Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is an Internet based marketing in which a affiliates get rewarded for each visitor or customer brought item or customer filling in the profile by the affiliate's marketing efforts. An Affiliate can sell anything online from physical products like DVD, vitamin supplements to digital products like eBooks and music mp3 files.

Affiliate marketing resembles other Internet marketing methods to some extent, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. This involves organic search engine optimization (SEO), paid search engine marketing (PPC), e-mail marketing, and also display (banner) advertising.

Job of the Affiliate is to expose the product to potential buyers. Making the sales however does require some work on your part as an affiliate. The whole marketing process can be an interesting one also challenging for some. The dot com boom and increasing interest and usage of the internet as the main source for information has created many opportunities for products to be sold online.