Understanding Affiliate Marketing

For beginner who want to earn extra income quickly, the easiest way is by join affiliate marketing program. Affiliate marketing is an agreement between a merchant and an affiliate marketer. The main focus is promoting merchant's products. Affiliate marketer will get commission if they could do the job successfully.

The most interesting thing is as an affiliate marketer, we don't need to worry about how to make the product, inventory, order processing, manage delivery, refund, administration, management, etc. Before choose what affiliate program that suitable for you, visit internet Affiliate Marketing Program Networks to compare and study different programs. Then choose the program that seem stable, with the longest history of sales and affiliate marketing success. Look into the quality of the products and services. Our goal is to make people to get interested then make decision fill their name, email address, or the application form then buy the product or service. If we are not convinced of the quality of their products and services, how can we influence other people? What makes you thing other people (your site visitors) will be convinced as well?

Here are several types of affiliate marketing program opportunities:
1. Pay Per Sale Affiliate Program (PPS)
The merchant will give affiliate marketer commission based on sales that people buy through affiliate marketer link. Product or service that often marketed this way are selling e-book or software. The commission is quite big. Pay per sale affiliate program represent 80% of affiliate marketing industry.

2. Recurring Affiliate Program
In recurring affiliate program, affiliate merchants will give commission periodically but the commission is not as much as Per Per Sale program. The recurring affiliate program is usually done by monthly subscription service for example web hosting, auto responder, the membership of internet marketing course, etc.

3. Pay Per Lead Affiliate Program
Affiliate marketer will get a flat payment for each prospects (leads) that fill the certain qualifications. The best Pay Per Lead Affiliate program usually come from insurance, home loan, credit card, real estate, and loan application. The benefit can be started from 25 cents for each leads who come to the site to $ 25 or more if the leads fill out the application.

4. Pay Per Click Affiliate Program
Affiliate marketers will get paid when the advertisers on their site is clicked by visitors. The most popular and the biggest Pay Per Click Affiliate program is Google AdSense.

5. Pay Per Search Affiliate Program
Pay Per Search Affiliate program is a program that makes affiliate marketers' sites become search engine such as www.google.com or www.yahoo.com. Affiliate marketer will get revenue when a visitor do the search or find information from the search box on affiliate marketers' sites and then click the link from the search result.

6. Hybrid Program
In hybrid program, the merchants combine several different payment. For examplen10 cents commission when there are visitors click on the advertisements and 15% commission when the sale occurs. Another example the merchants give bonus id we successfully obtain certain target sale.

Now you have known several types of affiliate marketing programs. Which one is suitable for you?