Check out our Affiliate Marketing Course, starting by answering the question: What is Affiliate Marketing? We explain affiliate marketing in this video and show you some examples that you can use to get started. Our affiliate marketing tutorials, strategies, and best practices will help you earn more money from your website. It can be difficult to make money online in 2019, but affiliate marketing offers a lot of benefits with a small upfront cost and low-risk.

Affiliate Marketing Definition: A form of marketing where you advertise another companies products and/or services and earn a set commission for each product and/or service you sell.

How To Become An Affiliate Marketer: Create a website focused on a topic and write SEO-friendly content based on your keyword research.
Targeted traffic = Affiliate Marketing sales.

Who is Involved with Affiliate Marketing?

Merchant - The merchant is the company that sells the product or service and offers an affiliate program. Not all only merchants offer affiliate programs, but those that do allow you to promote their products or services for a commission.

Affiliate Marketer aka Publisher - The affiliate marketer is you, and they are responsible for promoting a product on their website, social media, or any channel where they have an audience.

Affiliate Network - The affiliate network is the exchange for the merchant and the affiliate marketer. The affiliate network tracks clicks and sales so they can pay commissions to the publisher.

Customer - The customer is the person who ends up buying the product or service from the merchant.

How Much Can You Earn From Affiliate Marketing? Most affiliate marketers fail because they lack a long-term strategy. Successful affiliate marketers work tirelessly and stick to a strategy. You can ONLY EARN A LOT OF MONEY if you work on your website, content, and marketing every single day.

Some of the top affiliate marketing marketing networks include Amazon Associates, ShareASale, Awin, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Marketing, eBay Partner Network, MaxBounty, FlexOffers, Target, and more. If you are interested in marketing another companies products, you will likely use their own network or one of these popular networks.

How do I become an affiliate marketer?

You first need to create a website and drive targeted traffic to it. Once you have some content and your website becomes established, you can apply to all sorts of relevant affiliate programs. When you get accepted, you need to promote products or services using your custom affiliate link.