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To be honest you’ve done this before and you did not even know! Affiliate marketing refers to the process of promoting a business or service and then getting paid for doing so. However offline you do this all the time. You recommend a business or a restaurant and tell your friends you should go there it’s great, but you never get paid!

Online it’s different. You can recommend a product or service and if the person buys based on your recommendation you get paid a percentage of the sale. This could be anything from 5% to 75% depending on the product or service.

Many large companies have affiliate programs such as Amazon, eBay, and even hotels. You simply place a link to from your website and get paid.

Ok so how can you use this? Let’s say you are a computer trainer. You might recommend people to buy a certain anti-virus software or perhaps a back up solution. Now instead of not getting paid, why not set up a website and list these products or review them on your site? Every time someone clicks and buys you get paid.  Make it a resource site and you could start to generate additional income.  Or you might set up a site about travel in your country. With a bit of searching you will find that many of the hotels have an affiliate program you can join. From a promoters point of view the great thing about affiliate marketing is you don’t have to develop the product or worry about customer service – the seller does all that, all you have to do is promote!

From a website point of view there’s plenty of opportunities, however as a business owner you can also set up an affiliate program and get others to promote your site and only pay them on a sale or no sale basis.  This in effect means that you can have an army of sales people who will promote your service on their site and you only have to pay them if they make a sale.

If you are selling digital products you can set up your product on clickbank.com and they will look after everything for you. You just set up an affiliate page on your website, and then people will automatically get paid from clickbank.  You don’t really need to do anything more.

If you are looking for affiliate products to promote clickbank is also great to find them, and you’re sure to find something in your niche.