Helpful Steps

Keep Track of Your Progress

• Save the useful sites in a favorite folder in your toolbar

• Write down what you have learned in a binder or scribbler and highlight the important information

• Screenshots on your cell phone

Traffic

(The number of visitors that visit your platform or website)

• Direct traffic comes from bookmarks or your URL

• Organic search traffic is unpaid search engine results

• Referral traffic comes from links on other websites

• Social traffic comes from links on social media (both free and paid)

• Email traffic comes from links in an email

• Paid traffic comes from paid search ads

How do Affiliates get paid?

(Affiliates earn commissions by promoting affiliate products)

• Open an account with PayPal or Stripe to receive your earning

Pay-per-click (PPC)

• The affiliate is paid when they send traffic to the marketing business website

• Earning money even when the product does not sell

Pay-per-lead (PPL)

• The affiliate is paid for every lead that is converted such as signing up  to an email list or for a trial, or buying a product

Pay-per-sale (PPS)

• Affiliate is paid only if a purchase is made