According to The World’s Glossary of Internet Terms, “Affiliate Marketer is

defined as: “A business relationship with a merchant or other service provider

who allows you to link to that business. When a visitor clicks on the link at

your site and subsequently makes a purchase from the merchant, you receive a

commission based on the amount of the sale, a referral fee or a pay-for-click

fee.”

This is a simple, straight-forward agreement between a merchant and an affiliate.

Budding affiliate marketers run into a problem when they try to reverse the

success process. Instead of starting at the beginning, they try to start at the

end.

Making money is the end of the process. The beginning of the process is education

and there are several steps in between. Too many people, who are just getting

started in affiliate marketing, fail to take the steps necessary to get to the

end of the process and actually make money.

Step #1: Educate yourself. This is the key, opening the door of opportunity. It's

also the common thread connecting successful affiliate marketers. Education lays

the foundation - the building blocks to success. Start by gathering the best

information you can find about affiliate marketing and absorbing it.

Step #2: Turn that information into usable knowledge. Even the best information

remains kind of worthless, however, until after you discover how to use it - how

to make it serve your purpose.

Step #3: Start applying the knowledge ... take action ...start building your

affiliate business. Will you make mistakes, even though you've invested all that

time educating yourself? Yes, you most likely will make mistakes.

Step #4: Test and tweak, test and tweak. This one never ends. And it's often the

dividing line between succeeding and failing. Attention to small details often

returns big rewards.

Following these steps will define you as a successful affiliate marketer.

Randy :)

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