How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

Affiliate marketing is actually pretty simple, at least in concept.

Various companies allow you to earn commissions by referring people to their website. When these people arrive at the sales page, they are either identified with a "cookie", a marker placed on their computer which identifies them as your customer, or, the website itself is, in various ways, identified as being yours and any purchase made is assigned to you.

To become a money making affiliate, you not only need to get plenty of interested visitors but to also get referrals fast from various sources.

Commissions can be paid in many ways and at various intervals. However, most are either paid monthly, weekly, or bi-weekly. Payment of money you earn online as an affiliate is generally either by check or through a payment processor such as PayPal.

Good affiliate programs can be found at ClickBank, Commission Junction, and many other sites which serve as affiliate program managers although many companies manage their own affiliate marketing program.

While there is generally no cost to you to join an affiliate program, and the company generally furnishes a fairly good sales website, all marketing costs are yours. Getting started with a new affiliate program, especially if YOU don't know what YOU ARE DOING, can be expensive.

It is at this point that many give up simply because they are spinning their wheels with no income to show for their efforts, and no support from the company whose products they are trying to sell.

So, having said that, let me ask you, "Have you ever seen, or heard about, the movie, 'Pay it Forward'?"

Of all the ways to earn online, one of the best I have found, especially for beginners, is the one offered at www.trafficwave.net.

When it comes to finding a good product to sell online, unless you have your own program, one of the best things you can do is offer a product or service which will be of value to others trying to make money online. Traffic Wave not only provides a great autoresponder, which every serious Internet marketer should be using, but also has an affiliate program which allows you to make money by using the autoresponder for your own marketing AND make money by referring others to the Traffic Wave service.

Partnering with Traffic Wave is not only one of the best ways to earn online, but also allows the creation of residual income online, and residual income is the secret to becoming an affiliate millionaire.

You see, with most affiliate programs you only earn commissions with the initial sale. Also, many affiliate marketing products are one-time sales.

With Traffic Wave, your customers pay a monthly fee for the services they are using, and you get a commission every time.

So, having said all that, let me help you start on the road to success. You can sign up for the Traffic Wave affiliate program by one of the links on this page, and I will pay your way into the program, or, just go to the website and learn more about how all this works.