Affiliate Marketing is clever Internet marketing that companies use to promote their web businesses. They use affiliates, who are rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer they personally provide, to promote their business.

An affiliate is a marketing partner who promotes your products or services for a commission.

In most cases affiliate marketing is a “pay for performance model�, meaning that the merchant does not incur a marketing expense unless results are realized, excluding the initial setup and development of the program.

Affiliate marketing widens the scope of your Internet presence by encouraging other websites to become advocates for your services, increasing your online exposure and improving the efficiency of your advertising spend. Affiliate marketing is becoming very popular to promote products and services, and when the system works it can be beneficial to both the affiliate and the merchant.