Affiliate Marketing Basics

What is affiliate marketing?


Mostly known for when a business or company allows a person a chance to market, sell, or promote their online product for a percentage of the sale price. The reasoning behind affiliate marketing allows an online business to create an immediate sales force online to promote their products or services fast. This allows their product to be seen by millions more just for allowing others to promote their product or services for a fraction of the cost of it. Some commissions can be as high as 75% of the final sale price. For example, if you were to promote a product or service that cost $100.00 and made a sale, you would already make $75.00 in commissions. Imagine if you could do that 5 times a day everyday.... That could turn into $375.00 a day or even $2,625.00 a month, just for promoting a single product and making at least five sales per day.


I know what alot of you are saying:
I already know this.
I hear this over and over.
Well, if you already do know all of this, then why are'nt you making this kind of money?
If you know all this and are not making money from it, you are doing something wrong....
Which in turn is why I have created this blog, to show beginners like yourself the fundamentals behind making money through affiliate marketing.


Two Major Points To Remember:

1. Keep it simple-don't over complicate things. Do not make things harder to understand then they really are. You are trying to get potential customers to buy from the companies business through your service. You are not trying to sell the product yourself, what you are really trying to do is get the customers to your affiliate links and let there websites do the talking, which is where so many affiliate marketers tend to fail at. They just try to sell to hard trying to promote it that the customers really have no need to go to the link and actually see the products sales page itself. This in turn will lead to very few or even no sales at all.
2. In order to really start making money through affiliate marketing, you will need to do work. There is no system that will make you a multimillionaire in a day or even a week. But to be honest there are systems outh there that will help you get to where you want to be, but as stated earlier, expect to do some work to make it fit your expectations. Trust me, there will be alot of trial and error, but once you find your secret, you will be amazed how easy it really is.

Affiliate Marketing In A Nutshell

Well, to start, you will need to find an area where you will be able to start promoting others products or services. There are many out there and all do the same. My top two are clickbank and paydotcom. Either of these services are free to join as an affiliate and contains millions of different types of products and services that you will be able to sell and promote for money. You also have a choice in which you can promote or sell your own type of product or service. This in turn can be a great service for you to get you own content out to the world by just paying commissions to other affiliates.

Keep in mind there are many other programs that offer the same types of services and products. These are the two that I use and found very lucrative in my ventures. You can market as many different types of products from as many different types of affiliate sites, the you must remeber to keep it simple enough that you will be able to track and determine what is selling and why it is. This is why I mainly stick to these two. Be aware that some of the other affiliate sites, you will have to pay a membership fee. Which is another reason I like these two. After all you are trying to make money online, right?