Everything a beginner need to know about Affiliate Marketing

Understanding affiliate marketing from top to bottom, from left to right is a MUST in doing online business. (Or if you just want to create some profit in the cyberspace, affiliate marketing is the way to go)

Before fighting your war, you should sharpen your sword!! Let's put in your due diligence to examine some of the definitions for Affiliate Marketing in cyberspace:

**This is a system of revenue sharing between one site (the affiliate merchant) which features an ad or content designed to drive traffic to another site (the advertiser). The affiliate will receive a fee based on the amount of traffic generated.
Defined by internetworld365.com

**A system of advertising in which site A agrees to feature buttons from site B, and site A gets a percentage of any sales generated for site B. It can also be applied to situations in which an advertiser may be looking for marketing information, rather than a cash sale. Popular among startups with very small marketing budgets.
Defined by expedite-email-marketing.com

**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.
Defined by showtheworld.com

If you are familiar with offline marketing models, in fact, affiliate marketing share the very same nature as Network Marketing or MultiLevel Marketing (Through sharing a good service or product with people, you are compensated with commission). Of course, usually affiliate marketing tends to have less layer commission payout than offline Network Marketing or MLM. Affiliate Marketing usually pay until first or second layer only.

Why should we start our online business or create our profit from Affiliate Marketing?

Yes, this is a million dollar question. There are tons of reasons. Look, now I want to give you the TOP 5 reasons.

1. You DON