Make money online through affiliate marketing

Today affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to earn money online. You could do it according to your convenient in your spare time and earn extra income or even replace your entire income if you become successful at it. It do not require any investment, all you need to have is a computer and an internet connection.

What is affiliate marketing?

In simple words the term "affiliate marketing" means marketing or selling products on someone behalf. It is just a process in which you refer various products to online shoppers, and in return sellers offer you great incentives for the sale. Incentives could depend on various affiliate programs, sometime it could be 50% commissions on products you refer to customers. You are given your own links to a product so the seller knows when a customer you referred buys their product.

What are the features of affiliate marketing?

Below are the few features of affiliate marketing.

• Online affiliate marketing do not require any investment.
• It can create a great source of passive income.
• Unlike traditional business you don’t have to work through our your life.
• You could work as a part time according to your convenient.
• This could be best option after your retirement.
• As everything is online, you could get your potential customer across the globe.
• If you become successful, you could think doing it as full time profession.

How to start affiliate marketing?

There are various affiliate program available online, you could just create your free account and start with the process. All you need to do is refer the products to as many people you can, and probably you could get sales if you get the potential buyers.

Below are the lists of few affiliate programs.

ClickBank (http://www.clickbank.com)
Amazon affiliate program (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com)
Commission Junction (http://www.cj.com)
PayDotCom (http://paydotcom.com)
LinkShare (http://www.linkshare.com)
Plimus (http://www.plimus.com)
ShareaSale (http://www.shareasale.com)
Etc.

Where to start affiliate marketing?

Blogging : You could start your own blog where you could write about the products and provide source link of the product. Probably your readers came to the blog because they have some sort of interests in that product and you could get a sale. You could start any blog of your desire topic and once you get decent traffic you can easily start your online affiliate business.

Guest blogging : For some reason if you cannot start your own blog, you could search for opportunities for guest blogging. Select those blogs which have high traffic, write niche articles and provide your products source links. Hopefully you will get potential buyers.

Website / Forums : If you get initial success, you could thing of creating your own website or Forums. You do not require depending on any others source. All you need to do is get domain name and hosting space. And you could create your own website with your own ideas which may get high traffic and probably many potentials buyers.

Social networking : You could even use your facebook account OR any other social networking sites to start affiliate marketing. You may get potential buyers in your own network, just create a strong network buy joining various online communities and Forums.

Success does not comes over night, it requires a dedication. You can eventually have great success with affiliate marketing just choose quality products to market and sell them effectively.