According to The World’s Glossary of Internet Terms,
“Affiliate Marketer is defined as: “A business relationship with a merchant or
other service provider who allows you to link to that business. When a visitor
clicks on the link at your site and subsequently makes a purchase from the
merchant, you receive a commission based on the amount of the sale, a referral
fee or a pay-for-click fee.”
This is a simple, straightforward
agreement between a merchant and an affiliate. Budding affiliate marketers run
into a problem when they try to reverse the success process. Instead of
starting at the beginning, they try to start at the end.
Making money is the end of the
process. The beginning of the process is education and there are several steps
in between. Too many people, who are just getting started in affiliate
marketing, fail to take the steps necessary to get to the end of the process
and actually make money.
Step #1: Educate yourself. This
is the key, opening the door of opportunity. It's also the common thread
connecting successful affiliate marketers. Education lays the foundation - the
building blocks to success. Start by gathering the best information you can
find about affiliate marketing and absorbing it.
Step #2: Turn that information
into usable knowledge. Even the best information remains kind of worthless,
however, until after you discover how to use it - how to make it serve your
purpose.
Step #3: Start applying the
knowledge ... take action ...start building your affiliate business. Will you
make mistakes, even though you've invested all that time educating yourself?
Yes, you most likely will make mistakes.
Step #4: Test and tweak, test and
tweak. This one never ends. And it's often the dividing line between succeeding
and failing. Attention to small details often returns big rewards.
Following these steps will define
you as a successful affiliate marketer.
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