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UNDERSTANDING AFFILIATE MARKETING FLOW

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UNDERSTANDING AFFILIATE MARKETING

My explanations will be mainly for the newer affiliate marketer and will focus on some promotional techniques, free and otherwise, to sell affiliate products. For you guys who already know about affiliate marketing, bare with me. In case you're completely new to this, affiliate marketing is selling someone else's products for which you get a commission on every sale you make. This is one of the easies way to start a business online. It is most often done in percentages of the sale amount which can vary all the way up to 90% per sale.

The techniques to sell in affiliate marketing are very similar to running your business as a whole, with some noteworthy differences that you should know. The first major difference is the price difference of starting up business compared to running a website yourself. It helps to have your own website to promote multiple products at once, but that can be even side stepped. An affiliate marketer has no inventory at all, no taking order, no shipping and etc. You just promote and sell for other people.

The business you're selling for has to handle all the other process such as taking order, shipping, payment and etc. You just promote and sell the product without worry of taking any orders. Overall, it's much cheaper and the headaches are less when you're job just generating the lead for the sale and not dealing with all the paperwork and cost of running the entire operation. If you get good enough and it's entirely possible to do it full time plus you could venture into many other possibilities over internet.

Note: Some examples of companies that offer affiliate programs are Clickbank, Commission Junction, and Amazon. You can sign up to be an affiliate at any one of those sites to get started. Clickbank, Commission Junction, Amazon and etc. are companies that have lots of variety of products that you could choose and promote from different individual or companies. But you could also be affiliate for companies that only sell their own particular product such as DELL, SONY, DISCOVERY CARD and etc.

 

AM I SUITABLE TO BE AN AFFILIATE MARKETER ? - before you jump and start to be an affiliate marketer, you need to know if you have the requirements to be an affiliate marketer. I have listed some requirements for a person who thinks he/she wants to be an affiliate marketer.  The list is not the total requirements, but just a guide.

 

If you don't have:

• Own Product Or Any Services To Offer

• Do Not Want To Maintain Website Heavily Or Don't Want To Have Website

• Money/Time To Be Invest Developing Your Product Or Services

If you want:

• Leverage On Other People Product

• Less Maintenance On Your Website Or No Website, BUT WILLING TO DO MORE ADVERTISEMENT

• High Potential Income

• Able To Switch Fast And Selling From One Best Selling Product To Another

• Able To Get Overriding Commission From Recruiting Other Affiliate Under You

Then, affiliate marketing could be your business model. Affiliate is one of the business model that you could do even without a website. But I would highly recommend you to own a website since with website of your own, you could promote many products at once. Plus, there are other potential income such as from Google Adsense, renting advertisement space and etc. Remember that even thought becoming an affiliate marketer may not require you to have a website or maintain a website heavily, you need to promote the affiliate links extensively.

See also what are the questions to ask a affiliate program before you join one. Here are the questions!

See also how you could protect your affiliate link from link hijackers. Affiliate Link Cloaking Methods

 

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