subject: What Is Most Shocking About Affiliate Marketing? [print this page] Affiliate program offers a commission to resellers in return for referring customers to the merchant website, they are usually paid for customer who actually made a purchase and if that is all you need to do, why not get started right away. Most people think it is a kind of bogus arrangement.
That's not the case; most big corporations are all involved in affiliate marketing heavily to sell products and drive their brand. Having a lot of people selling products at the same time will definitely create a critical mass for the company that will increase their profitability. Take some time to Google eBay or Amazon affiliate program and you will get the story.
Another shocking revelation is that to get started on this journey, will cost you nothing but your time which everybody has in abundance. At the initial start, a website may not be necessary but you can simply sign up on ezinearticles.com, hubpages.com, twitter etc for free. The first two are article websites to publish contents and the last are social media property for networking.
The next big question will be, how does all of this fits together? Due to the fact we want to take the assumption that we have a zero spend budget to get into affiliate marketing, which is the reason we want to adopt article writing as our optimal entry mode to get started. You are going to first of all research a niche, find a product that solves people's need. Then write an article about how you think it can be resolved.
Search engines like Google,recognise the sites that I already mentioned that you will be placing your articles on as authority sites, so you are going to leverage them to get ranking and possibly a lot of traffic to your article post which has an affiliate link to the sales page of the product that you are selling. Hope it make sense and simple enough to achieve.
Obviously, there is no limit to the number of website that you can join and submit your articles to increase your exposure thereby generate more traffic, as traffic they say is equals to sales.
As part of the research process, for starters clickbank.com marketplace, will be the most ideal place to look for the kind of products that meets a need and solves problems. But the most important niches that you can look at exploring are health, relationship and money. They all have sub-niches that you can research and begin to write articles on, why promoting the affiliate products.
