The Power of Affiliate Marketing

If you’ve been around for sometime now on the internet, you would have heard of the term Affiliate or Associate programs. Affiliate programs are programs organized by companies, individuals business owners etc. that allow an individual to earn money known as commissions by just referring people to their website. If they make a purchase, you earn a prearranged percentage of the whole amount of money paid by the client or customer. The beauty of this business is the fact that you do not need so many things like you do in creating your own website and maintaining it. All you need is just an affiliate program directory and the means to market and advertise the products so people can see them and buy.

There are many forms of affiliate marketing and their directories. If you want to look for them yourself, type the keyword “Affiliate marketing programs”, “affiliate programs”, “associate programs”, “referral programs”. Starting with just this list will do for now. On viewing the search page results, you’ll find there are lots of programs like that online. In fact so many they are virtually limitless. This is where your focus now comes into play. What form of market are you interested in? For instance, if you are interested in weight loss, you could type the keywords “weight loss affiliate programs”, “weight loss associate programs” etc.

Fortunately, some directories have already been created to this effect. The following websites are places where you can get lots of affiliate programs. What’s more, it doesn’t cost a dime to join most.

1. http://www.clickbank.com ClickBank
2. http://www.cj.com Commission Junction
3. http://www.shareasale.com Share a Sale.
4. http://www.associateprograms.com. Associate Programs.

These are just a few of the databases you can find containing thousands upon thousands of affiliate programs. There are different types of affiliate programs:

1-tier affiliate program:

In this situation, all you do is earn commissions from just one transaction. So, if the visitor you directed to the website buys as a result of your directing him, you’ll earn from him only once. If he is supposed to be paying a monthly fee, the affiliate marketer will only make money just once after which every other sales made by the individual he referred to the merchant wont earn him any money. Most products currently selling belong to this group and usually sell just once to the consumer.

2-tier Affiliate Program

Unlike the one-tier program where an affiliate earns just one time, you could make your commissions twice usually from someone who signed up to be an affiliate through your recommendations.

Lifetime Affiliate Program

This type of affiliate program is the type that produces what is called residual income. All an affiliate marketer has to do is sign the customer up once, and as long as the customer keeps paying the affiliate gets a cut of the money.

In truth, affiliate marketing is a very easy way of making money. You do not need a website to make any money. All you may need is just a blog which you might decide to leave hosted on the blog service’s host and getting the product in the face of consumers who will be interested in what you are offering them.

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