The Coronavirus shouldn't depress you. Maybe you're one of millions of Americans currently unemployed. Unemployment has a tendency of bringing a person down mentally because they lack adequate finances. There's good news though. The Internet and affiliate marketing combined with blogging can create a stable and multiple stream of recurring income. Many people today throughout America and the world still don't have a clue what affiliate marketing is.
Affiliate marketing is a process of promoting a merchants products and services on a blog or website in exchange for earning what's called an "affiliate commission." Affiliate commissions are earned from blogs and websites that partner with online advertisers promote relevant products and services alongside the niche content on that particular site. Some affiliate marketers started from the bottom such as homeless, being treated harshly by employers and coworkers when jobs, slandered by family members, and judge by peers. They did the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation by some double slip switching negativity and transforming it into the power of positivity, while using the negativity from people to increase their financial strength. If you're one of millions of Americans currently enduring unemployment or financial suppression because of the coronavirus or whatever, now the time to learn about affiliate marketing and how it can benefit you by working from home as a side hustle.
Shawn Collins is a leading authority in affiliate marketing meetups an online marketing. He's a former Internet marketing manager for Internet.com and got his start back in 1997. With an extreme interest in affiliate marketing, he did the transformation work, and successfully built his business starting from the bottom. He transitioned from affiliate manager to starting his own business known today as AffiliateSummit.com in 2003. The purpose of the online marketing meet ups is to bring advertisers and affiliate marketers together to forge and sustain positive online marketing-working relationships to help one another increase online profit potential through the process known as "affiliate marketing." Regardless Of your age, education or life experience, it's never too late for you to get started in affiliate marketing and build yourself up online to financial freedom.
Video transcript of Shawn Collins video discussing "what affiliate marketing is" from his official YouTube.com channel Affiliate Tip:
"hey I'm Shawn Collins co-founder
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Affiliate Summit and I've got a question
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today from I guess an affiliate I'm not
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sure they say what is the meaning of an
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affiliate and so basically an affiliate
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is somebody who sells products and
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services for other companies online for
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a commission whether it be a percentage
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of a sale or a flat fee and so an
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example is somebody who maybe is a big
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fan of the New York Yankees and they
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create a fan site for the Yankees and
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they there may be some blog posts they
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just recaps of games different things
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they share their pictures and within
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that they also maybe have a link to
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fanatics comm where you can buy it say
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like a Jersey for one of the stars in
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the team or you can buy a ball cap
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different products and things that are
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related to the team some may be
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throwback jerseys from some of the
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legends on there like Jeter or Mickey
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Mantle Joe DiMaggio just a variety of
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things so they they just stop and have
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some kind of themed site that plays into
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like whatever topic they want to cover
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and they just have relevant products and
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services that are available to people to
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buy and so it's really that simple
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it's sort of um dates back to people
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that I guess have over of a certain age
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look like me it's just Commission based
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selling that when I was a kid did be
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mom's going around my neighborhood
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selling Tupperware door-to-door and they
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get a piece of the action for each I
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guess said our piece of Tupperware
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they'd sell and so it's really the same
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thing just pushed online where you're
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just getting you're promoting something
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you're getting a piece of the action for
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it and it's really that simple and there
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there are dumb a few different players
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they are the in that the whole ecosystem
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so there's the affiliate also known as a
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publisher and then they they work with a
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merchant or also sometimes known as an
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advertiser that's a company like
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fanatics calm or Amazon and then also
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there are the affiliate networks and
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they provide the reporting and the
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tracking and things and so you you sign
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up for one of the affiliate networks and
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then you're able to apply to the various
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merchants or advertisers to promote
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their products you get some code from
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them and you put that on your blog or
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your affiliate newsletter
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or whatever it is you're using to
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promote maybe some people they use
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social media some others do paid search
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it's a variety of different ways that
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you can promote affiliate links but
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hopefully that clarifies it for you
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and good luck take care."
Still wondering if affiliate marketing can be profitable for you? Is only one way to find out. Get started now with your affiliate marketing side hustle, make mistakes along the way, learn the value of consistency and content marketing, and keep going the extra mile even when others don't believe in you such as phony family members and your employer or some coworkers.
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