When Will I Get Paid?
New affiliate marketers are anxious to be paid when they
refer a sale, but you must remember that the product
owner has to wait until the refund period is up. Typically
you will be paid about 45 days after the sale is made,
depending on their accounting system. You can always go
in to the affiliate program and see how many sales you
have made.
I recommend keeping track of your sales so that you know
exactly what's happening. Some systems will notify you
when you have made a sale, and some will even give you
the name of the purchaser. This all depends on how it is set
up and maintained by the product creator.
The Role of Social Media in Affiliate
Marketing
This may be hard to believe, but there was no such thing as
social media when I got started online in 2006. MySpace
was the only site that came close, and it was primarily
inhabited by musicians and teenagers. I did start an
account at MySpace in 2006, but never did much with it.
Facebook was for college students only at that time, and I
had not even heard of it because no one in my circle of