Well, this post is titled Affiliate Marketing for Dummies because I’m going to explain exactly what affiliate marketing is and help you understand everything about it in easy to understand lingo. After reading, you won’t be confused about affiliate marketing, and you’ll understand how to make money with it.

In a nutshell, affiliate marketing involves an affiliate who markets someone else’s product or service. So, if you were to market a product or service that someone else has created, you would be considered an affiliate.

But why would you be called an affiliate? The definition of the term affiliate is this according to Merriam-Webster: “To connect or associate oneself.” As an affiliate, you’re connecting or associating yourself with the product owner and the product itself. You’re marketing the product on behalf of the product owner. Hence, you’re an affiliate marketer.

So, what benefit do you have as an affiliate marketer?

In affiliate marketing, whenever you market a product or service and make a sale, a percentage of that sale goes to the product owner, and the rest goes to you as you’re the one that referred that customer to the product.

This benefits you as you have the opportunity to earn money by promoting other people’s products rather than creating your own. Another benefit is that most of the time the products will already be established and in good standing.

The amount you can make per sale will depend on the percentage that’s set by the product owner. It can sometimes be up to 50%, though. As you can see, affiliate marketing is a lucrative business for all the reasons I just mentioned.

I hope you now have a clear understand of what affiliate marketing is after reading Affiliate Marketing for Dummies.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com