Affiliate marketing is to promote somebody’s products and make money online through the sale commission. An affiliate is someone who does the promotion. Some of these products give as high as 75% commission from each sale.

One common misconception is that the affiliate would try to sell the product. The fact is the affiliate’s task is to make the potential customer interested in the product and bring them to the product sale page. The sale page would do the selling.

The first step to do affiliate marketing is to look for a good product to sell. Most product sellers allow free sign up to be their affiliates. And they also provide ton of resources for the affiliate to promote the products. These resources include html codes, keywords, graphic banners and more.

The affiliate would promote the products by using websites, emails, pay-per-click advertisements or even video. The seller would track the referral through some special code and credit the affiliate if the customer makes a purchase.

Affiliate Marketing is one method to start with no product to make money online. If we do search on the internet, we can easily find many successful internet businesses started as an affiliate.