Question:  What is an Affiliate Program?

Answer:  It is basically a "reseller program" that allows entrepreneurs to profit off of the sale of someone else's product or service.

You are allowing other people to resell your product at their website, through their newsletter, to their customer base, or any ethical way they want to market it on the Internet. 

With the right affiliate program software you could profit on the sale of your product thru 1000s of "affiliate members" of yours.

• "In my opinion, developing an Associate Program for your own product or service is one of the most powerful ways there is to market online today!" Corey Rudl Internet Marketing Center

The whole point behind setting up an Associate Program is to make it really easy for the associate to join and to bring you qualified visitors.  For the associate, the beauty is that there are no orders to fill, no credit cards to charge, no inventory to stock, no returns or shipping or handling problems, no customer service, no questions, no in-person or over the phone selling of the product.

It is all "clean and easy" for them... which is one of the main benefits of joining an Associate Program.

There's lots of software out there right now for Associate Programs.  But like anything, there are some that are good and a lot of software programs that are not worth the box they come in.  You have to really watch this, because you must get quality software. You don't want to set up your whole Associate Program and then constant problems arise causing your Associates to get upset and you losing money!