Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What Is Affiliate Marketing?


What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is basically in short, selling others' products as an affiliate. An
affiliate  is  like  an  independent  salesperson  that  gets  a  commission  on  each
completed sale. You can be an affiliate of many affiliate programs or just one. It's
your choice. And you can sell anything online from physical products like DVDs,
vitamin supplements to digital products like ebooks and music MP3 files.

Becoming  an  affiliate  is  not  a  difficult  task  on  the  internet.  There  are  dozens  of
affiliate  programs  online  that  accepts  almost  everyone  into  their  program.  And
registration is in most cases, free.

The  job  of  the  affiliate  is  to  expose  the  product  to  potential  buyers.  Making  the
sales  however  does  require  some  work  on  your  part  as  an  affiliate.  The  whole
marketing process can be an interesting one albeit challenging for some. When I
first started on affiliate marketing, I too faced some difficulties in getting it right.
But I soon learnt through ebooks, forums and from people who made it good.

Affiliate marketing is one of the greatest opportunity and indeed easiest ways for
anyone to make a fortune online. The Dot Com boom and increasing interest and
usage  of  the  internet  as  the  main  source  for  information  has  created  many
opportunities for products to be sold online.

Anyone can get started and do it full time or part time. It does not matter what
you are doing offline for a living. You can be a teacher, an engineer, a banker, a
doctor  (yes,  there  are  doctors  who  switched  to  affiliate  marketing  as  their  new
career),  a  retail  sales  assistant,  a  crane  operator,  a  full-time  mother  or  even  a
teen.    Yes,  there  are  some  celebrity  affiliate  marketers  who  dropped  out  from
college to pursue affiliate marketing. Surely, there must be something alluring?

Ok, by now, your appetite must be whetted. The reason why I wrote this book is
to  show  you  the  killer  secrets  of  affiliate  marketing  for  you  to  succeed  and  not
struggle as an affiliate and hopefully become the next internet marketing guru!

It  is not what  you  know but applying  what  you  learnt that makes you
successful!

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