How To Become A Wealthy Affiliate

If you are new to internet marketing you are probably wondering, just what is an affiliate and where do I fit into this.

There are hundreds of merchants who are selling ebooks (which are called digital products) online. When someone buys one of their ebooks, they can simply be downloaded straight onto the customer's computer. There is no physical product and therefore once the merchant has produced the ebook he has no other expenses, so his profits are extremely high. It is therefore in his best interest to sell as many of his products as possible and this is where the affiliate comes into play. An affiliate is someone who markets the merchant's ebooks online and for every sale he makes, he receives a commission of anywhere between 50% to 80%.

Of course an affiliate can also sell physical products for merchants but the percentage is usually much lower, but on the other hand physical products (i.e. electrical goods etc) are usually more expensive to buy so therefore the actual amount in commission is relatively high.

Digital products are normally easier to start off with. When you are first starting out as an affiliate the first thing you need to do is to find a product to promote. To find a product to promote you should look at some of the Affiliate Marketing Networks. These networks are composed of 1000's companies that host their affiliate program through the network. One of the most popular Affiliate Marketing Networks is called Clickbank. There you will find 1000's of digital products that you can promote.

When you become a Member of Wealthy Affiliate University you will be shown all the tricks and techniques of how to chose a best selling produce to promote and how to find hot keywords to use for your promotions so you get ranked high in the search engines.

Another great thing about becoming a member of Wealthy Affiliate University is that you will be given all the tools to easily build your own website as well as free web hosting. Just think how cool that will be to have your own website! Next week I will be talking in more detail about website building with Wealthy Affiliate University.

Until then you can read about Wealthy Affiliate Membership here.

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