What Is Exactly Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is basically an agreement between two parties: the seller and the marketer. In a nutshell, the seller has something to sell, and the marketer is someone who can make money from the merchant by promoting certain products.

This marketing model is straightforward and low-cost, therefore you’ll find a lot of affiliates in the blogging world. For instance, they will usually make a product review and include their affiliate links in the description and/or the body.

The affiliate will make a commission if he/she is successful at selling the product each time someone press that link

Marketing gurus and bloggers have presented affiliate marketing as a “get rich quick” scheme. Which is literally the million dollars question about it. And to be fair, yes, affiliate marketing can make you earn those big bucks if done correctly.

Nonetheless, just because you can get an affiliate link doesn’t mean you will get rich overnight. It takes much more for a person, at least someone with a modest following, to be successful in affiliate marketing.

The harsh truth is that most won’t see the results they are hoping for. It can sometimes take time, effort, determination, and a lot of hustle. They will be times when it fails miserably and times when it just works.

So will you be able to find success as an affiliate marketer?