About Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate Marketing Basics
By Mary Stansifer

If you have a website, or if you're considering starting a
website business, affiliate marketing is a concept you
might benefit from understanding and using.

Affiliate marketing allows you, as a website owner and
business, to affiliate your internet business with other
internet businesses and get paid for it. Affiliate
marketing works this way: when a visitor to your website
clicks on an affiliate ad on your site, and then purchases
something from that affiliate business, the affiliate
program pays your business a portion of the purchase that
was made.

Affiliate business opportunities abound; affiliate programs
vary widely. Some are free to participate in, some are not.
Some affiliate programs require just an up-front fee;
others charge a recurring fee (monthly, quarterly, annual).

Affiliate business opportunities also differ widely in the
amount your business would receive from a purchase made by
your site visitor. Some affiliates pay a percentage of the
purchase; others pay a flat amount.

It would be great to get a portion of what someone else
spends, just because they linked from your website to where
they made the purchase, wouldn't it!

But it gets even better. Some home business affiliate
programs not only sell products, but they are also sites
that you have joined. And your marketing effort is to get
the visitor to your site to click on the affiliate ad on
your website and go to that affiliate site and also join.
When they join, you get a portion of the signup fee; with
some programs you get the entire signup fee.

But wait, that's not all! There's more. Now that your
visitor is also a member of the affiliate, he/she will be
putting that same affiliate ad on their website and they
will be doing affiliate marketing, just as you are. What's
great about that is that for every visitor to their site
that they get to join, you will also get a portion of that
signup fee. And that pattern continues as your visitor, and
their visitors, and all their visitor's visitors sign up.
Each time any of these people join and then get others to
join, you are getting a residual from the affiliate. Just
think, if you got just 3 visitors to your site to sign up,
and each of them got 3 visitors to sign up, you've already
got 9 people marketing for you. You're getting a piece of
the action every time anyone signs up under any of them. If
those 9 people who are marketing for you each got 3 people
to join, suddenly you have 27 people marketing for you. And
if each of these 27 gets only 3 people to join, there you
are with 81 people marketing for you. And all you have to
do is cash the checks that will be arriving when the
affiliate programs pay you.

If you are reviewing home business affiliate programs, try
to select programs that will be of interest to visitors to
your site. For example, if your website business is focused
on selling cat food and other cat care products, then you
should try to affiliate with other sites that are also of
interest to cat owners, such as veterinary service
providers, bookstores selling books on cat care, cat
boarding service providers, animal grooming boutiques,
magazines for pet owners, etc.

Make internet business your business. A home business
affiliate program can help you jump start your internet
business. Make the decision today to make affiliate
business your business.

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