Selling other peoples' Products

by Tunde Obasemola Affiliate Marketer

It is not so easy to create a product. It is equally not all that easy to get your product out to the market for wide acceptance. In order to get the product to the buyers, another party comes in and that party is the affiliate. An affiliate is that person who sells another's product without first necessarily buying. He sells and receives commission from the owner of the product. A major method of selling is by just driving traffic to the principal's website.

This form of marketing known as affiliate marketing is by far the easiest way of entering into business. This is because it involves little or no initial capital outlay. The affiliate in modern times need no warehouse. He does not have to take insurance policy for the goods he sells. In fact, he runs no risk. He does not need to take care of customer's complaints or worry about goods returned etc. How the goods reach the buyer is ultimately the headache of the owner of the product.

Most often, the principal provides most of the tools for marketing. For example, he creates a website to which he gives the affiliate link to promote. The responsibility of the affiliate is to spread the word about his link to a very wide audience thereby increasing awareness about the product. For the informed affiliate, he may create a blog, a little website with well targeted key words that will rank well in google, do a little advertisement to drive traffic to the site.

As an affiliate you are not limited to promoting one product. You have the opportunity to promote as many as the products that interests you. Thus you have the chance too to make as much money as you want. One thing that will attract you is the percentage of your commission. Higher commission atracts more people to promote.

Are you thinking of becoming an affiliate, simply go to google search and write the words "affiliate offers" or you may be niche specifi; for example "health affiliate offers", Finito, you are in business.