How to make money on affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing?
This is an advertising tool, which uses a link to an advertised or sold item. Sellers get the opportunity to reach a wider circle of buyers, and customers get access to additional product information. If the user follows the link and choose the product, you get a commission.
How it works?
There are several ways to become a marketing partner.
The main option is posting links on a site or on your blog.
The second way is social networks.
Social networks increase brand awareness and and conveys information to the target audience. And the best way in terms of price and quality is the sending of emails.
Whichever option you choose, you will need a base. A website, blog, social media page, or list of mailing list addresses. Then you need to register.
There is a different approach, some platforms are intermediaries between companies and those who offer placement of their own goods. All partners have their own connection conditions and selection criteria.
Some platforms require a fixed number of visitors to your site or blog before you receive offers, others must prove that you are promoting their products, and some are ready to meet you and use different approaches.
Once approved, they will give you several web links or a system for adding links to your products. Operating conditions vary by platform. “Depending on the platform, you will be credited with either clicking on the link or selling the product.
Platforms have their own method of accounting for action. This can be a link or a product purchase.” Each partner pays a different percentage, which varies from 2.5% to 50%.
How much money can you earn?
If you have low traffic at the start on the site / blog / social networks / email list, you can count on about a hundred dollars. When your network is known and successful, it can bring you significant revenue. You must remember that the commission will be paid on time indicated by the platform. The commission can be paid at different times, sometimes you have to wait up to 60 days.
Where to look for partners for links?
Google, this is the easiest option.
In order to better understand how it works, find professional communities or take a training course. Do not stop, even if it did not work out the first time, you will gain invaluable experience.