What is an Affiliate and how to make money using Affiliated marketing?

Many of you are aware of or at least heard of at least once about the word "Affiliate" and some of you are familiar with it and some might not. Today I wanted to share you with great tutorial video that shows how to be an affiliate and how you can use it to make some income.

If you are like me, you would look for some way to make money Internet without spending money out of your own pocket. In doing so I have visited many affiliate sites, subscribed countless news letter as well as a lot of email from this Internet Marketers. So far, I haven't spend money to purchase these offers I have received, nor I have made any money...Lol but I gained many useful information. One thing, I heard many times on blog, forum, and sites I have visited, is "Affiliate".
By the dictionary definition it is:

1. A subordinate or subsidiary associate;
   
2. a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization A subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization
   
3. Verb:Join in an affiliation Keep company with;
   
4. hang out with Join in an affiliation

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing between a merchant and an affiliate who gets paid for referring or promoting the merchants' products and services. It is one of the burgeoning industries nowadays because it is proven to be a cost-efficient and quantifiable means of attaining great profit both for the merchant and the affiliate. Article Source:Dean Shainin

It sounds so easy and simple to be an Affiliate, but marketing was never my forte. However, after I have seen this video, I could grasp the concept of  this whole Affiliate marketing. This video shows how to be an Affiliate and how to successfully promote the chosen product. This is free video tutorial and I thought I would share this with anyone who might be interested in. Hope this is some useful to some newbies like me =)

Unfortunately, I couldn't embed the video on hubpage. (Can't do it without using html and not allowed)
http://videotutorials.com/affiliate/v1/index.html
http://videotutorials.com/affiliate/v2/index.html
http://videotutorials.com/affiliate/v3/index.html

Another thing I learned is mask affiliate ID name or number because there are people who can steal your affiliate earnings. There are
great free services that you can get at tinyurl.com/ and pinurl.com. Both are free short URL redirection services that will let you shorten long, confusing, and hard to remember URLs.

Pinurl and tinyurl keeps track of your entire pin URLs and gives you a hit total for the day and a total hit count.

Ok. I am really green but  I have learned so far.

Patience. You have to have a blog or site that has a lot of traffic before anyone will make a purchase on your site.

Content comes before traffic. If you do not have anything of interest you will not have traffic.

Patience. If you have content that draws traffic you will have people who will be looking at your banners for the affiliate sites.

Personally, I am working on step #2. :)