If you are looking to make money online preferably from the comfort of your home, one of the best method to earn extra money and even to the point of having sustainable income from home is to become and affiliate marketer.

Affiliate marketing is a marketing model wherein advertisers “reward” or pay publishers a percentage of the earning for the product or service they help promote and if there is a sale. Most of the time, publishers receive a certain percent commission for every product or service sold and in some cases a fixed amount. Earning potential in terms of the commission can be as high as 80% of the total product price.

Affiliate marketers or publishers employ various advertising models to promote the product of advertisers. These include putting up links and banners on their respective websites, Pay per click advertising, using videos to promote the product or service, and even posting links and messages in social media sites.

Advertisers employ affiliate marketing as part of their strategies because it is a performance based model thus they only need to pay a commission whenever a product is sold. Publishers or affiliate marketers tend go through this money making model because it does not require their own product but concentrates mainly promoting the product and generating sales.

Just like any form of business, affiliate marketing takes time, testing and some learning on your part to be successful in the field. Do it right and master its techniques and the rewards in terms of monetary value can be enough a source of sustainable income.