What is Affiliate Marketing ?
What is Affiliate Marketing ?
- Affiliate marketing is when you promote other companies’ products. When someone buys through your affiliate link, you get a commission.
- As an affiliate, you’re a salesperson for the company. You help to make a Sale, the company rewards you.
- The best thing about affiliate marketing is that you can do it at scale. A typical salesperson only sells products from one company.
- As an affiliate marketer, you can promote products from many different companies and earn commissions from all of them.
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How does Affiliate Marketing Work ?
- When someone clicks that link, a small file called a cookie gets stored on their device.
- An affiliate cookie does two things:
- It helps the merchant attribute the sale back to the right person;
- It (usually) holds an expiration date, so you get paid even if the buyer delays their purchase.
- Example
- Imagine that a reader visits your post about the best winter jackets. They click on one of your affiliate links, leading them to a product on Amazon. But they realized they have to pick up their daughter from school.
- So, they leave their house, pick up their daughter, have dinner, and then finally go back to Amazon where they find the product again.
- Since they’re already shopping on Amazon, they decide to purchase some ski gear too.
- Here’s the good news. Earlier, they clicked on your affiliate link and a cookie was stored on their device.
- Because Amazon has a 24-hour cookie duration, you get compensated for both the winter jacket and ski gear-even though you didn’t promote the latter.