subject: What's Affiliate Marketing? [print this page] If you're new in affiliate marketing and products promoting techniques, this tutorial is what you're looking for.
First of all the basic idea about affiliate marketing is that you promote a product of such company to surfers visitors that could be interested by such product, and then you get paid by the program or by the company when the visitor take an action and that what we call PPA Pay-Per-Action,
Every time visitor performs an action by visiting the company's product basket and do an action (buy).
Another type (well known one) of affiliate marketing program is PPC Pay-Per-Click as an example the famous Google AdWords. You get paid every time visitors to your website or blog click on those ads. But generally this system gives you a small amount of money, so you should have thousands of clicks over that ads to get enough dollars.
There's two kind of affiliate program one is network program, another is private affiliate program, and each one have its advantages. It's easy for beginners to find customized and prepared programs in such Affiliate network like:
Clickbank.com
shareasale.com
linkshare.com
commissionjunction.com
paydotcom.com
So consider that some particular merchant programs prefer to check manually your website or blog so they make sure it reveals and covers the same topics as their products.
Others want you to just drive them traffic and actions over their products with your id mentioned in coming URL, so here email marketing can exploited, to promote. Email marketing is easier than to setup whole website with rich content and multiple topics, but have some difficulties or keys when solved Yoopi! you get the job in :
* First: email marketing software or solution to send bulk emails, (you need massive receivers that open and check your email)
* Second: you need a huge valid email database, (another thing whish limits your opportunity here is how much is possible your target will open this email and perform a purchase!!!)
Another solution is making one page website using free blogging solutions like blogger.com, and promotes your chosen product.
Affiliate marketing is actually widely offered in internet and quite simple. You don't really need to build up big website, you have just to make people to click on your links and drive as much as you can traffic to your merchant website, using any technique that suits your resources.
