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Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

Affiliate Marketing is the easiest way for you to start your online business. There are lots of good affiliate marketing opportunities out there and you just have to learn its principles.

I put together this tutorial and I hope you find it useful. So, let's start from the beginning:

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing can be define as when you promote a merchant's product.

You become it's Affiliate, by increasing the volume of traffic, sales or other action online or offline.

How does Affiliate Marketing work?

You are assigned an unique ID by the merchant as soon as you sign up to promote a product.

Your assigned ID is embedded in an specific URL which you will advertise.

When people visit your URL and take action, the merchant will recognize your ID and credit you for the lead.

Merchants use this ID to track all its affiliates payments.

The Perfect Method

Affiliate Marketing has many advantages to be considered the Perfect Method:

No need to have an inventory;

No need to order products;

No dealing with s&h issues;

There are several free and paid ways to advertise; and

You have options on how to get paid.

How to Get Paid

As an Affiliate Marketer, you can get paid primarily in three ways, depending on the merchant and the product you are promoting

Pay Per Click

You get paid based on how many clicks you generate in your link.

This is perfect for a landing page or websites that generate a lot of traffic.

You only get paid a few cents per click.

The most common PPC affiliate program known is Google Ad Sense.

Pay Per Action

You will receive a flat fee when you generate a qualifying action.

Actions can be:

I.Filling out an email address

II.Filling out a zip code

III.Filling out an entire form with a few fields

IV.Any other action specified by the merchant

Pay Per Sale

You may get either a percentage of or a flat fee payment for each sale you generate.

You will know about your commission up front, before you sign-up to be an affiliate.

$$ Commissions $$

Most merchants put a threshold and will pay you once you get to that amount.

The most common threshold is $100, but it can vary depending on the merchant.

You get paid in each pay period after you hit your threshold.

Affiliate Marketing is a great start to generate an income online. You don't have to worry about maintaining a inventory, no worries about ordering products or dealing with shipping or returns and you get paid a commission every time someone clicks, buys or take action on your unique link (URL plus ID) that the merchant creates for you. Your job is to generate traffic to increase the merchant's revenue.

One of the most known site to search for offers in various niches is Clickbank. The commissions paid varies and it's in average, 50 to 70%.

After years working as an affiliate marketer myself, researching offers, I found this affiliate program that pays 100% commissions. So there are legitimate offers out there. You just need to do your research and stay away from scams.

Good Luck and Take Care!
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