Money Tree 4 Moms

One of the ways  I am able to most successfully make money from home is through a process known as “affiliate marketing.” Affiliate marketing is a sales/advertising strategy in which a vendor rewards an affiliate for each customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Let me try to provide a more concrete example…

If I am an affiliate for Amazon.com, I can earn a commission by sending a customer to the Amazon web site to make a purchase. How would I do that? Let’s say I recently bought a blu-ray player for my family. Prior to buying it, I did a LOT of research, trying to find a model with the features I wanted, for a price I was willing to pay. Consequently, I now am something of a blu-ray expert. So, I write an article for one of the online article sites (EzineArticles.com, SearchWarp.com, GoArticles.com, to name just a few), sharing my newfound knowledge, and add a few affiliate links to the Amazon web site for the blu-ray models I liked best. The affiliate links contain a code that will let Amazon.com know that the customer was sent to their site by me. Then, when the customer makes a purchase from Amazon, I am rewarded with a commission — a percentage of the sale.

That’s a pretty simplistic explanation, as there are many ways to increase the amount of traffic that will use your affiliate links and therefore increase your sales, but at a high level, that’s what affiliate marketing is all about. It can be a very profitable way to make money online, from home, on your own schedule. Many, many affiliate marketers make yearly incomes over six figures, and I’ve met some of them personally. As for me, with my family obligations, I can’t devote the time it would take to make that kind of money, but I do enjoy a steady income from the affiliate marketing work I’ve done.

So, I’m creating a new category on MoneyTree4Moms to talk about affiliate marketing, how it’s contributed to my success, and my recommendations for ways to get started if you are interested in finding out more about this method of earning money from home. I’ll admit that it’s not for everyone, but if you are willing to spend a bit of time learning about it and experimenting a bit, you may find that it’s a very fun and lucrative way to earn an income.