How2MM – Learn How To Make Money Online

One of the most common ways of making money online is becoming an affiliate (partner) and sell products for a company or companies.

What is an affiliate?

An affiliate is an advertiser who partners with a company in order to sell its products and receive commissions (I’ll get to the commission on my next post) for the products sold.

If we take this concept to the real life, we can see that all the supermarkets, malls, stores, convenient stores are affiliates of companies and get commission for selling products such as clothes, food, newspapers cigarettes and basically anything people buy.

It’s the same online.

A webmaster, blog owner, person with a lot of friends and a lot of influence, can partner with a company and sell products for that company. The company will take care of everything relates to the actual sale of the product and the affiliate will take care of directing the costumer to the company.

Usually affiliates find the companies to partner with in affiliate programs or affiliate networks.

An affiliate program is usually a website in which the affiliate can choose the products he wishes to sell, get marketing tools (like banners, text and reviews) and follow his sale statistics. In addition the affiliate will handle the payment issues at the affiliate program.

An affiliate network is a network of affiliate programs. In one place the affiliate can partner with several affiliate programs instead of having to join several programs in different websites.

I will follow up on this post with further explanation about the process of becoming and affiliate.

Ben