How Affiliates Make Quick Cash

Thanks to the technological revolution if people need a second income they don't always have to go out and get another job. The Internet provides the opportunity to make money from home. The most successful method of making money on line is through affiliate marketing. Here are two methods that affiliate marketers use to make money.

1) Sales - This method requires the affiliate to drive web traffic to a sellers website. The affiliate does not receive a commission until someone purchases a product through their affiliate link. Although you will see a greater commission from this method, the number of commissions will be less than the second method.

2) Leads - When an affiliate leads a person to a website and the person enters their information, either in the form of an email address or a phone number, the affiliate receives a commission. This form of affiliate marketing will receive a greater number of commissions because people are more willing to give away their email address then their credit card numbers. However the amount per commission will be far less then the first method.

Either method will produce results. When implemented correctly an affiliate can receive hundreds or thousands of dollars every month by promoting products either through sales or leads. You've seen commercials on tv promising thousands of dollars a month with virtually no effort from you. All of those commercials are wrong.

When you become an affiliate marketer if you don't take action you wont see profits. This is one of the major reasons why hundreds of affiliate marketers fail every year. Without action affiliate marketing will not yield any results. However, for those affiliate marketers who do take action, hundreds or even thousands of dollars can be made.

by Jared Smith