What is affiliate marketing

Affiliate Marketing is an Online based marketing technique where a business rewards it affiliates for each visitor or customer brought to its website. Some business rewards you for each visit or some would reward you only if that visitor made a purchase.

There are people out there who are making a living from their home doing affiliate marketing. This is not a very difficult task to get into but dont expect to make tons of money from affiliate marketing right away. It takes time and commitment to build a website that will attract visitors.

It is best to first think about what your interests are or products you like so you can narrow down your affiliate marketing topic/product.

There are a lot of affiliate marketing companies you can join and one of the biggest players in this arean is Commission Junction. Do a search on the words affiliate marketing and you will find a lot of info on this topic.