<p>Well, if you are aware of the history of digital marketing, you probably are confused about how affiliate marketing works. &nbsp;</p> <p>Let me tell you what is affiliate marketing and how it is a great opportunity to earn money for a normal person like you and me.</p> <p>Well, this will be better with an example.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now let’s see, you went to a store and found a great product that you think your friend will like. What would you do?</p> <p>You’ll go and tell your friend about the store and the product.&nbsp;</p> <p>If they buy that product from that store and tell your name,</p> <p>Shopkeeper will then give you a commission for referring. That is nothing but you being an affiliate marketer and the whole process is called affiliate marketing.&nbsp;</p> <p>Refer your friend</p> <p>The word affiliate quite literally means to attach or connect. So you are connecting a seller and a buyer which makes you an affiliate marketer.</p> <p>Now that you know what is affiliate marketing,</p> <p>let us get a little deeper into how it works and how it will help you as a marketer or as a user</p> <p>But before that, let’s learn what cookies are first.</p> <p>I know, if you’re thinking of good smelling biscuits, think exactly the same. When you break a biscuit, you leave little biscuit pieces behind.&nbsp;</p> <p>Every time you click on a website link, you see a pop-up that asks for your permission to accept cookies.</p> <p>When you accept the cookies, you are giving permission to the website to collect your data and help you with relevant content.</p> <p>The cookies might not help a user that much but they will help the sellers a lot. The data a marketer collects will help him understand the interests of the user and give them exactly what they are looking for.&nbsp;</p> <p>So every time you accept cookies, remember, you are letting a website help you with better suggestions.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now that you know how cookies work and how they are useful for a marketer,</p> <p>why don’t we learn digital marketing and its growth.</p> <p>If you remember our previous introduction class, you must know that Affiliate Marketing is a 12 billion dollar industry.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now let’s see how you play off into this scenario.</p> <p>In a 12 billion dollar industry, that keeps growing every day, there is always some place for you to become the next best marketer of the industry.</p> <p>Like every industry, the affiliate does have its ups and downs depending on the reputation of the product and its service.&nbsp;</p> <p>Affiliate marketing has ups &amp; downs</p> <p>Study the market to be a marketer.&nbsp;</p> <p>Affiliate marketing, like any other industry, has evolved a lot throughout the years. What started as a simple commission to a person who refers their product, is now a business and a capital investment market.</p> <p>There are companies that solely rely on affiliate marketing, earning millions over simply referring.&nbsp;</p> <p>We have a whole affiliate marketing course in the DBA check the course here.</p> <p>Now, all these companies have one thing in common, they make sure they study the market and the time to market a certain product.</p> <p>So, if you are looking to market something, be sure to understand the need of the product in the market and if it is the right product at the right time.</p> <p>But how will you understand which niche should you pick to market a product or service? The next lesson has got the answer to your question.</p>