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The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Affiliate Marketing in 2022
In this post, you will learn all about the amazing side hustle known as affiliate marketing!
When I was in college, I was taught that if I knew how to sell, I’d always have a job. Since then I’ve discovered that if I knew how to sell online, I’d never need one.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is simply being an online salesperson for whatever product it is you want to sell and making a commission for your efforts.
Take Amazon, for example. It is one of the biggest e-commerce stores on the web. Amazon has an affiliate program meaning that, once you are accepted, you can sell anything on their site and earn a 10% commission.
Say you buy a new backpack from Amazon that you really love for $80. You love it so much that you do a product review and share the backpack to your Instagram and Facebook pages. In your product review or on your Instagram story, you paste your affiliate link to the backpack. An affiliate link is a link to a product with a unique tracking code that ties the source back to you. When the link is clicked and the product is purchased, you get credit.
