What is meant by affiliate marketing?

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Affiliate marketing is when you get paid a commission for promoting someone else product or service, in the offline world they are called sales representatives.

Affiliates are a risk free marketing tool as they are only paid if they produce sales. Affiliate programmes need to be marketed to obtain the best results. Affiliates will usually have their own web site and list your products or services on their site. When a customer visits their site and clicks on one of their links to your site, if they then go on to purchase something from data entry services site you will pay them a commission at a rate that you have preset.