Affiliate marketing can be defined as advertising an organization's products on their behalf, and earning a percentage of a sale on their website, that are the direct result your marketing efforts.
Let's take Amazon.com as an example. You register as an affiliate seller with Amazon.com, and create your own website or Facebook page from where you will market their products. You have to choose a selected amount of products which will feature on your own platform. Each affiliate gets a tracking code that has to be built into the product that links back to Amazon.com, and each time someone clicks on the link and actually buys the product from Amazon, you get paid a small commission.
Becoming an Affiliate seller is an easy way to get in the market and start making money without the start-up costs that are associated with having to develop your own product. There are many Affiliate networks to join and each of these will have different products and procedures. According to a recent survey, the biggest affiliate networks are Commission Junction (www.cj.com); ShareASale (www.shareasale.com) and Rakuten (www.rakuten.com)
Check out the following platfroms to get started with Affiliate Marketing:
