Affiliate Marketing

Hi all, I welcome you today to my post on Affiliate Marketing on my teachings on how to earn an income online.

Affiliate marketing is actually based on a very simple concept. It’s all about helping the myriad of businesses who market their products and services online sell them, and you in turn earning commissions (a percentage) for each product or service you help them sell. Affiliate marketing is really very straight forward; sell something to somebody and earn a commission in return. Sounds very uninteresting right?
You will ask, ‘what’s the difference from someone who opens a shop across the street or even in the market?’ By telling you that this method of making money on the internet is still by selling something then where's the difference from selling offline? Now know the difference. The difference lies in the potential reach of the different markets you both operate in. Your neighbours market is limited to the people in his immediate vicinity, while yours is not. Your market is everybody who has access to an internet connected computer anywhere in
the world! Got it?
This proposition sounds very simple, but it will require lots of imagination to see all the possibilities that it has for you. Presently, there are about 1 billion people with access to the internet (which is constantly increasing), and this makes the Internet the world’s largest marketplace. It is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There are no weekends, no public holidays and no strikes! So let’s kick-off!

Welcome to the lucrative world of Affiliate marketing. In the simplest terms, this is what happens - You send people to someone else's website. They buy something or sign up for something (i.e. fill out a form or survey) and you are paid a commission. It is a revenue sharing arrangement set up between companies selling products or services and affiliates (you). You are rewarded for sending
customers to the company's website (and in most cases who eventually buy).
These pay-per-sale or pay-per-lead programs are easy to join. In an affiliate program, a company (website) pays you to generate sales for them from your pay-per-click advert, banner, newsletter or email. There are thousands of companies that will pay you commissions for the sales or leads you generate for them.
To join an affiliate program is totally free and easy to do. You are not required to buy and stock the product (as in distributorships). It just involves filling out a form – just as you do when you sign-up for an email account. Affiliate marketing is the ideal way to quickly and easily make money online as you do not need to come up with your own product or service. All you need
do is choose a way to promote someone else's product or service effectively. You can actually begin making money in as little as 15 minutes!
EARN COMMISSIONS WITHOUT SALES!

In some affiliate programs, the persons you refer to a website do not even need to buy anything. If they fill out a form, request a free report or download  software for trial, you get paid. There are several web sponsors that have several of these pay-per-lead programs.

To start basically, what you need to do is to drive internet traffic to a website or company that you partner with. How you do this does not matter, it could be from a banner advert on your website, a link in your e-mail, your newsletter or from an advert in a pay-per-click search engine e.g (www.Google.com). You can also promote Affiliate Programs through Facebook ads (www.facebook.com/advertising) and using Google ad words.

Google Ad Words is a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising system run by Google. This is presently the best advertising system developed by man so far as you are only charged when and only when someone clicks on your advert. Google Ad Words appear as little text ads on the right of your search results on Google.com

You write Google Ad Words ads promoting a company’s product or service. In your Google Ad Words ad is a link, and when your Ad Words ad is clicked this link contains information about you and shows that the visitor came through you. When the user gets to the site you are promoting, your affiliate ID is registered automatically. Now when the customer buys something or fills out a form on the site, you are paid a commission.
However, if the customer does not buy at the time, you do not need to worry as many merchant sites place small programs called "cookies" on the customers computer for as long as 180 days which is about 6 months. This means that if that customer comes back to the site on a later date and makes a purchase or registers for
something, you still get your commission.

Things you need:
Access to the internet (a cafe is very OK).
A few hours of work weekly.
A credit or debit card (You can get this from most Nigerians Banks)
A domiciliary account.
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