Affiliate Marketing Guide: What It Is + Steps to Start
What Is Affiliate Marketing & How Does It Work?
Affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing practice that involves individuals or businesses promoting another company’s products or services. And earning commissions for the results they drive.
Here’s how it works:
Affiliate marketers (publishers or creators) generate content containing referral links provided by the affiliate program or merchant. Meaning they help the program or merchant generate more sales or leads.
The affiliate program or merchant then tracks the leads or sales that come through an affiliate’s unique link. And pay commissions to affiliate marketers based on the agreed-upon terms of the program.Â
The 3 Types of Affiliate Marketing