Affiliate marketing is a way to make money online by promoting other people’s or company’s products and services and earning a commission from every sale you help make (however, it’s worth pointing out that there are different types of affiliate programs with different ways of paying marketers). Once you sign up for an affiliate program, you’ll get a trackable link that you can use in your content and then once people start to click on that link and preferably, buy the product or service, you’ll start earning a commission. [/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle open_toggle_text_color=”#00afc0″ open_toggle_background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” closed_toggle_text_color=”#5b5b5b” closed_toggle_background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” icon_color=”#ff7900″ use_icon_font_size=”on” icon_font_size=”22px” _builder_version=”4.4.7″ title_text_color=”#5b5b5b” title_font_size=”1.2rem” closed_title_font_size=”1.2rem” body_text_color=”#5b5b5b” body_font_size=”1.1rem” body_line_height=”1.5em” body_ul_text_color=”#5b5b5b” body_ul_font_size=”1rem” body_ul_line_height=”1.6em” hover_enabled=”0″ custom_css_toggle_icon=”content: %22%924c%22!important;||” border_color_all=”rgba(0,175,192,0.29)” title=”How does affiliate marketing work? “]
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Affiliate marketing is a type of performance based marketing where the business rewards the affiliates for bringing business either through view or clicks or purchase by the effort made by the affiliates.
The only potential downside is that Rakuten is a serious player on the affiliate marketing scene, so the approval process can be slow, especially if your site has little or no traffic.