You may be familiar with affiliate marketing, because it is where you get paid to sell someone else's products. Let's take a look at how to really earn money as an affiliate using the Internet today.
There are many different ways you are going to get paid as an affiliate marketer. This often depends on the merchant themselves. They all do it differently according to their merchant agreement.
Some merchants like to pay by check on a monthly basis. Others will pay two times a month by check, which is how Clickbank.com does it.
Because of convenience many merchants today use PayPal to process payments and pay affiliate commissions with. This is nice because you can receive your payments quick and you do not have to wait for your check to arrive in the mail.
Direct deposit is popular today and is one way that Google themselves gets money quickly into the hands of their affiliates.
This is a little bit about how you get paid as an affiliate. To earn the money as an affiliate you receive a commission every time you make a sale.
This is a key point to understand because if nothing is ever sold you will never make any money no matter how hard you work. You are not an employee of the company and you are not paid an hourly rate to work for them.
You are a independent business person who operate your own affiliate business. The products you sell are provided by the merchant, and your website and all shipping and money collected is handled by them as well.
Your single, and most important job, is to drive traffic to your website. Then you must convert some of that traffic into a sale. Again, for every sale you make, you earn a commission.
And for every commission that you earn you are paid according to the affiliate program that the merchant offers you. Therefore it is important that you make as many sales as possible. This might also include creating more and more affiliate websites and selling different products on them.
We have just summed up how to really earn money as an affiliate and also how you will get paid. The work part is up to you!
