Make Money Online using Affiliate Marketing

Oct 1
07:10

2010

Youssef Edward

Youssef Edward

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Affiliate marketing is the process of promoting products of other companies. Whether you are at home or in other place, you can use your affiliate marketing strategies to make money online.

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To begin making money with affiliate marketing,Make Money Online using Affiliate Marketing Articles you have to understand first the concepts and how it work. The concept of affiliate marketing has been arisen be Amazon in 1996 as a way to increase the sales of their products. The main idea of affiliate marketing is that the producer company that owns their products to attract as much people as possible and use them to promote or advertise their products.

Getting more people to promote the company products will lead to increasing sales for that company. If you think that the company will market its products alone across the internet, it may not achieve its desired level of sales but when the company seeks for more people to promote its products, it will of course increase its sales. The company will pay in return a commission to the people that promote the product.

Those people that register with the company are called affiliates because they work for the benefit of the company. The more affiliates that the company have, the better for the company provided they well market their products. Suppose that each affiliate generate sales for the company with 100 sales per year. If the company has 10 affiliates only, the sales will be 1000 sale per year. The sale here means a product purchase from the company.

The above example demonstrates the power of affiliate marketing and how it can increase the income but the declaration is done from the point of view the company income. But what about the affiliate income and how much money he can make. If we assume that each product he sales makes 100 dollars for the company and he will earn 10 dollars for each products he refers others to buy. If the sales per month made by the affiliate reached 100 units, the earning will be 1000 dollars which is a big income today.
Achieving a good level of income requires more work to be dome by the affiliate to make money.  The job must start by building a good web site that has information related to the company or the products he will promote. If you have not enough techniqual knowledge to build web site, you can search for web building service from a good company or use free web building tools. Many web hosting companies offers site builder software that enables people to build their site. As an alternative, the affiliate can use blog to promote his products and put the affiliate links. Blogger and wordpress provides the blogging service for free. This service usse simple graphical user interfaces that anyone can use.

Once the site is built, the affiliate must promote his site by building links to the site on other web sites. He can simply write articles and putting the links inside the articles to link back to the site containing the products to be promoted. Search engines are also an excellent way to drive free traffic.