Online affiliate marketing is a revenue-sharing venture between a website owner and an online merchant. The owner of the website places an ad on his website either to help the merchant sell the products or to send potential customers to the merchant's website, changing all profits.

Affiliate marketing program

An affiliate marketing program is sometimes called an affiliate program, but it can also be a paid demonstration program or a support program. An affiliate program is a marketing tool for an e-business that operates it, called a merchant or advertiser, and a source of revenue for the e-business that participates in it called an affiliate or affiliate or publisher.

There are three ways to make money through affiliate marketing:

1) Pay per click or cost-per-click affiliate programs: Each time a potential customer leaves the affiliate website by "clicking" on a link to the merchant's website, a certain amount is credited to the affiliate account. This amount can be money and dollars depending on the product and amount of the commission.

2) Pay per lead or cost-per-lead affiliate programs: The merchant pays each visitor an affiliate set fee that clicks and receives and acts on the merchant's site, such as completing an online survey, registering on the site, or opt-in e-mail. To receive mail

)) Pay per sale or cost-per-sale affiliate programs: Each time a sale is made as a result of an ad on an affiliate website, a percentage, or commission, is credited to the affiliate's account.

Amazon story

The world's largest bookstore has the most successful examples of an affiliate program (called their affiliate program). Amazon now has over 1 million affiliates! More than one million websites actively promote their products every second of every day. Amazon generates more than 0% of revenue through its affiliate programs. Which is more than a billion dollars every single year! As another example (slightly less humble in comparison), Zeled generates more than 0% of its revenue using its unique affiliate programs. Admittedly, not many billions of dollars but certainly millions of dollars in revenue each year.

Operates thousands of different e-business affiliate programs: for example. Barnes & Noble, Dell, 1-800-Flowers, Rackspace Managed Hosting, etc.

Affiliate Programs as a marketing tool

Two major benefits to the trader

1. Try direct marketing to direct or sell.

2. The merchant pays only for the result.

Two major benefits to affiliation

1. An additional source of revenue for affiliates who sell products/services

2. The primary source of revenue for affiliates who provide entertainment or information

Two approaches to conducting a successful affiliate marketing

1. Get a huge and affiliate subscription. Amazon Affiliate Programs, for example, has over 1 million members:

- Parts - Sells parts for recreational vehicles and motor homes.

- Dilbert - Site to watch cartoons, play games, send electronic greeting cards, etc.

- Books for managers - Site for business reviews and a list of bartending top-selling business-related books Business Week, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other publications.

- HarperCollins - Promote its site and its authors and their books. Like many book publishers though. HarperCollins sells its books through bookstores and not directly to the public.

2. Get a small number of highly effective affiliate companies that have a high volume of website traffic and provide web page content, products, and services that are directly related to the merchant's products and services.

Related programs as a source of revenue

Participating in an affiliate program and then maximizing your participation includes:

- Choosing the right merchant and affiliate program for your e-business

- Understand the terms of the affiliate agreement

- Add custom links to merchant sites from affiliate web pages

- Build traffic to affiliate sites to increase click-traffic to merchant sites.

Top 10 Tips for Choosing Affiliate Programs That Are Right for You

1. You must identify the product or service that is needed. The product should be what you like and enjoy promoting it. You can get started by searching for "affiliate programs" in search engines.

2. The product or service must be relevant to your website.

Long. It is always wise to join an affiliate program that has been around for a long time, is safe and secure, and has a good reputation in the internet world. This can easily be verified by good business bureaus or other similar organizations. Visiting forums and discussion groups also gives you a lot of useful information.

Most. Most affiliate program providers offer a commission ranging from %% to% 0%. The commission you earn for the sale of a product is your main income. So when choosing an affiliate: readmore