Basics of Affiliate Marketing

What Are the Basics of Affiliate Marketing.

The concept of affiliate marketing is you don't need to have your own product to sell you can sell other peoples products and earn commission. It is done online and you don't need to sell door to door or face to face.

The easiest way to understand it is think of yourself as the salesman, who is sell a product or service that you've mastered. This is basics of affiliate.

People have all kinds of products and services that they want to sell online. The way they can be successful is by having large amount of traffic to their website. The way they can accomplish this is by having salesman or affiliate to promote their products.

When someone from your traffic buy their product you get a commission what ever is full price. Most of the vendor will pay 50% to 75% commission to their affiliates.Once you are Successful affiliate you can earn good amount of money.  

In coming posts, I will focus on one of the easiest affiliate networks to get started – Clickbank and will list few others. Once you learn how an affiliate network like Clickbank works, you will be able to expand that to other larger networks that have lots of  different products and services that pay good commission.

Clickbank is one of the largest, oldest affiliate networks on online. Clickbank sells only digital products, is extremely easy to learn how to use. They have ton of vendors just waiting to snap up a good affiliate.

You don't have to wait to become a part of the Clickbank affiliate family, you can register today and start straightway. They pay much higher commissions than the other networks.

Clickbank is an affiliate network where there are whole bunch of vendors and affiliates all working under the umbrella organization called Clickbank.

Through Clickbank, lot of products and services are bought and sold, everyday. Before I go any further, let’s look at what you can potentially earn from one product.

 If  you promote and sell top selling product which pays 50% commission and will pay monthly for life. Just for example: you sell a product which is sold at $197, by selling just one you will be earning $97 for life. It sounds like a pretty exciting right? (Please note not all product are sold at this price & you can't start selling high ticket product straightway).

 So, that means that for every person who signs up through your affiliate link (which will be explained in a minute), you will be paid each month till that person continue to stay with the vendor.

Imagine if with that one product 100 people from your link buy the product and continue to stay how much you can earn with just one product.  I hope you are beginning to see how lucrative affiliate marketing can be?

Once you have learn the system well if you only have 10 affiliate programs like above how much you can start earning. This is not only possible, but not that hard to accomplish if you know how.

Today look on Clickbank and find 10 things that you think you might want to sell. If you are not resisted do that today. Make a list because as you learn more, you may want to revise it, and you may find that your choices are good as gold.