How Affiliate Business Works ?

There are at least four components for affiliate marketing to work:

• Merchant, business actors who provide products for sale;
• Affiliate, people partnered with merchants to market product;
• Customer, someone who buys a product through affiliates;
• Network, liaison between merchants with affiliates. Or you could say third party/platform accommodate affiliate activities.

For the record, sometimes merchants manage their affiliate programs automatically independent. However, they can also cooperate with certain networks. So,The network provides many affiliate programs from merchants.For how the affiliate itself works, it's quite simple: