Affiliate marketing is getting bigger and bigger each and every day. So what is it? Affiliate marketing is basically advertising another person's product. So why would you market someone else's product? Well owner's of products pay affiliates a percentage of each sale that the affiliate makes them.

For example, one of the products I am an affiliate of is the rich jerk. The rich jerk is an informational product that explains how to make money online through various different methods. Each time I sell this product, I get 75% of each sale. The product costs about $49, so I make about $34 each time I sell the the rich jerk's informational product.

So basically I am making money without having to create my own product or deal with any unsatisfied customers! It is a great deal for both sides. The owner of the product makes money basically doing nothing and I make money without having to deal with any of the stuff that goes along with having my own product.

So how do you know that you are getting credit? There is special tracking code in a link that you are provided that tracks every time you make a sale.

There also companies that act as middlemen between product owners and affiliates. Two of the more popular ones are clickbank and commission junction.

Affiliate marketing is a booming new business and people are making millions of dollars a year when they don't even have their own product.