Have you ever thought about joining thousands of others on the Internet and becoming an affiliate for a merchant? Let me tell you exactly what that means!

An affiliate is a person who gets paid to sell other people’s products. Have you ever heard of Amazon.com?
They were one of the first companies to understand the power of using the Internet to sell their products through affiliate marketing. 

They knew that if they had to do all the sales and marketing of their products by themselves, their company would never become as large as if they were to have affiliates representing them. 

They also knew that they couldn’t afford to hire people and pay them by the hour or by salary, so they created an affiliate program to pay people for their efforts.

It works pretty simply in that as an affiliate, whenever you make a sale you earn a commission for selling the product. The affiliate merchant has an affiliate agreement that you sign up for, usually for free, and then you get paid at a predetermined time for your sales. 

This has worked out great because it allowed businesses to create an online presence, and get their products sold without having to hire more employees.
It’s also created an excellent opportunity for you to make extra money by becoming an affiliate for various products.

The primary reason you would become an affiliate is because you do not have to create products of your own, and you can earn a lot of money selling products that have already been created.