Affiliate marketing is a type of online marketing method. In which you tell people about the product in different ways. When a person buys that product by clicking on your affiliate link, then you get some percent commission.

An affiliate marketer is called an Affiliate, Partner, or Publisher. The best thing about this business is that you are completely independent, you do not work for any one company. You can promote different product or service at once and get commission from all.

If you start Affiliate Marketing, then what are the benefits you will get, let's know about it:

 1. Absolutely free or can be started with very little cost Most of the affiliate programs are free to join i.e. you do not need to make any kind of payment. You can choose products or services according to your niche or convenience among thousands by simply creating a free account. Yes, if you want to do affiliate marketing by creating a website, then you will have to invest some money on domain and hosting.

 2. Low Risk Excellent Returns
If you talk about the risk in this business, then it is very less, if you are not successful then you will suffer only as much as you have invested in marketing or website. But if we talk about ROI (Return of Investment), then very big returns can be found in affiliate marketing.

3. A Best Passive Income Source This is the biggest advantage of affiliate marketing. With this you can generate excellent passive income. If you create an affiliate marketing website or blog, then you can sometimes get sales from there, work actively or not.

 4. You are free to choose the product/company You are free to decide which product or service you want to promote. You choose the product according to your audience. There is no pressure on you from any affiliate program.

5. No qualification or experience required
No qualification is required to start affiliate marketing business. It has nothing to do with how much you have studied, how much experience you have. A brand new person can also enter this business, learn and earn money. 

6. There are many ways to work The most popular and best way is to do affiliate marketing by creating a blog or website. But this is not the only way. You can promote the product in different ways such as: by making Youtube videos, posting on social media, through email marketing.

7. No need to create marketing material yourself Most affiliate programs provide you with materials for promotion like banners, images etc. You do not need to design promotion material. 

How does Affiliate Marketing work?

When you join an affiliate program, you get a unique link called an affiliate link.

When you share this link with people through your website, blog or social media and if someone buys the product by clicking on that link then a sale count is done. For every sale you get some money. There are three types of people involved in this whole process of affiliate marketing:

Seller or Product Maker: The person or company who wants to sell his product is called Seller or Merchant. It can be a company making a product or providing a service or even an online store like Amazon. 

Affiliate Marketer: The person who promotes the product is called Affiliate Marketer, Affiliate or Publisher. 

Consumer: A person who buys goods through the link of an affiliate marketer is called a consumer. 

When the customer buys the product, the profit earned is divided between the seller and the affiliate.

How to start Affiliate Marketing?

 You have got the basic information about how this business works. So let us now know step-by-step how to start affiliate marketing business:

Step 1 - Choose your Platform To do this business
you have to select one or the other online platform where you can gather audience and share content with them. The oldest and most effective way to do affiliate marketing is to promote the product by creating a blog or website. But it is not necessary that you just have to make a website. You can use any platform to do this work like:
1. Blog / Website
2. YouTube Channel 
3. Instagram 
4. Telegram 
5. Email 
6. Facebook Group etc.

Step 2 – Select Niche and Create Content After choosing the platform
you will have to share content, such as blog posts, images, videos etc. on it. For this you have to select any one niche. Niche means category i.e. a topic about which you want to create content. You should choose a topic that people like, a solution to a problem or have knowledge of any work.

Niche can be of many types, for example: 
photography
Entertainment 
Tutorials 
computer 
gaming 
home decoration 
Finance Gardening etc.

While selecting a niche, do not think only about your interest, you have to keep in mind how beneficial it is to do affiliate marketing on that niche. For this, you should take information about affiliate programs related to that topic in advance. 

Step 3 – Join Affiliate Program After Niche selection
you have to give information about a product in your content and share its affiliate link. You have to join Affiliate program to find the product. On the Internet, you will find the websites of many affiliate networks, on which create your account. 
Some of the famous affiliate networks are as follows:
Amazon Associates
 Cuelinks
 Commission Junction 
vCommission
 Flipkart Affiliate etc. 
According to Niche, after choosing the right product / service for promotion, start sharing the information related to it with the people. Keep in mind, do not recommend a product just to earn money, only promote such a product which is of use to your audience. If possible, try using that product or service yourself first.

Step 4 - Share Affiliate Link 
Now you have to share the affiliate link of the selected product inside your content. You can put the link in your post. You can also share that affiliate link through social media platforms like whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook etc.

Step 5- Get the traffic 
If you want to increase income then you will have to get more traffic on your chosen platform so that people can buy more things. 

Thats all about affiliating marketing.  You can start if you think it suits you and start earning.