Chapter 3: The Top Affiliate Networks
The best way to describe affiliate marketing would be to use an analogy. Let
us say you are the president of your university and every single student in
that university listens to your voice. Since you are the president of this
university, a majority of the people in that university follows your advice and
recommendations. When suddenly a professor of the university offers you
sell his textbook, and in return, you get a commission or a percentage of the
textbook sale by promoting the professor's book to your audience or
following.
So, in essence, this would be an example of affiliate marketing. Simply what
you have to do to get sales would be first to create a big following and then
promote a product to that audience. Simple enough, right? Well, there are
some tricks involved in this method, to become successful in affiliate
marketing. Now there are a lot of ways you can start to market a product to
make a commission; we will be talking about how to do so by using the best
methods for you to start affiliate marketing.
Now, the methods which will help you to start making money with the
affiliate market will be YouTube, blogging, Instagram/Facebook page. Now,
these three are the best ways to get started with your affiliate marketing
business. There are some pros and cons to each of these tools; you might
have to try out all three methods before you can see which one works for you
and which one doesn't. Now without further ado, let's begin with YouTube.
