What is Affiliate Marketing?

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Without affiliate marketing, my blogging success would not have been possible. When I first started making money online, it was through earning commissions on Amazon.com and sending new visitors to their site. Back in the day, when I referred a customer to Amazon and they made a purchase, I would then earn a commission on that sale. Jump ahead to 2010 and affiliate marketing has expanded like crazy and is making more people more money than ever.

With over a decade of experience, stories of success/failures  and a passion for affiliate marketing, that became my gateway  into starting my own blog. Without the passion and interest for  writing about my blog topic, I would have had a much harder time becoming a prominent voice in this industry, and the blog would have probably failed.

In short, affiliate marketing is the backbone of how many  successful blogs and businesses make money online. This guide  was created for the use of both blogging and affiliate marketing. Before jumping into creating your own blog, you must first understand the basics of affiliate marketing.
In short, affiliate marketing is the backbone of   how many successful blogs and  businesses make money online.

How Affiliate Marketing Works
In the past how did companies measure return on investment for their advertising methods, such as billboard advertising and TV commercials? It wasn’t easy. No longer are companies putting all  of their advertising dollars towards billboards, print and television and just hoping for results. Companies have now been turning their advertising budget towards affiliate marketing and the  internet. With affiliate marketing everything is tracked, companies can tell exactly what the return on their advertising investment is.
Who bought what… when, where, how and sometimes even why.