How Affiliate Marketing Works | Earn Dollars with Affiliate Marketing

Nitin Walthare
What is affiliate marketing
Nowadays, a lot of people try to purchase products online as lots of time it saves and get lots of varieties of that particular product.

The awesome thing about the online purchase is that you place an order and the parcel arrives at your doorstep within two to four days.

Lots of publishers take advantage of that and promote the product of online selling sites and get a huge amount of commission depending upon product category.

Earning money by promoting online selling site products is called affiliate marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is nothing but selling products of e-commerce websites by promoting their products on your social handles and getting a huge commission for selling that product.

A lot of publishers and content creator earns a huge amount of money by affiliate marketing.

Top e-commerce sites that provide affiliate marketing service is Amazon and Flipkart.

Other small e-commerce sites also provide affiliate services.

How to get a commission on Affiliate Programs?

I explain to you that thing by giving a simple example. For example, Ramu has joined an affiliate program and share a link of any product on e-commerce site on their social media handles such as youtube or its website.

If any person visits the Ramu youtube channel or website and clicks on that link and purchases the product, for example, the product is 100 dollars.

Then Ramu gets a commission on that product after the successful delivery of that product.


Let's assume that the commission given by that e-commerce site is 4%, then Ramu receives 4 dollars in its affiliate account.

Ramu gets commission even if a person does not purchase that linked product but purchases another product.

You can share product links on Youtube, blog and social media account such as Facebook.

I personally used the amazon associate program for affiliate marketing, so I will tell you how to register for the amazon associate program.

How to register for amazon's associate program?

Registering for the amazon associate program is so easy. You will need two things either a youtube channel or a blog.

Go to the amazon associate's official website and sign up for the Amazon associate program.

Provide information about your website or youtube channel, fill in your personal information, tax information, select what kind of category belongs to your blog or youtube channel and you are ready to go.

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Your account is approved within some days, after getting the approval you are ready to generate a link to the product and share it on your website or youtube channel.

If someone purchases a product from your link then you get a commission for selling their product.

If you sell kindle devices and ebooks then you will get an advertising fee of about 10%.

For selling consumer electronics and devices excluding data storage devices you get a 4% advertising fee.

For mobile accessories it is 4%, for apparel and shoes it is 9%, for health and personal care product it is 8%, for books it is 8%, for music, movies, video games and software it is 5% and for personal care product it is 8%.

You get the complete list of advertising fees on amazon's associate official website.

What is the Amazon influencer program?

Amazon's influencer program is for influencers on Youtube and Instagram.

Here you have to create a video for promoting the product, here you can make your own storefront on Amazon and list the product.

When your followers click on your link, they are redirected to your Amazon storefront page.

If they purchase the product then you get a commission. Remember it is an extension of the Amazon associate program.

What is the Amazon bounty program?

Amazon bounty is a referral program where you can get Rs 50 referral amounts for each registration through your link.

You have to paste the link and write an article on amazon to your website and refer your user to amazon if the user register for amazon then you get a referral amount.

When you get paid by Amazon associate Program?

Amazon pays advertising fees on a monthly basis, it sends payment 60 days after the end of each month. It sends payment via NEFT or by cheque.

The threshold for NEFT is 1000 INR and for Cheque, it is 2500 INR. You have to give the correct address detail for receiving payment via cheque.

For NEFT you have to fill your bank name, bank account holder name, bank account number, and IFSC code correctly on amazon associate ID payment information.