affiliates

Try talking to your friends and people at work. You'll find that most of them have never even heard of an affiliate program.

So congratulations on arriving at this page.. it means you are one of the people in the know.

By the way, if you find yourself having to explain what affiliate marketing is I usually say it's a bit like working as a commission only salesman,
but on the Internet.

This seems to satisfy most people. They understand it.

I used to ask them if they'd heard of Amazon, most people have, and go on to explain that if you put a link to one of their books from your own website, and someone buys that book you get a commission. An affiliate commission.

But explaining being an affiliate is the same as working on a commission only basis is far simpler.