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If you are already familiar with affiliate marketing, this e-book will give
you new techniques to add to your marketing arsenal so that you can
increase your affiliate earnings and expand on the methods that you
use in order to be successful.
Basics Of Affiliate Marketing
The concept of affiliate marketing is a variation on the outside sales
position except that it all happens
in cyber-space, and there is no door-to-door component.
Think of yourself as the salesman, one of many, for a specific product
or service and you’ve mastered the basics of what is an affiliate.
People have all kinds of products and services that they want to sell
online.
Part of the process to become successful is to have a large amount of
traffic that is interested in what you have to offer. The way you can
accomplish this is by having salesman or affiliate promote your
products.
When a sale is made, you share the earnings with your
affiliate/salesman through commissions.
Successful affiliates make a good living by promoting products and
services of other vendors in order to make that commission.
For the purposes of this e-book, I will focus on one of the easiest
affiliate networks to get started – ClickBank and list the others with a
brief look at the larger networks. Once you learn how an affiliate