The Internet has been around for a long time now.
It is how most companies promote their products for sale.
People everywhere around the globe use the Internet to research and buy products.
You have the opportunity to cash in on this and make money online too, with affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is low cost and profitable for the savvy marketer.
As an affiliate marketer, its your job to find targeted traffic and direct it through to the product.
Affiliate marketing falls into two main categories.

1. You can join a pay per click (PPC) program that will pay you for every person who visits (clicks) the website of your affiliate partner.
   
2. The most popular affiliate marketing payment system is pay per sale.
   That means that you are only paid for the people you send to your affiliate partner who buy a product from them.
   

In both cases, when you join the affiliate program, you are given a unique identifier which tells the affiliate partner that the click or the purchase originated from you.
Becoming an affiliate marketer is an effective, low cost way for both the seller and the affiliate to create extra income.
By promoting the product successfully, you are rewarded with commissions and you are creating sales from an entirely new audience the product owner was not able to reach.
It's a win-win situation for everyone.
Once you have chosen your product, you will need to consider what separates you from your competitors.
You do have competition, because the product owner wants lots of people to help sell their product.
You must come up with creative ideas on how to market yourself and the product in a way that will make your prospects choose you to make their purchase.