Affiliate Marketing ? a Simplified Step by Step Guide for Newbies

Understanding Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a process where you promote a third party’s product or service, and when a sale is made due to your efforts, you will be rewarded with a predetermined percentage of commission. Affiliate marketer only does promotions for the product and do not get involve in any other process of the sales. The owner of the product needs to arrange the process relating to the sale such as accepting payments, delivery, refunds and etc.

Type Of Affiliate Programs

There are many types of affiliate marketing which an online marketer could choose to promote. Some of the programs available are percentage from a sale program, pay per lead program, recurring income program, residual income program and ad revenue program. Any one of these programs or combination of them could be used to develop an affiliate marketing business.

Single Tier Or Multi Tier Affiliate Programs

Single tier affiliate program pays only for sales made by the individual marketer. On multi tier affiliate program, an affiliate marketer could make a cut out of any other affiliate marketers who was recruited by him or her.

Affiliate Marketing With Or Without Website

An affiliate marketer could decide to perform affiliate marketing business with or without a website. This is dependent on the ability of the marketer to manage a website or not.

Traffic Development

Once you have decided to start affiliate marketing either with a website or not, the main task will be to generate traffic to the affiliate links. The more targeted traffic being directed towards the affiliate link’s landing page, the higher the chances for a sale. Prior to direct the visitors to the affiliate link’s landing page, it is good to presell the visitors with relevant information concerning the product being promoted. This will further increase the chances of making a sale.