3 Simple Steps to Start Affiliate Marketing by Edwin M. Clark

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to earn money on the internet. It is also one of the easiest to learn, provided you have the right knowledge base and outlook. You can't expect overnight success without having the key skills and know how to do so.

Many people do not even know the meaning of affiliate marketing so lets start there first. Affiliate marketing is basically a partnership between you and your affiliate where you agree to sell your affiliate's products. Every product that you sell for your affiliate you will receive a commission for the sale. The types of products you sell vary from physical products such as electronics and clothes to intellectual products such as ebooks.

Now there is a lot to affiliate marketing so I will just give you the brief notes on what to do.

Ok so what are the 3 Steps to start Affiliate Marketing?:

First step is the easiest. There is a website called clickbank.com, where you will find thousands of affiliate products. Sign up for the free membership and you will be assigned what is called a clickbank ID. This ID is yours and no one elses. So whenever an affiliate's product is sold your ID will get the credit and in turn you will receive a commission. Commissions vary from 10% - 70% so as you can see this is a pretty good way to generate a good extra income. There are dozens of other website such as clickbank that offer the same services. Doing a simple search on affiliate programs will show you more.

Second step is you will have to find the right products or niche products to sell. Since you have already signed up to access clickbank and its multitude of products you can start researching and finding what you think people will want and need so that they will buy from you.

Third step and this one is a little more tricky is that you will have to market the hot items you want to sell. You have to tell people, show people that you have what they need and make them want to buy from you.

Now the third step is the hardest because you will have competition. Just like a regular competition in the real world you will have people trying to sell the same products you are. So you have to make yourself easy for your customers to find you. Remember, customers do not want to do a lot of searching to buy what they need. So being easy to find is the key to successful internet marketing.

Well how do you do that? There are many ways to have internet traffic lead to your website and can get quite complex. I would suggest doing some research on the internet. You will find many home based internet business courses that can teach you how to delve further into the highly lucrative field of affiliate marketing!

Edwin M. Clark is one of the founding members of "The Affiliate Program Reporter" To read and find out more information about their findings and reviews in the field of home based internet business courses check out The Affiliate Program Reporter

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