How-to earn as a Marketing Affiliate
In order to become an on-line affiliate to a company, you will first have to find a suitable company to sign up to. The search options offer a wide list of affiliate programs.Read through each of the program policies that you may be interested in, noting down their advertising, bidding styles and payment methods. Research these sites for more information at Blogs and Forums using the Search tools on the web.
Before signing up to an affiliate program ensure you have a valid email address. It would be advisable to open an email account exclusively for affiliate programs, or open separate folders for affiliate programs in your already existing email accounts. Your email address is your pathway for affiliate account confirmation and affiliate update notifications. Once you have selected your affiliate program and have decided on your email address, sign up to the affiliate program of your choice. Follow the instructions. Make sure that you do not give in a false name / pseudoname / someone else's name. You might not end up earning what is finally due to you. Submit details like W8 / W9 forms / SSN / Tax id information as requested by the sites. Enter a valid physical address, as some affiliates are paid by check as against PayPal, AlertPay, DD, Wire Transfer, etc. Enter a valid telephone number with country / area codes as this might be required to obtain a confirmation PIN sent to the contact from the Affiliate Hosting Company. Once you have signed up as an Affiliate to a company, you should browse through the many sales propositions that Merchants/Advertisers offer. Some will already have prepared links including your "Affiliate Id", while you may have to make a request to be a Publisher for some others. Understand the regulations, advertising policies and bidding limits that the Merchant outlines. For some Merchants, you may use their home page links as redirects, while for some others you will be required to sub-link them. Follow the guidelines specified by each. Once you have been accepted as an Affiliate by a particular Merchant, you will have to check your Text, Video and Banner links to ensure that your Affiliate Id is included in the text links and HTML codes. If you are new to affiliate marketing, you will have to research the net on various ways you may use these links to generate sales in your account. Once you have identified your links and have double checked for your Affiliate details in them, you will be required to Publish your links either through Google Adwords, Yahoo Marketing Services, Blogs, Forums and on various social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. In order to make the best of your position as an Affiliate, make sure to regularly update your information on What's New and What Hot at the Program. Generally the Program Management will post time to time updates on high selling items, or Agreement Terms that may be changing/changed. Daily or Weekly feeds may also be available on the Newest Merchants that have joined the Programs. Ensure that your account details keep abreast with your sales. In case you do not see your earnings recorded in your accounts page, you will be required to notify your Program Manager. The many reasons could be that your tracking link does not reflect back to your account, or that the system has a bug / glitch that does not capture and record your sales. Reporting on such issues may be done only if you are absolutely sure that you are generating sales. _________________________________________ For a detailed and more precise description, view the Original Posting at How to Earn as a Marketing Affiliate
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