An affiliate marketing program is one strategy for merchants to grow their sales exponentially. By offering a free-to-join affiliate program, the merchant agrees to share % of sales made by his affiliates.

The way this works is simple. Affiliates will be provided with promotional tools such as links, text ads, banners, articles, email ad, etc. By using these tools to promote the merchant’s products, affiliates will send interested visitors to the merchant’s site. Depending on the capacity of conversion of the site, when these visitors become buyers, that generates sales for the affiliates.

So the more targeted traffic is sent to the merchant’s site, the more prospects. The more interested prospects become buyers. This means more sales and the more commissions!

It’s also very easy to become an affiliate. All you have to do is to find a merchant who has an affiliate program, sign up for it and you can start as soon as you’ve been approved!