What The Heck Is Affiliate Marketing Anyway?

Affiliate marketing is all about getting paid while you sit at the kitchen table wearing flip flops and a comfy robe or hang out in some fun place with umbrella drinks. Affiliate marketing is passive income. Affiliate marketing is getting paid when your website visitors follow a link or banner ad to buy someone else’s product or service. Sound interesting? Yeah – that’s what we thought too.

So here’s the skinny:  You set up a website or blog with information about and a link to someone else’s product or service.  In a variety of ways that we “extreme newbies” are learning, you market your site to attract customers. If you doing things right – after learning the ropes – visitors will click on your links and buy what’s being sold.  Then the commission, which can be as high as 75% gets deposited to your account through an affiliate arrangement.  links to purchase, you get paid a commission.

The world of affiliate marketing is filled with hopeful entrepreneurs – like us – waiting for the really big bucks to start rolling in. So how do you get started if this way of making money online intrigues you? Well, frankly, that’s what we’re figuring out. And as we looked around for information and training we found that many, not all but many of the people having success as affiliate marketers around the world are 20-30 somethings. People who grew up with technology and pick up Internet marketing skills with ease. Well that’s just not us.

As extreme newbies, we want some great training and, yes confess – some “hand-holding” as we learn:

• What sites will pay you to market their product?
• Which sites pay the highest commissions?
• Which topics are of the most interest to online consumers?
• Which products are the most popular?
• How to pick a niche or a micro-niche?
• What keywords to us (or yes you could just ask “what’s a keyword” and we won’t laugh)?
• How do you get sales copy?
• How do you get traffic to your site?
• How do you build a site?
• How do you know what to do first to get started?
• How do you stay on track?
• And lot’s more.

So on our journey, we’re looking for the most user-friendly training and the best tools to help us and other extreme newbies get started in affiliate marketing. This website contains our discoveries, our lessons, our ups and downs as we screech around what seems, at least at this point to be a pretty steep learning curve.