Create an Income Stream - Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is the process of selling other people's products and earning a commission in return for whatever you sell. By selling other people's products you never have to hold any inventory or create products of your own to sell. By signing up for an affiliate marketing account you are allowed access to a whole database of potential digital products to sell. You can sell them by creating a website and writing reviews on the products that you're promoting. It helps to know a little about what you're promoting. But you don't have to buy it and try it to even be able to sell it. Within the affiliate marketing provider's website, the most popular one being Clickbank, you can decide which product you want to promote. Picking one is easy because, when you click on the product's link right in Clickbank, up will pop another window taking you to the product's sales page. From there you'll learn about the product and decide if it's right for you. Once you've picked one, Clickbank will give you a unique user code, and HTML code, which will act as a unique identifier for only you so that when someone clicks on your HTML link in your website or blog, Clickbank will recognize it as you and properly credit commissions to you, in the event someone does purchase the product you are promoting. Commissions can be as high as 90%, in some cases.

Here's how the process works:
You sign up at Clickbank, for example, to promote certain products and receive a unique link that has a tracking code in it. This code is unique to your account, and it will track if and when any sales are made from your unique affiliate link. You simply drive traffic to that affiliate link, and any sales commissions that result are transferred immediately into your account. You can build a website or do a product review on a blog and encode your affiliate link for that particular product right into the text of your postings. When someone clicks on the link it will automatically take them to the same sales page you saw when you were first deciding which product to choose. From there it's up to the customer to decide if they want to purchase. If they do you get paid a commission. You don't have to limit yourself to one product. You can promote as many as you want and have the time to promote.

So try it out and see for yourself.