Amazon Associate Program is an affiliate program run by Amazon. It was started in the year 1996. Under this program you need to advertise products sold by Amazon and link to them. This could be in the form of a product review, more information about the product etc. When a user clicks from your website, reaches the products page on Amazon's website and buys it, you get a percentage of the money earned through sales.
There are 3 main types of Affiliate Programs:
Private Affiliate Program,
Affiliate Network &
Amazon Affiliate Program.
As an affiliate marketer, one can use the social media platforms to make their brand or service known to the people.
The other benefits of using social media are :
Flexibility to handle their own account.
Social media involves no cost for its basic features.
Large target audience can be reached on social media platforms.
You can place as many links as you want to.