NEWBIE: WHAT IS AFFILIATE PROGRAM?

What is affiliate program? This is my first question when I try to find out this term. By coincidence I read weekly tabloid, it is about daily woman activity. My eyes stuck on news said a home working mum could get income from internet by doing online business. It was mentioned there also about affiliate program, whether we could sell other’s stuff then we get commission of sale made by us.
Yes affiliate program or also known as affiliate marketing is online program of business. In a regular business there is marketing position, and usually the marketing position will get bonus or incentive for sale they made to success.
That way also applied in online business. The different is you do not have to be companies’ staff or worker but you work independently and you could do it all over the world. In the internet there are many merchants who are ready to receive as many affiliates as possible as long the affiliates follow their Term of Service (as known as The Regulation the merchant offered to be followed)..............

The question then is how do they know if the sale is made by us? When you register the affiliate of one’s merchant you will be provided with special id of your own and they also provided with links and banners according to your id insert to the link. You could put the link or banner on your site or blog or attached it on e-mails you sent to one you know. Be careful do not do spam e-mail or you will be banned from the merchant affiliate program. Sometimes this regulation they mention on their TOS.
If someone comes to your blog and clicks your affiliate link which drives to merchant site then decide to buy the stuff on merchant site, it will be marked as your sale and you will be given sale commission. The commission amount is said when you registered at merchant’s site. It could be various from 5% until 75%. Hmm don’t you think it is big money?
What I told above is only one type of affiliate program that is mentioned as PAY PER SALE. There are also many types of affiliate program. I will cover and described it one by one on next posting. And also what kind of affiliate program you could follow.