Affiliate Marketing

How affiliate marketing offers you a different way of making money from your website.

You can think of Affiliate marketing on the internet as either a bizarre but interesting way of doing business or just a natural progression from the days when all businesses used middle-men to sell or distribute their goods and services.

In the real world businesses still do use middle-men and agencies to widen their access to markets that on their own they couldn't hope to sell into.  It makes sense - the agent makes a good living and the original supplier sells more in total.

Win-win stuff.

On the internet affiliate marketing has become much much easier. You don't even need to meet or talk with the people whose products you are selling.  In fact it has got so easy that all you need to do to make money is to introduce a buyer via your affiliate link to a seller who may be on the other side of the world.

Make money with Ads by Google  (this would be your Clickbank hoplink)

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Ironically a type of middleman has developed to assist the growth of these relationships.  These are businesses such as Clickbank or CommissionJunction that help put web publishers and product developers together.  They build tools that enable a range of web publishers to act as affiliates for a range of producers all using the same type of link.

Take Clickbank for example.  There are over 10,000 products sold via Clickbank now and yet to sell one or all of these products and get your commission, you only need to use a simple encoded link that is the same format for all these products.

As a publisher it is likewise: you can use the same Clickbank facilities to sell a whole range of information products.

For non-information products the process is not quite so straightforward but the principles still apply.

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