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You have, or want to create a website online - you want to get people to that site so you can tell them all something about you or something that you find interesting. How do I know this?, simple you are here - this site is about this kind of stuff.
Now wouldn't it be nice if you could have a second source of income from the internet thanks to your own website?, some company somewhere in the world putting money into your account or sending you regular cheques (checks to my american visitors!). You can do it yourself, there are plenty of sources of information around, first you need to get hooked up with some networks that hook you up with the online stores who you will promote on your site. Get registered for free with networks as step 1.
Once you are in the network, you can then pick the kinds of stores who offer things that your sites visitors may be interested in buying or subscribing to. Place banners on existing pages, and write up reviews of products if you like too, only go for products you believe in so you can build trust with your visitors as a reliable source of information.
By simply writing about things you enjoy and embedding links to offers you are paid commissions for the sale made as a result of the link on your site.
Once you get the idea of things you can then move on to downloading entire product catalogues which you can then add to your site these are provided for free from the retailers via the affiliate networks.
1- Pay per sale. This is probably the most common. This is where the affiliate website sends the customer to a merchants website. That person then buys something. The merchant will then either pay a percentage of the amount paid, or a fixed amount per sale to you as the affiliate.
2 - Pay per click. This is where the affiliate gets paid for the quantity of visitors that click on a link from your affiliate website and go to the merchant website. You don't need to sell anything, you get paid just for the click that takes the visitor to the merchant site.
3 - Pay per lead. Where the affiliate sends visitors to the merchant who then signs up for something. This is typically a short questionnaire which allows the merchant to then follow that customer up with a phone call. It can also enable the merchant to then sell those leads to another company.
4 - Two Tier Programs. This is where the affiliate earns money in two different ways. Firstly by sending the merchant customers, and the other for recruitment of new affiliates.
5 - Residual Based Programs. This is a variation of the pay per sale model, but in this type of program, the affiliate continues to earn an income from the customer sent to the merchant, each time the customer buys more goods or services. One example of this is gambling merchants who offer you a percentage of the money staked by a customer you sent them for as long as the customer uses the merchant site.
We have listed the major networks below which you can join today and get money earning banners from. It's really easy to create your own basic website to showcase anything you want to the world as your audience, domain names are available from GoDaddy.
Read on to find out more about affiliate programs that are freely available on the networks to get an idea of how you can profit from joining even a few networks, we tell you how they operate, and how you can use them to benefit your web site, there are affiliate programs for almost every kind of product and most will accept you even if you only have a basic one page web site.
Affiliate programs are also known as associate programs, and are arrangements where an online merchant web site will pay its affiliate Web sites a commission to send them traffic through banner or text links that the merchant provides for you. The affiliates place links to the merchant site, and are paid a bounty either for just sending someone to the site or a much higher bounty if the visitor buys something from the merchant. Setting up an affiliate scheme is a great way to sell your products online if you are a merchant yourself, but it can also be a cheap and effective marketing strategy; it's a good way to promote your site and get lots of inbound links.
There are at least three levels involved in an affiliate program transaction:
In 1996 Amazon.com started the idea as an Internet marketing strategy. Affiliates of Amazon.com added links to books for sale on Amazon.com to their own web sites, on the promise that a percentage of the sale is paid to them if someone clicks on the link and then makes a purchase. The affiliate initiated the sale ideally by pre-selling (illustrating the benefits or how great the product is beforehand), and then Amazon.com did everything else to complete the transaction: Order processing, collect the payment for the product and shipping the product to the customer. With more than half a million affiliates, Amazon.com is certainly a world leader in the success of affiliate programs.
Recently affiliate programs have become extremely popular, becoming increasingly varied in how they are run and revenue is calculated. Web sites that are not e-commerce based can find affiliate marketing a fun way to enjoy the potential of e-commerce and perhaps use affiliate marketing as a lead to their own e-commerce sites as more potential customers visit their sites.
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