In this article I am going to explain to you what an affiliate marketer
is and how an affiliate marketer earns money. I am also going to share with you
a few affiliate programs, which are both popular and reputable, for you to
consider joining.
An affiliate marketer basically promotes a company's products or
services for them and if they make a sale they will receive a commission which
is an agreed percentage of the sale price.
An affiliate marketer is a sales person working on a commission. It is
not a job and you don't sign any contracts with the company, you can decide
when you want to stop promoting the products at any time without giving any
notice.
The affiliate marketer does not hold any stock of the product, they get
what is called an affiliate link, which is a unique tracking ID associated only
with that affiliate marketer. How this works is that the affiliate marketer
promotes a product and has their tracking ID, affiliate link, somewhere within
the promotion for a person to click on and go to a sales page. If they decide
to make a purchase this tracking ID traces the sale back to the person who
promoted the product, they will then receive a commission.
Programs like Amazon Associates let you promote lots of their products
and you can swap and change those products any time that you wish. The
advantage of having the freedom to do this is that if you find that a certain
product is not selling then you can decide to stop promoting that product
without giving any notice to Amazon.
A number of company's use affiliate's to promote their products and one
that most people will have heard of is Amazon, a huge website with perhaps tens
of thousands of products. The advantage of using Amazon is because of their
reputation, a huge online retailer with an incredible reputation for great
customer service.
Other programs like ClickBank.com and JVZoo.com are a little less known
by the public, but offer a much higher commission rate than the larger retailer
Amazon. They do not have the same kind of reputation like Amazon but offer a
huge amount of online digital products which can be downloaded directly onto
the buyers computer. These digital products vary widely from an eBook to
purchasing a monthly subscription with a digital service.
A great opportunity exists for the affiliate marketer who can
successfully promote products, there are an endless number of products to
choose from under an endless number of topics. The key is to know who to market
those products to and how to market them successfully.
Darren Breeze is an independent marketing strategist and the author of
How To Write A Great Product Review.
Article Source: Ezine
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