5. Affiliate Marketing

One of the least understood, yet one of the most profitable
forms of Internet marketing is affíliate marketing. An online
marketer can join any affíliate program and promote its
products or services on the Internet. You market the products,
find customers for the company and receive a commission for
each sale you make from your marketing efforts. These commissions
can run anywhere from 2% to over 75%. One affíliate click can
earn you anywhere from a few cents to several hundred dollars.

Major third party affíliate programs or companies such as
Commission Junction, Clickbank, LinkShare, Amazon, Shareasale...
act as a brokerage or go-between, representing thousands of
Top Brand companies such as Sony, Apple, Dell... to online
affíliate marketers. Marketers can join a program such as
Commission Junction or LinkShare and be able to promote and
market hundred of top quality products or services online.
They can consolidate their affíliate marketing through these
third party programs.