Affiliate Marketing 101 – Blogging for Dollars
Affiliate Marketing is an Internet marketing channel which started around 1994 with a pay-per-click program (PPC) hosted by an adult website. Amazon launched what it calls its“associate” program in 1996 and is considered to be the premier affiliate program. Since then, Affiliate Marketing has skyrocketed into a billion dollar industry with Forrester predicting that it will be a $4 billion market by 2014. There’s no reason why you can’t have a piece of that pie.
It simply involves generating sales or leads for a merchant or company who pay you a commission. This makes you their affiliate or “publisher” in the industry jargon. The easiest way is to put a link to that merchant’s site or products and have visitors to your site click through and make a purchase or provide their information. The commission rate can vary from 1% of the sale amount up to even 75% in some cases. Some companies will pay you a “bounty” for a lead which can be a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. Sounds easy, right? Well it is easy to get started, but to be successful takes a lot of work and maybe just a tad bit of luck.
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