Affiliate Marketing What is And How Does It Work?
By: Abou Slaam Aljoma
Tags: Money Transfers, Affilate Marketing, Make Money, Marketing, Money Making Ideas

So, the customer goes online and searches for watches and they find a great watch that they want to buy, okay? Now, the person who owns the watch is called the product owner, okay? Because they created the watch. Maybe they are Casio or Sony or whatever. And they have an affiliate program that let’s say, John.

John Affiliate signed up with. So, in many affiliate programs, people split the profits 50/50. Okay? So 50% of the money goes here and 50% of the money goes to the affiliate who markets it. Now, this affiliate –John (let’s call him) Put up an ad on Facebook and said, “Hey I have a great watch.

“ The customer bought it. Now, in that case, the customer paid $100 and the product owner makes 50 and the affiliate makes $50 for marketing it. These are the 3 main components of affiliate marketing. The product owner who has an affiliate program, the affiliate who’s selling it, and the customer.

And the 2 ways to make money in the affiliate marketing ecosystem are to have a product and have other affiliates promoted or be the affiliate and make money marketing products. So, let’s look at 2 examples, and then I’m going to get into the seven different affiliate networks and 8 different traffic sources that you can use to start affiliate marketing.

Here I am on a website called recordingnow.com. This is the website of another famous Affiliate/YouTuber called ODI. So, if we look under here, we’ll see the reviews different headphones under his gear reviews, okay? A lot of people before they spend a lot of money on an expensive headphone set, they’ll look at a review of the product.

You know to make sure that other people are saying it’s cool and you know it’s worthwhile. Now, as you’ll see here, he has his affiliate links right here at the bottom. Do you see that? He says to order the beats solo 3 wireless headphones here for the lowest price available. Do not pay retail.

And he has links from amazon’s affiliate program right here. Every person who buys after clicking on this link will end up making about 5% on it. So 5% of $300 is about $15. So, it’s pretty good. Everybody who visits his page. And there could be thousands of people that are searching to buy these headphones.

I think even millions of people by the Beats by Dre. So, you could make a lot of money, 15 times a lot of people. Here’s another example of somebody using affiliate links. So, here’s a famous YouTuber called Peter McKinnon. You see he has 3 million subscribers. You may not have heard of him before.

But 3 million other people have. And a lot of people watch his article. So now, you’ll see right here. He… You know, he has an article that’s been viewed a lot of times. And do you see all of these… He talks about digital photography and article. You, know making an article. He’s very good at it.

Now, you’ll see right here, he has new Lightroom presets pack. His link goes to his affiliate links. So, he will make money every time somebody buys that product, okay? And you can see more stuff here. Once again, you know his camera here, he has Amazon affiliate links to amazon’s affiliate program right here.

He has a lot of affiliate links. That he’s using it to make money. Now, Peter McKinnon is a very influential photographer. I want you to look at the price of some of his products that he’s selling as an affiliate on his site. Now, he does a very good job of making people want to get good into the article.

But keep in mind that 5% of these products are expensive; some of these products are that he gets people to buy. $5,000. Look at this camera. This camera is $5,000. That’s $5,000 right there, baby. That is a lot of money. And if we do the math right here, let’s bring this up right here.