Affiliate programs are actually the best way to make money online if you are strapped for cash and are willing to work hard to establish a business with a low or no upfront cost. Affiliate programs can be seen as a commission model based on pay per sale or pay per action. There are 10,000s of companies that can pay you if you are willing to drive traffic to the merchant’s page and generate sales. Your sales are counted only when you drive traffic through your special link which is known as an affiliate link.
Choosing affiliate programs if probably the most important thing that one has to do online. Actually, choosing products to fit into people’s needs is like trying to shrink your foot so that you can get it to fit in a boot! So, it is the other way around that works the best i.e. finding people who have a problem and finding a product that can cater to their needs.
After finding a product to promote, what one needs to do is rive traffic through their special links or affiliate links. There are many free and paid methods to drive traffic. Prominent free ones are-
1. Article Marketing.
2. Blogging.
3. Social Media Marketing
Prominent paid methods to generate traffic are-
1. Pay per click through search engines.
2. Pay per impression or pay per view or media buying.
Generally people begin using the free methods and then later expand the business by investing the money earned through their business. This is amongst the best models that can be applied.
