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Affiliate marketing has become the new work at home craze. Affiliate marketing consist of marketing the products of another company in order to collect a commission for your referral. You can do this several ways. By either building a website focused around a single type of product or several products and promotes the products of other companies, or if you are not a web savvy person, you can promote products through owning your own blog, through sources, such as WordPress.
I just attended the Affiliate Summit East in Boston, this past week. I was really surprised to see exactly how many people there were, that were actually doing affiliate marketing as a full time job. There are so many “brand name” merchants, who are also using affiliate marketing to promote their products. Some of the merchants using affiliate marketing include; PetSmart, singlesnet, Office Depot, PlayboyStore.com and many others.
The way you become an affiliate for these companies, is to sign up for their affiliate program direct from their site, or you can sign up with one or all of the many affiliate networks, like Commission Junction. Signing up with an affiliate network allows you apply for and monitor more affiliate programs, through a single source.
Affiliate marketing is newest favorite marketing avenue and I believe that it will be for some time to come. Companies will always market their business and will always look for the latest, greatest way to do it.