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If you’re a newbie and truly want to earn lots of real money, affiliate marketing is a solid online business to start with. This is the secrets which the internet gurus are not willing to share them publicly. With good affiliate marketing companies, you can create a real wealth and supplemental residual and leverage income stream where you can join most of them for FREE WITH ZERO RISK.

Now what is affiliate marketing? This is a type of performance-based marketing in which the businesses of products developer or promoter rewards the affiliates directly from his/her own purchases or agreed sales commission by promotion or indirectly from prefixed commissions of purchases/sales made by his/her down-line affiliates or leads with their joint marketing efforts using developer’s e-commerce or gateway websites or other means.

Affiliate marketing has the advantages over MLM (Multi Level Marketing) method to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods which include SEO, PPC, e-mail marketing, content marketing, products reviews etc. Among many such companies, Amazon.com launched its more advanced associate program in July 1996 Amazon’s associates could place banner ads or text links on their site directed to the Amazon sales page. When visitors clicked from the associate’s website to Amazon and purchased a product, the associate received a commission.

Affiliate marketing has grown quickly since its inception. The e-commerce websites are fast becoming an integrated part of the overall business development plan and in some cases grow to a bigger business than the existing offline business. According to the study, US affiliate market is set to grow nearly 10% between 2015 and 2020 to an estimated $6.8 billion industry.

Affiliate marketing programs allow people to make real money online, if they get proper training, appropriate marketing methods, leads follow-ups etc. An affiliate marketer earns credits by promoting specific websites for lead generation or products sales through gateway websites or personal websites/blogs in exchange for commissions from the traffic one generates.

Any time a recommendation from an affiliate leads to a sale, the affiliate gets hefty commission off the sales from the comfort of the home. All you need to have a computer and internet connection and a very good affiliate company with a reliable e-commerce sites or gateway sites having sufficient promotional tools, training or other means. If the chosen company sales or promotes most of the in-demand products of popular niches, then it’s great.

There are several advantages of affiliate marketing where you don’t need to invest time and money for product creation or don’t need to create sales pages nor to deal with customer service issues etc. However, you may concern over other issues such as losing your reputation if products delivered were of poor quality or poor customer service.