Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is a type of marketing where affiliates advertise to drive traffic to advertiser’s websites for sales. In return the affiliate receives a commission every time a sale is made through the advertiser. In internet marketing a lot of businesses and people are using this strategy to market and advertise their business. Affiliates place the ads on their website from the advertiser or merchant. This is a low cost business for the affiliate and easy way to market and advertise for the advertiser. 

Most home based business owners become affiliate marketers because it’s a great way to earn extra money. Most of the time there is no investment required to do affiliate marketing so It becomes a low cost business to have. Everything is solely done by the merchant. No inventory or products to manage which is a great advantage in affiliate marketing. When your website has a high page ranking, that will increase your sales and clicks on the ads on your page. This in return will get you higher and more commissions. This amazing concept is similar to a funded proposal in which the ads from the advertiser can be products that can help other marketers or even customers become potential leads for your primary business. This stream of income can be the funds used to build your primary business with no money ever coming out of your pocket. Sounds good to me! A successful affiliate marketer has the potential to earn unlimited income.

With affiliate marketing your business is not just in your city or state but can be an international business. Your affiliate business can become a global market if you’re driving traffic to your website from all over the world. You begin to create business partners from everywhere which still can be potential leads for your primary business. With an affiliate business you gain potential customers from all over the world and this business is available 24 hours a day! That means you can be earning money while you are sleeping! 

There are normally two types of affiliate marketing programs, PPC (Pay Per Click) and PPP (Pay Per Performance). With ppc  marketing each time a merchants add is clicked on your page and referred to their website you get paid, regardless if they purchase the advertisers product or not. With ppc you can earn so much per click, sometimes as low as $.05 per click. Now when you’re able to drive high numbers of traffic which will generate lots of clicks, this could generate a lot of income. PPP however works a little differently. With this type of marketing you’re only paid when a merchant makes a sale or a customer signs up for whatever the merchant is offering. Knowing the different types of affiliate programs is your foundation on starting your own online business. Please remember that it does take work to generate money online, but with these basics you are on your way to online marketing success.