What is a Multi-level Money Making Affiliate Program

Google changed the world. Well, at the very least Google changed the internet, how people use the internet, and how people make money out of the internet. If you haven’t heard yet—Google, virtually the most powerful (and surely the most popular) search engine tool on the planet—and other search engines like it have become gold mines for people trying to sell something, anything on the World Wide Web. It’s called affiliate marketing, and used properly, it’s quite lucrative.

Here’s how it works: when someone wants something sold over the internet, he would need to make the most number of people aware of what he’s selling, thus he partners with associates—or more aptly and typically—affiliates to spread the word. The people selling are commonly called merchants or advertisers, while the ones doing the marketing (publishers or salespeople) are called affiliates. When the product sells, the merchant profits, and of course the affiliate gets his share. Then there’s the multi-tiered affiliate marketing, going anywhere from 2 tier affiliate to X tier affiliate marketing.

In the 2 tier affiliate marketing scheme, the original affiliates who refer other affiliates to their merchant’s marketing program still earn commission from the next level of affiliates’ efforts. Simply put, you could perhaps look at it as a cascading scheme (similar in concept to pyramid scams) wherein an affiliate who makes sales would get his share, then the affiliate who referred him to the program, if any, would get a percentage of income as well, aside for the merchant of course.

So imagine if you were an initial affiliate in even just a 2 tier affiliate scheme, even if you don’t sell anything, so long as your referrals sell, you make money. Pretty simple? Well, given all the competition in the world nowadays, it may be a bit harder than it looks. Try looking it up in Google and you will be able to find the list of affiliate program that you can join.