Affiliate Program

What Is An Affiliate Program? An affiliate program is where you promote a company's product, service or website by directing traffic. In return the company gives you a commission for each transaction that is made by your directed traffic. Depending on the company, you could make anywhere from 5% up to 75% in commission for each sale.

Which Companies Offer Affiliate Programs?

A majority of big vendors or companies have affiliate program available. Those companies advocate affiliate program clearly understand that some affiliates have so much positive impact on the companies' net profit.

An Example Of A Company That Offers Affiliate Programs

Some companies have only one objective, to manage affiliate program. They don't have their own "Products To Sale." Instead, they manage thousands and thousands of online companies and vendors that offer both digital and tangible products or services.

Whether or not the companies have their own products, you'll able to distinguish those management companies that offer affiliate program by the two types of accounts available:

  • Merchant Account: A merchant account is for a vendor or a company who has products or a services to sale online that offers affiliate program.
  • Affiliate Account: An affiliate account is for an individual who wants to promote another company's products or services for a commission.

An excellent example of such company is ClickBank. ClickBank manages over 10,000 online products and services. ClickBank has a large selection of products or services for affiliates to chose from. All products and services fit into 9 major categories, which cover just about everything:

  1. Business to Business
  2. Health & Fitness
  3. Home & Family
  4. Computing & Internet
  5. Money & Employment
  6. Marketing & Ads
  7. Fun & Entertainment
  8. Sports & Recreation
  9. Society & Culture

An Affiliate Could Make Money In 4 Steps

  1. Create a FREE account with ClickBank.
  2. Select a product from ClickBank Marketplace.
  3. Setup and AdWords account with Google.
  4. Create and Run your AdWord ads.