Affiliate marketing is beneficial both for merchants and the marketer. It’s a popular method to earn profits, helps merchants to increase their sales and is the cheapest business on the internet. There are many important benefits of affiliate marketing to marketers and merchants. A few of these are discussed below.

A few benefits to the marketer are:

1. Products are already provided for you.

A benefit of marketing is that products are already provided for you, so there is no need to create a product. You just need to select the products to sell, get the required affiliate links and start selling. There is no need to worry about the production or delivery of the products. It’s taken care of for you.

2. Very low start-up cost

Another feature of affiliate marketing is that you can start little out of pocket money (most of the time no money is required). This is the lowest investment in today's world to start a business.

3. Easy Online Business

The merchants make the products, deliver the products, handle the money transactions and complete all the hard work of a business, leaving the affiliate marketer to focus on marketing. The fact that the only responsibility of the marketer is to promote their affiliate links, make it one of the easiest online businesses to get into.

4. Make Money 24/7

With the affiliate links listed on the website all the time, you don’t need to remain online to stay in contact with your customers. People can visit your website whenever they want, 24 hours a day and visit your affiliate links. You’re only concern is to check your email to see how many sales you have.

5. You’re not obligated to stay in any one particular market.

As an affiliate marketer you can choose products from the hot market at any given time. It’s as easy as registering with a merchant that has an affiliate program, obtain the products and start advertising.

A few benefits for the merchant are:

1. Less Time for Sales

The main website of the merchant is advertised by many marketers at the same time. This allows many leads to the product page of the merchant and essentially more sales in less time.

2. Broad Market to Sell

Having affiliate marketer’s that are related to your business expands the market to merchants. The marketer’s website receives hits from potential customers and they in turn will visit your website to make the purchase.

3. Less Effort

Affiliate marketers do the hard work of advertising your products for you. This allows you to spend less on advertising and leaves you time to focus on the quality of products, delivering the product, or developing new products.

Affiliate marketing can provide the easy, fast and reliable money to marketers and allows for more sales for the merchants with less time and money.