JOIN AN AFFILIATE PROGRAMME TODAY AND WALK YOUR WAY TO INTERNET RICHES

WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING?

Affiliate marketing also known as referrer marketing is the process of selling the products or services of another person or firm with the view to earning a commission cheque for any sales that is generated. Immediately after the affiliate get registered on the merchant websites.  An affiliate id and clickable links is placed on his website which can be used to track any sales that comes through his website. The affiliate is paid for every referral he makes through his website. Some merchant have cookies on their websites which enable all sales to be track and then credited to the original personal who makes the referral.

Affiliate marketing is unique in the sense that it saves the marketer from the stress of owning a products or services. The marketer simply concentrates on selling the products and services of a merchant for a take home pay.

TYPES OF AFFILIATES PROGRAMMES

Finding affiliates programmes to promote is not too difficult as there are plenty of sites running one form of programmes. However, to make your job less challenging you can rely on search engines such as Google.com yahoo.com and msn.com   These websites have a giant spider that can help you to scan the web for an affiliate programme.

ONLINE MERCHANT THAT RUN AFFILIATES PROGRAMMES

There are a lot of online merchant that you can join to promote their programmes. Majority of these programmes are free to join. Just visit their website and sign up. You will have to fill a profile page and after adding your username and password your account will be verified.

Below are a list of some of the popular online merchant that you can join to promote their products and services. Some affiliates offer a commission of up to 40 % on a products and services. This is quite common with Electronic products and E-books. Dating and pornographic programmes pay good commission.

AMAZON

EBAY

CLICKBANK

SFIMG

ADULTFRIENDFINDER

PLIMUS

FREELANCER

AFROINTRODUCTION

MATCH.COM

RADIOSHACK

WALLMART

WALLGREENS

BESTBUY

RULES YOU MUST OBSERVE BEFORE JOINING ANY AFFILATES PROGRAMMES

The internet is littered with thousands of affiliate programmes offering one form of commission. Some affiliates merchants does not really help the affiliates with promotional incentives. For a beginner who want to be successful in online business, he or she

Should conduct a proper research.

PERSONAL LINE OF INTEREST

Before joining any programme, make sure it relates to your personal line of interest. It is common knowledge that you can promote a programme that you enjoy doing.

HIGHLY PAYING AFFILIATE PROGRAMMES

Join programmes that pay better commission. It is better you earn

CREDIBILITY

Join programmes that have some considerable years of online presence. It is widely believed that affiliate programmes that have been online for a long time is likely to be honest to their affiliates. There do a careful research to get the better ones.

ASK OTHER OLDER MEMBER

Ask other affiliates, if they have encountered any problem before. The information you get will let you know whether to join or not.

ONLINE CUSTOMER CARE

Are they prepared to answer or respond to your question in real time and or a suitable time?  If they are not, you just have to look for better ones.

AFFILIATE PROMOTIONAL TOOLS

Join programmes that offers marketing tools for easy promotion of the programmes

EASY MEANS OF COLLECTION OF AFFILIATE CHEQUE

Join programmes that offers you an easy means of collecting your commission cheques

MEMBERSHIP FEES

Does joining involves a registration fees or affiliates charge? Is the charge a one time fees, monthly or yearly fees.

FREEDOM TO PROMOTE THE PROGRAMMES

Does the programmes offer me the freedom to promote the programme with my own tools? There are programmes that is highly restricted by the terms and condition of the merchants

EXTRA EXPENDITURE

Does the programmes involve extra expenditures such as developing a website of my own?

COOKIES

Do the merchant have cookies on their website? Will I be paid for any purchases that is make through my earlier referrals, since the system have cookies that provide such information.