The lifeblood on any online business is traffic and visibility. To get the most traffic, merchants create affiliate programs, literally a ‘virtual sales team’ to help promote their site and products. Anyone can sign up to be an affiliate to most affiliate programs. You promote their products, they do all the customer service, shipping, and refunds of the product. You promote, and when the merchant makes a sale from a customer that you referred, you make a commission.
The merchant may choose to pay a flat fee or a percentage of the product’s price. Let’s say you’re promoting a $ 149 product, and the merchant pays you a 50% commission.…