Earn money by writing a blog. Blogging can be used to promote your affiliate programs. Whenever you are marketing an affiliate product it is a good idea to demonstrate the affiliate product with a video and then at the end of the video direct the customer to the product using your affiliate link.  Video blogging really compels your prospect to listen. You only have a few seconds to grab your visitors attention and video blogging is the key to your success.  Some people also include an optin email box along with the demonstration video in order to collect a customer's email address for future contact before directing the customer to the affiliate product.

Blogging reality is that the affiliate is rewarded for driving traffic to the advertiser in the form of a percentage of the product price. In most cases the affiliate will receive 50% of the products price if the product is a digital product and can be downloaded.  The advertiser only pays the affiliate after the purchase has been made. The advertiser knows who his affiliate is because the affiliate is given an affiliate code or link to place a link on their website. The affiliate sends traffic to the advertiser and when a sale is made receives a portion of the product's price in return. Simply put, it's about paying commissions to people who help you make sales. It's that easy.  A lot of moms are working from home part-time as affliate blogging mommies. It only takes a few hours a week to make money selling affliate products.

Here are the following reasons on why web marketers might become blogging for business affiliates and use internet marketing as a way of gaining income.

1. Low cost
When selling an affiliate product there is income without the cost of creating the product. There are a lot of high traffic free blogging sites that allow you to email hundreds of prospects in your blogging community your affliate message.

2. Inventories not included
The affiliate does not have to worry about collecting payment, fulfilling the download of the product, or processing returns.

3. Unlimited income through leverage
Through the use of  blogging and free ads the affiliate can make a nice income without incurring a lot of cost.

Most people who sell a product also create an affiliate program because it is easier to have many people working around the clock selling the program verses just one person who has a limited amount of time trying to sell the product. When you have a paid job, your monthly income mainly relies on whether you go to work or not. With affiliate marketing, your affiliates could send traffic to your site without you  having to lift a finger after providing them your ad copy and links. It is a way of leveraging your time so that you have many people working to promote your product using their resources rather than just the use of your resources to promote the product.

4. Go worldwide
With affiliate marketing, you are dealing with a global market place. All you have to do is choose a niche product and prepare all the necessary tools for your affiliates to lead traffic from just about anywhere to your website.

5. Low risk
Most affiliate marketers find products through clickbank to promote. As clickbank is a third party who collects and distributes the money their is little risk that payment will not be received. It is a win-win situation for both the person trying to sell their product and the affiliate marketer who is trying to earn income for selling the product through their website.

6. No closing time
With affiliate marketing, your business works every single second of the day while targeting a worldwide market! What could be better than that?

7. There are many third party affiliate programs that feature affiliate programs. Commission Junction lists many affiliate advertisers who have products for sale. You can sign up to be an affiliate for free. As an example, if you are selling an eBay product you can receive a percentage of the sale if someone buys the eBay product off the affiliate link that you have placed on your website.

Looking into the future of blogging, it makes sense to promote similar products to the product you are selling. If your customer like your main product, you might recommend a similar product the customer might like to receive additional affiliate income.