What is Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is a way of promoting online business through affiliate programs and advertising that pay the affiliate (or publisher) a type of commission based on the amount of business their website brings the merchant company.
Its a form of revenue sharing or commission based advertising. The term affiliate marketing, however, is often associated with network marketing or multi-level marketing and therefore many companies prefer to use the term performance marketing . Affiliate marketing is the most cost effective sort of marketing there is, and is actually incredibly efficient. For this reason, many companies (especially those that started in the early days of e-commerce) owe a tremendous amount to affiliate marketing (amazon.com is a good example) and it has now become normal for companies to include affiliate marketing in many of their plans.
There are three types of compensation methods that are associated with affiliated marketing. The first type is Cost per Click (CPC) or Cost per Mil (CPM.) Basically, the affiliate earns by how many clicks the advertising on hisher site generates, or by just having the advert published on the website. But because of click fraud and many other questionable tactics, CPC is no longer the general form used for affiliate marketing. Generally, companies now either use CPA (Cost per Action) or CPS (Cost per Sale.) The first is based on how much the advert generates interest by the clicker to actually buy or register at the advertised site, the second is based strictly on sales. In other words, an affiliate is paid if the clicker actually purchases something on the advertised site.
The later is the most common and quight frankly the most lucrative for the affiliate marketer. For the marketer he or she only needs to worry about one thing and one thing only generating traffic, more specifically targeted traffic. This is a whole other topic that we can write novels the size of "War and Peace". The affiliate marketer has no product to worry about uploading, storing, shipping, and warehousing. The affiliate marketer does not have to worry about billing and returns. Or the hopefully infrequent irate customer.
Further the Affiliate Marketer doesn't need to worry out a sales copy. Now you will need some education in ad copy and yes this is a whole other topic, but a lot of publishers will supply this for you. Basically as an Affiliate Marketer needs to drive tons of targeted traffic to his or hers publishers/up line's sales page. If you can do this and check email, you should be a very successful Affiliate Marketer or even one day , a Super Affiliate Marketer.
To Your Success,
Chris C.
What if instead of hunting people down until they begged you to stop... pre-qualified prospects actually sought you out and asked you what you do and how you do it? http://RNM.TheNetworkRenegade.com
Chris is an accomplished Affiliate and Network Marketer. He has hundreds of hours of research devoted to affiliate marketing and many articles to his credit. He recommends http://www.rnm.thenetworkrenegade.com
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