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Affiliate Marketing

• What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing means  promoting and  advertising merchant's product and services through mutually beneficial partnership with publisher, blogger or marketer or in other words we can say Affiliate Marketer make money by promoting  product or services on their website. It can be great way to add extra income to your blog.

There are so many companies and webmasters which are using Affiliate marketing to promote their online sales and most of them free to join. Affiliate marketing is a best option for work from home.

How to get start?

Choose any product which you like or want to promote or find out which products are most popular, if you are not certain about particular product ask to the merchant for free sample/copy or visit the seller website to check whether their sale letters are enough to generator sale. Probably, choose current trends.

Conversion rate of 5% is good. It means if 100 people visits to your site 5 will place an order.

Remember you don't want to loose your readers they trust you so be careful while promoting any poor quality product. 

Make sure your site is pleasing to eye, relevant and quality content related to product's topic.

Build a targeted traffic to your site, use social networking sites, forums etc to boost your site.

How Affiliate marketing  works?
When you sign up for any affiliate program, an Affiliate link with unique Affiliate id will be assigned to you. 

This Affiliate link is used for marketing the product of your merchant. 

You need to add this link in your blog or website. 

When visitor buys product through your affiliate link, you will get affiliate commission. Affiliate Marketing is great way to earn extra money.

Through the tracking software your affiliate program merchant get all information like sale amount, time, date, IP address of sale.

However Affiliate marketing is not better always. You have to remember, there is an initial investment from your end too.

Like other business you might be wishing to start affiliate marketing, however it needs sufficient time, planning, some money, lots of effort and determination.

some useful tips:

• Get lots and lots of traffic visiting to your websites.
• Associate only with good affiliate marketing programs 
• Choose affiliate programs which pay high commission and that too on time and keep their customers happy by providing actual value.
• Choose product wisely which user really wants to purchase.
• Don't disrupt flow of webpage content with affiliate ads.

Important thing is, it's not a one time or one day work. Need to have more patience.


How much does it pay?

Pay depends on which type of affiliate program you choose. eg. If you choose program - Airline, typically on per ticket sale you can expect 6% to 9%.

Time and schedule?

This work is time consuming but can be done as per convenience.

Companies/ Websites?

--panthera network

--flexoffers.com

--digitalforce.in

--CentrePoint Media

--Escalate Media etc.

There are tons of  such companies. Have a google search with keyword Affiliate Marketing companies.