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It's one of the first questions most people ask. How does the money get to my bank account? When you're using affiliate marketing there's a couple of steps involved in the process.
Step 1: Advertise A Product
After choosing a product to advertise you'll start a campaign to get customers. This can be through pay per click, blog posts, free advertisements... lots of options.
Step 2: Customers Click On Your Ads
So you have active promotions all over the internet and you start sending customers to your offers. Everytime someone clicks on your ads they're "tagged" with your unique id. The id will link you with the customer so you get credit for the sale.
Step 3: The Customer Makes A Purchase
You sent a customer to an offer and he decided to make a purchase. Yay!!!! You just got a sale. When the transaction takes place, you'll see the purchase in your affiliate network account.
The best analogy is to think of it like a regular job. You put in the work and at the end of two weeks you're given a check. It's the same thing with affiliate marketing. You make sales and at the end of two weeks the affiliate network will send you a payment.
Step 4: You're Paid For Sales Earned
Affiliate networks have payment cycles, with the standard being every two weeks. So all the sales you've accumulated are paid to you at the end of the payment cycle.
The money is usually sent to you by check. Most of the larger affiliate networks are now offering direct deposit straight to your bank account.
A lot of people like paypal payments, but there are fees associated with sending money through paypal so most affiliate networks don't use paypal.
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