What Is An Affiliate?

what is an affiliate

There are a whole bunch of question related to "what is an affiliate?". So we will hopefully go through most of them on this page.

Starting with the above question.

An affiliate is someone who sells something on behalf of a vendor and gets a percentage of that sale- usually called a commission.

How you promote the product is usually through an affiliate link that has your ID encoded into it (so the company knows who should get the commission)

Some things to note:

What is an affiliate 11 guiding points

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  • Commissions can be anything from 99c to thousands of dollars
  • Affiliates can sell anything that they want as long as there is an affiliate program attached to it
  • Vendors, in most cases, will approve or decline your participation
  • Not all vendors are the same
  • In some cases you can not sell in certain places or use certain names- depending upon the vendor rules
  • You can get paid per sale, per sign up, per address. The "what" you sell can be quite different
  • You might not get paid straight away. In many cases your commission will be held back for a certain amount of time (just in case of refunds)
  • You might get paid weekly, monthly, depending on how the vendor has set up their system
  • Not selling straight away is completely normal
  • You will be in competition with other affiliates (if not limited) and even the vendor
  • Online is just a selling medium
  • Cookies (or another tracking medium) can vary a great deal. Some have hours some have multiple months. Understand this and figure out if someone will buy quickly or not through your link

Affiliate FAQ

First off you need to find an affiliate program to start getting an affiliate link. The lowdown on affiliate links can be found here.

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