What is Affiliate Marketing?

If you have been looking into working online, you've probably heard of affiliate marketing. If you have and you are confused, or if you haven't and are curious, I will tell you what it is and what it isn't.

Affiliate marketing is when a person/company pays you a percentage for reffering someone who goes on to buy something. Ok? So you find someone on the internet who you think wants to buy such-and-such product, you send them to your affiliate link, if they buy the product you make money! Simple? Sort of.

So, how the heck do you find someone who's interested in your product? Well, a very popular method is writing articles with affiliate links in them. You can start a web page which pre-sells the person. You tell them certain benefits that the sales page doesn't, tell them why you like the product.

Affiliate marketing is popular because it's cheap and mostly simple, just don't think that you won't have to work, you will. I suggest you find a good step by step program which walks you through how to go about affiliate marketing. I can show you three of these at http://www.moneymakingmadnessonline.com