Affiliate Marketing - Where The Money Is At

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to make money online. Countless amounts of people make 7 figure incomes, and even more; and they only work 6 hours a week! Their sites are on 'autopilot' so they nearly make money by themselves.

Sounds great doesn't it?

Sure it does, but it isn't as easy as nearly all of the affiliate marketing ebooks make it out to be. Being a successful affiliate marketer takes a lot of learning and work to get into the successful group of marketers, but it is well worth it once you get there. It's like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Those who believe in themselves will get that pot of gold, and the rest will fail.

But woah, back up! What is affiliate marketing anyways?

Affiliate marketing is the online promotion of sales to the general population who searches the internet everyday. If I am an affiliate for a fictional "Product X", then I will receive a commission if I manage to make a sale for that product. It's like being a car salesman, except it's online and for MUCH smaller prices (Anywhere from $10 to $150 products in most cases). The commission is usually around 50-75% of the retail price if it is a product promoted on Clickbank.

What is Clickbank, you ask?

Clickbank is simply a middle man for the people who make products and the people who want to promote the products as affiliates. In simpler terms, Clickbank connects the VENDORS to the AFFILIATES. When a sale is made, both parties get a cut, depending on the commission amount that I mentioned previously.

So, you could go to Clickbank right now, search their 'marketplace' of products, find a product you want to promote, and start promoting it. If you make a sale by referring someone to the product, you make the commission.

So how do YOU, yourself, refer a potential customer? Simple, they click on a link that has your info on it, and that lets Clickbank know who referred the customer.

Catching on? Good!

So that is the general idea of what is happening in Affiliate Marketing. The next post will talk about how affiliates go about promoting the products themselves.