What is affiliate marketing?

PH.2015-09-03.MO.0.1.45acd88cfafec95d03afc1986b899db0By: Eva Hermogino

Hello guys! How are you? I hope you’ve learned a lot from our previous discussion and I also expect that motivation brings you here to discover and learn more about how to make money. Honestly guys we have many ways in making money online, aka e-commerce. We have the so called business process outsourcing. Examples of these are survey answering, content writing, clicking ads, reading emails, etc. Who among you guys have gone through those things? Some of them are just scams (I know the government is taking actions against them) but they can easily be spotted. But they are not our subjects now.

Alright, one of the bests and easy ways to make money online is through affiliation. I say the best because their products are widely scattered ranging from smallest item to bulk merchandise, from ordinary thing to personalized commodities, it’s up to you to select, you can review anything that best suit your preference.

I’m going to teach you how to do it. Alright, affiliation or affiliate marketing is defined as contract between two parties where one firm (the marketer/seller) pays another (the affiliate – this is you) for transactions made through the promotional transactions of the latter (you) using the latter’s webpage or social media account.

In traditional business, in civil law, lawyers call this as contract to sell, or agency to sell. In e-commerce, this is called affiliate marketing or marketing associate.

Many giant companies are opening affiliate marketing system or program. Alright, for the sake of newbies, affiliate marketing is giving you an opportunity to earn huge income ranging from 1% up to 50% commission, in dollars. In short, you’ll be paid for advertising their products through your blogs, websites, or social media accounts such as facebook or twitter.

Alright a guy here from Nigeria, a Doctor of Philosophy, asked a question, let me rephrase the question, “What are we going to do? Sell the product?” Alright, thank you for that very nice and relevant question. The answer is it depends upon the company you are going to affiliate and to the country where you are a resident. Let us take for example in United States, their Federal Trade Commission requires the affiliate to make promotional transactions such as making reviews about the product.  Well, of course companies will not waste their money to pay you for doing nothing.

What is a review? A review is a certain commentary about the product per se. You have to give the public the knowledge about such product, why are you recommending it? You have to give them reason to buy such product.

Who will sell the product? Not you, because you are just an affiliate. The marketer will sell the product and the client will pay directly to the marketer. So how will the marketer know that such a customer purchased the product because of my promotion or review?

Alright, upon signing up with the marketer they will give you unique ID that you will use later on in creating links from review to the marketer’s product page. When the client purchased the product, it will register automatically to your account as an affiliate where you can check your earnings anytime and make withdrawals through your local bank.

In my case, I have Amazon.com. Well, you guys know Amazon, it is the largest online store in the world, followed by ebay. They won’t screw you up, to tell you people, they won’t ruin their business reputation with just a few hundreds or thousands of dollars. They built their name ever since and they gained such a good reputation in e-commerce.

Amazon has its market open worldwide and items are being delivered anywhere in the world because they have their own system of airlines and even runways. This means that I can promote its products not only in the local market but most importantly, worldwide.

Can you sign up with Amazon even without blog or website yet? Yes. You can register anytime and have your promotions later when your website is already published. To become part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for FREE, If you think it’s not beneficial, please do not do so. Thank you guys.

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