiliate and the affiliate company you signed up with. The setup is simple - you promote the affiliate company's products and you receive affiliate commissions on every successful purchase you refer. Signing up with an affiliate company is usually free. The information that they require from you vary from company to company. In most cases however, your name, address and a payment medium is all that are required from you. Also, some companies don't take in affiliates from certain countries so make sure that you have chances of being accepted in the program before you apply.

Also, in order to fully understand what is affiliate marketing, you should be able to see the distinction between an affiliate marketing company with an affiliate program and a standalone business with an affiliate program. For instance, Amazon and Clickbank are affiliate marketing companies. A small online store selling art supplies with an affiliate program isn't an affiliate company. This is what's great about affiliate marketing. You can sign up with several affiliate companies to maximize the products and services you are promoting. There's absolutely no limit to the number of companies you can sign up with. You can have several sources of income in a given time.

There are several ways on how to promote affiliate products. These include the following:

Build an affiliate store. Popularly referred to as an affiliate site, this store is a website exclusively built to promote affiliate products. It could be an Amazon affiliate store or a Clickbank affiliate store depending on the company you signed up with or the set of products you decided to sell on the store. The secret to success with affiliate stores lies in how effective you are in ranking the site in the search engines. That said, you must be knowledgeable in search engine marketing as this is your only ticket towards top search engine results.

Blogging. You can also start your own affiliate marketing blog and promote your affiliate products in it.

Advertising. You can make use of all sorts of advertising like pay per click advertising and banner advertising.

These are all the answers you need for the question "what is affiliate marketing?". Affiliate marketing is not as complicated as it sounds. If you learn the basics of it, you can pretty much understand every aspect of it.

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