If you don't have an online product, a service or even a website, but still want to earn money online.
Then affiliate marketing is the best method for you.
Imagine not having to take all the trouble to create an online product that guarantee to sell like hotcake, making money online through affiliate marketing is a breeze as all you ever need is an email account and an online payment service account to start with.
Affiliate marketing is basically a program that is set up by companies or individual who are trying to sell their products or services online.
By becoming their affiliate, you will be given the right to promote and sell their products or services online with a percentage of the selling price as commission.
Upon signing up as an affiliate to any company, an affiliate link (which is in the form of a URL) will be assign to you for tracking the sales that you may have made.
You will also have access to your affiliate account through the company website to view your daily or monthly sale and earning reports.
For an example, said I owned a business that sells health care supply online and I have an affiliate program set up on my business website.
If you are interested and signed up as an affiliate, an affiliate link will be issue to you instantly.
Now you can use your affiliate link to promote my company products to online users that are searching for health care products.
Whenever someone made a purchase through your affiliate link, you will be paid a percentage of the sale from the product that is sold.
And this is how easy to earn extra money with affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketers promote their products through lot of different channels.
And content sites or blogs are the most popular method used, as having interesting contents that are related to the products can help drive traffic to the sites.
Then an affiliate advertisement banners that are embedded with the affiliate link, can be place on the site to send the traffic to the affiliate sites.
Other method like email marketing where emails containing reviews of affiliate products are sent to potential buyers with the affiliate link inserted.
And when a reciprocal is interested in the product, they can follow the link provided in the email to the affiliate site to make the purchase.
You can find thousands of affiliate programs online if you are keen on making extra money online as an affiliate marketer, with the well known ones like eBay and Amazon.
So there is no reason why anyone shouldn't take advantage of the internet to grow their own business.