Have you ever noticed that when you visit on an established website you find various links got pop up during the visit. This is how an affiliate persuades potential customers or users to enhance the sale or ranking of ABC Company. Affiliate marketing is basically a strategy of online marketing that helps a company to expand its business by working for mutual benefits. Affiliate marketing Network involves a merchant (can be referred as a brand, advertiser or a seller), an affiliate himself (can be called publisher) and a customer. Difference between internet marketers and affiliate marketers lies in the fact that in affiliate marketing, the promoted company pays to affiliate only when the desired outcome got attained which may consists of signing up for the newsletter, purchase by a customer or filling up of a form. And customer is the focal point that is to be targeted during entire process. And for every targeted customer, affiliate gets commission. This is such a way how the affiliate marketing websites design a wide plan that covers many people around the world. More interestingly, one can involve into affiliate marketing with multiple possible conditions like:

• If home is the place from where you are working
• You are already in a demanding job but you want to earn some extra money
• If you are looking for a part time business etc.

But it is essential to have some ins and outs about affiliate marketing before getting into it

with a desire of having automatic revenue. And for a better idea take the help of affiliate marketing tools such as content and link building, emails, pay per click and blog with affiliate marketing software. In short it can be said that it is based on cost per lead or cost per sale and is considered as one of the best successful techniques of online marketing because of assurance of payment it offers on delivery of results.