• Section: Money Guide - Category: Affiliate Programs
• Written by Zack Lim

There are many different affiliate marketing models that are available on the internet and it can be quite confusing if you do not have the right understanding. You will understand from this article on what is the traditional affiliate marketing model.

Affiliate marketing can be simply defined as the sharing of income whenever a sale is being made. The merchant will provides all the sales letter, customer support, affiliate tools etc whereas the affiliates will do their job on promoting the product.

Both parties will benefit from the transaction because the merchants will paid whenever the affiliates make the sale and the affiliates will earn the commissions. The simplest and the fastest model to start your business is to make use of the traditional affiliate marketing model.

It is simply the process of you getting the affilia

te link and driving directly to your affiliate link. The advantage of this model is that if you are able to drive lots of traffic and the sales letter is converting, you will get sales very fast. But you will have to understand that not all affiliates know how to get lots of traffic when they are first starting out.

The major disadvantage of this method is that you will not be fully leveraging on your traffic. If the customer comes to your affiliate link and he did not purchase the product, you will lose the leads forever. If you did not have a opt in page that captures a list, you will be losing many potential customers and sales because you did not have the opportunity to follow up with them.

If you are new to the affiliate marketing business and you would like to keep your feet wet, you can try out this model. But you will have to take note that it is not a long term approach as you will only be building a real business when you are building your own customer list. Whatever you do, just do something to get yourself started and you will get the results.

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