What is Affiliate Marketing?

 Hey guys Nericia here, I hope all is well with you. I am just writing to let you guys know a little bit more about Affiliate Marketing, what it is and some of the pros and cons of becoming an affiliate marketer. 

Now there are many affiliate marketing platforms that are available and you can sign up for any ones that you want to. So before we get into it, let me just tell you what affiliate marketing is. 

Affiliate Marketing Is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more persons for each visitor or customer brought by that person by their own marketing efforts. So basically if you are an affiliate, you earn when the product or products you advertise is purchased from the links provided by the business you have promoted.

There are many businesses that have an affiliate marketing program, which I will list some of later on in this feature. Some affiliate programs are very easy,  while some can be a bit more complicated. Let me elaborate. So for some companies, you can go on the website, scroll all the way to the bottom, and in the information section just search affiliates or affiliate programs. When you click it is normally a link that takes you to the sign-up page where you are asked a bunch of questions and for your email and then viola you get a link and you can start promoting. 

While there are some affiliate programs where you have to apply, you answer a bunch of questions, then there is a small review that takes a few hours or days, where the company reviews your social networks and see if you will be able to drive visitors to their website. Either way, once you become approved and start promoting there is a system that is set in place to see how many visitors you brought to the website and how many sales were made by the visitors that were brought by you. 

Some programs give a commission for the number of clicks while in most cases your visitor has to actually make a purchase for you to make a commission.

Affiliate marketing is by no means easy, and it helps if you are able to pay to get your links out through paid advertising. Not everyone can do that, though and that is fine, there are a bunch of other free ways that you can use. There is Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Youtube all free platforms you can use, just to name a few and so many more. With affiliate marketing, you literally only need a laptop phone, or tablet and an internet connection and you are ready to go. You just get your links and start promoting and you are good to go. 

You don't have to worry about shipping, returns, packaging, or product sourcing, all of that is taken care of by the company, all you have to do is get your links out to the right audience and you will see yourself making profits from these sales. Some people make sales in their first week, or the first month, even the first day. I made my first sale after two months but that just shows that hard work pays off. All in all, it is a great job opportunity for stay-at-home moms, persons who go to school and want a passive income, this is something that can be done part-time or full-time. You are your own boss. So if you decide to become an affiliate marketer,

Here is a list of companies that I use

Amazon Associates

Jv zoo

Bluehost

Click bank 

Digistore 24 

and there are a lot more other companies that offer affiliate programs. Just find one that works for you. 

Keep safe and wash your hands..........