If you think about it, people go online and type a question or a problem on the search bar. Or, they go to websites related to their needs to find out more. So, when a prospect finds a shopping site with only buy now buttons, a prospect will want to find out more about the product or the service by looking elsewhere.

Before we go deeper into affiliate marketing, let’s clarify one thing. You don’t need to develop a new product to sell online. For years, people assumed one can only do business online by having something to sell. This is how ebay became extremely popular to common folks.

All these changed when affiliate marketing was discovered by the majority of serious internet traders. With the many cheap hosting options now, producing a money maker in the form of a simple web page is now easy. A review website is the most common form of affiliate marketing.

An affiliate promotes products created and sold by others in exchange for a small commission. The internet is the best place for an affiliate because there are so many products that can be delivered from anywhere in the world to the customers. A business with an affiliate program can set up a system by which sales can be tracked back to the affiliate who referred the customer.

All the big businesses online are looking for affiliates to help them sell their products. Anyone with an internet connection can promote products for these companies and get paid a commission. Amazon.com wouldn’t be this big now if it weren’t for hard working affiliates.

How can one start with marketing as an affiliate? It’s easy enough to join an affiliate program for a company. Look for the join as affiliate button on the main site. One good example is Amazon.com’s “join associates” link at the bottom of any page on there.

Other companies only divulge their affiliate programs through marketing networks like commission junction (www.cj.com), Share a Sale (www.shareasale.com) or clickbank (www.clickbank.com).. These are the places where internet marketers hang out. Try these places on for size. You can choose which products to promote depending on your expertise. If you’re a bookworm, promote books. If you’re a sports fan, go for sports gear.

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