subject: Learn Affiliate Marketing For Extra Income [print this page] The good news is that it actually isn't difficult to learn affiliate marketing, in fact the opposite is true it is actually very easy to learn affiliate marketing and once you have learned how to use your new skill to your advantage you can start raking in the money.
So what do you need to learn affiliate marketing? Well a computer and a good connection to the internet obviously and a good teacher. There is an awful lot of nonsense talked about this kind of online business and that is mainly because the people making the money from it want to keep the secret of how they do it so that they can charge you to discover the simple steps you need to make a small fortune.
Sadly like double glazing, cavity wall insulation and other "bubble" ways to make money that were popular a few years ago, affiliate marketing is a weighed down with thousands of website offering you this and that and expecting you to pay good money for something that is pretty useless.
So with that said the first thing to discover is what exactly is affiliate marketing? It is a business based on the internet and concept of promoting other web sites and web businesses using your web presence. With both the entities sharing any revenue generated by advertising.
The affiliate marketer's website - in this case your website - may for instance carry a banner or advert on it and in return will get a payment for any sales made using that advert when a visitor buys a product or services from the company who's advert the affiliate it showing.
A great example of this is one of the dozens of book review sites or blogs that have a link to Amazon's bookstore. If a visitor clicks on the Amazon ad on the affiliates website and then goes to the Amazon book store and purchases a book a very small percentage of the value of the book will be paid to the website who directed that customer to Amazon website.
This type of business is not rocket science, it is not difficult and it definitely is rewarding, but if you are considering using affiliate marketing as a source of income don't believe the "I made $7000 in the first week and now make a cool $700 a day by using this technique", it can be done but you need a site that has a significant amount of traffic and some excellent affiliate websites for your vast number of visitors to buy things from.
So by all means give affiliate marketing a try you might make some money but don't give up your day job just yet. You will need to do your homework and find what works for you and that is of course after you have created a website if you don't have one.
The best thing to do for someone who wants to learn this business is to join an existing program, there are ones that are free to join and ones that cost considerable amounts of money, you have to decide which you want, but first do a lot of research and get reviews of the affiliate programs by search on Google. And remember if it sounds too good to be true - then, yes you guessed it; it is too good to be true.
