What is affiliate marketing?
Basically it is where someone is promoting another companies products or services. Then the ‘affiliate’ gets a nice little commission out of his/hers efforts of marketing. Everyone is happy!
Affiliate marketing is a good way to get other people to sell products for you, if you are willing to give them a certain percentage of the sale. It is a great way to get other people to do the leg work for you. So instead of the customer purchasing the product from the merchant or retailer, they are purchasing through an affiliate.
Check out these two amazing sites for all of you keen Affiliate Marketers! 
Click here for information on Affiliate with ClickBank
Click here for information on Affiliate with Commission Junction [CJ.com]
The marketer/affiliate gets paid a commission on referrals or sales from the promoted company. It can be in any subject from renewable energy to lottery, from eBooks to forex trading. The retailer offers help to its marketers by either offering banners to put on their website, suggested sales letters or the marketer even gets their own replicated website to attract prospects. But it is up to the affiliate marketer to work hard for their commissions, which is easy when you know how to market products online.
As an affiliate marketer, this is a great way to produce ‘multiple streams of income’ in many niche markets.
Here are my favourite affiliate programs at the moment;
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Anyone can do it!
But…. is that good or bad?
Anyone can do it! What qualifies marketers to become an affiliate? A large amount of companies who offer an opportunity for affiliate marketing, do so without the affiliate purchasing the product that they are promoting. Which is great for the merchant company but not so good for the customer or affiliates reputation.
I only say this out of experience.
I purchased an eBook on the internet which turned out to be (to put it politely) not very good.
My advice to you?
Affiliate marketing is good. I earn nice little commissions on some of the products that I promote. But I only promote them because I have purchased them, I use them and I recommend them. If you are purchasing a product by a replicated site then please do your research on the person promoting this product. Ask for testimonials or photos. Find out if this person has an interest in the product that is being sold, or are they just trying to sell whatever they can get a commission from.
If the customer, affiliate and merchant are happy then everyone is happy!
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