Affiliate Marketing:

Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

The concept of Affiliate marketing is similar to online marketing, where one can use other website to drive traffic, which paves way for advertisers to overlook the products in the sites. Though affiliate marketing carries lower profile, Still it plays a significant role in e-retailers marketing strategies. Affiliate marketing business is the business where people can work even from home.

Affiliate marketing often uses regular advertising methods, including organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and some sense display advertising et., In spite of knowing advantages of affiliate marketing, many of them hesitate to begin Affiliate marketing business due their lack of knowledge in Affiliate marketing.

Steps to create affiliate sites:-

• Try to choose Profitable Market, that you have interest in it or some expert domain knowledge.

• Research on that market potential by going to some overture site like http://overture.inventory.com and other yahoo sites, get details about counts of the people searching on a related keyword.

• Choose profitable affiliate product from some marketplace site like clickbank.com, and browse for best program to promote the products.

• Program should have well written sales page, with popular and best selling charts.

• After selecting good program, sign up the click bank site to get the hoplink to choose the program.

• Cerate a simple opt page, where list of subscriber’s name and email to market a affiliate product, and point all the subscribers to hoplink.

• Use an autoresponder, where a series of "sales-pitching" emails has been written to convince the prospects over a time..

• After setting up of all autoresponder emails, last task is to drive traffic to your website, which is the most difficult task to be done.

Another way to start affiliate marketing is by building a general website, where you can submit some blogs, post your thoughts and ideas. If everything goes well, and viewers who reads it, will develop trust on you and listen to everything what you say, this can have Strategic advantage to trust the promoted affiliate products that you market. Of course, this will be very powerful way to market.