Think Affiliate – Affiliate Marketing Introduction

Affiliate Marketing is an online marketing method of providing website owners with an incentive to promote specific products and merchants by means of remuneration. At its most basic, you get paid a commission for each potential customer you forward to an advertiser who then goes on to make a purchase. The commission amount varies between merchants and not all affiliates are even on the same commission level. Some merchants have their own affiliate programs, whilst others sign up to affiliate networks which add an extra layer into the process. Affiliate networks charge quite large fees to merchants, but in return affiliates get added levels of security that tracking is fair and can be relied upon and merchants get access to a wide variety of tools.
The purpose of this site is to provide you with information about how to start out in affiliate marketing and how you can turn this into a good revenue stream and then a full time job.