So what is Affiliate marketing?
Of course I'm getting ahead of myself here, and the people just starting out getting to know affiliate marketing are in danger of suffering from information overload. So i better drop back and start from scratch, After all we must learn to walk before we can run.
The basics of affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is to put it one way, a business, YOUR business, which you can work on whenever you want. Weather its quitting your job and going for broke, or simply just taking it as more of a hobby. A way to earn a little extra pocket money for yourself if you will.
An affiliate marketer makes money by:
(a) Getting people to visit a certain site
(b) That person then buying or subscribing to that particular sites product/offer.
An affiliate does this by using different methods, such as, building a blog, writing articles, joining forums, just to name a few. Some also use what are called black hat methods, which are so called as they are mostly deemed wrong and frowned upon by many.
The ways in which affiliates are using sale methods are changing always, so it would be impossible to fit them in one article, but the gist of it is:
(1) You first join an affiliate site, such as Clickbank.
(2) Pick a product you would like to promote.
(3) Do whatever you can to sell people that product.
(4) Earn a percentage (usually 50% or higher) for every customer you send their way.
So now you know how affiliate marketers make money on the Internet. But what you need to know if you want to join them is HOW they go about making the sales so easily? (to be continued)
I'll be following up to this post, with the answer to that question, and making a series of post regarding the best ways to make money by affiliate marketing over the coming week(s). So keep checking back for part 2 and upwards or visit the site by Clicking Here!.
If tho you feel you can not wait or need to start making right away, I would recommend buying one of the following guides.
Blogging to the bank
The rich jerk .
Confessions of a Lazy super Affiliate.
The three guides above are all reasonably priced (compared with some), and by following the methods described in them you should be making money on the Internet within a day.
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- EVILON2LEGS EVILON2LEGS Mar 30, 2008 @ 8:42 am
- hey andy, it would take a full lens on itself to name all the products i promote, lol, i guess the key is to not stop at one but do as many as you can.
good luck andy
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- andybrad83 andybrad83 Mar 29, 2008 @ 7:33 am
- i've been making money as an affiliate for almost a year now. which products do you promote?







