Affiliate Marketing News: What Is It and Where To Find It?

by Syafrein Effendiuz by Alexander Bee

In the next couple of weeks I will publish a series of articles, each will detail a step on the way to a rewarding affiliate marketing business. The first article is written for people who are completely new to the subject and are still looking for information.

I will suggest a simple definition of affiliate marketing and show some simple ideas for finding lucrative products.

This first article is not for experienced marketers neither is it for those who know and understand affiliate marketing and know how to find good products, as it covers only the essential basics. My following articles will hopefully discuss more complex steps and thus may be of interest even to experienced marketers.

I will start by explaining what affiliate marketing is. Well, I like to say that Affiliate Marketing is to the 21st century what the Gold Rush was to the 19th century. The gold is there - one only needs to find it. But, on a more practical note: Affiliate Marketing is simply an agreement between you and a merchant or a product publisher, that says that the merchant will pay you a percentage of each and every sale he or she makes to a customer that you have driven to their web site.

There are different types of products: material products - from face cream to a million dollar villa; digital products - software, ebooks, videos, that can be downloaded instantly from the Internet; and products in the form of registrations to courses, opts-in to email lists etc. Many thousands of merchants pay commissions to their affiliates for sales and for leads.

As I said, the treasures are there, all over the world of affiliate marketing. The question is how one discovers it. It is a fact that many newbies in this field find that their first step - choosing the right product - is the hardest step on the road to successful affiliate marketing.

Here are a few ways to start:

1. Promote a product that you have bought online and really liked. The way to do it is to go back to the merchant's website or sales letter, look for a link that says "affiliates" and click on it. There you will find how to become an affiliate and what the terms are. Subscribe for free and start promoting the product.

2. Do you have any hobbies? Things you know a lot about like a sport, music, cooking, whatever. You may also participate in forums in which your interests are discussed. This will be very helpful in the future when you promote products associated with your hobbies. Let's assume you like sewing; you have a lot of information about cloth, patterns, and sewing machines. Look for any kind of product in the field of sewing which you can easily promote.

3. Think of products that are on the hot list in the United States, do a little research and find out if the Europeans heard about them. If not yet, promote these products in Europe only, using the different pay per click programs that let you choose the areas where your ads are shown. The same can be done with a product that you've found in any foreign country and is not yet known in the US

4. Talk to your children and/or other teenagers and try to find out what their newest fads are. Teenagers are great customers.

5. Subscribe to or buy regularly some popular publications. Follow the reports on the newest fads and fashions.

6. And, obviously: become an affiliate at Commision Junction, ClickBank and other such services. Their database has thousands of products and they'll let you know what the best sellers are.

See you in a couple of day with Part 2 of the step-by-step plan to successful affiliate marketing.

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