Selling without products: Introduction to affiliate programs

You don't have a product to sell, but you have a website, or a newsgroup or dicsussion group. You still can earn a potentially substantial income. How? The answer is by becoming an affiliate.

An affiliate, by internet terms, is a party that promotes other people's product by using the internet. In short, you market other peoples businesses. You are a marketing agent.

To start earning being an affiliates, you have to register with an affiliate management program.

The affiliate program will ascertain how you would have helped a merchant through your website. They will record business activities happening through your website. This can be in the form of a product sales, a clickthrough, a lead (where the visitor will leave information for the merchant to contact them), depending on what form of activities they pay, the affiliate manager will keep an account of what is due to you. Payment will normally be made on monthly basis. Below are some affiliates program to start with

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Affiliate Future

There are many affiliates program available on the net. There are some who 'cheat' people, or rather let their subscribers be cheated by a third party of their due, so do some research which ones are the good ones. To have more insight, There are some articles on affiliate program in the articles section.

Below is some web resource on affiliate marketing.

ABestWeb: an internet's affiliate marketing forum.

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