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Simplified affiliate programs
The Internet is the largest market in the world. Hundreds of thousands of companies are selling their products and services online, each desperately trying to stand out from the masses. With millions of web pages on the Internet today, it has become increasingly difficult to get noticed among these masses. To sell any product, a company usually uses several marketing systems.
We have all come to know and love them (or hate them). Colorful banners, annoying pop-ups, pop-ups, underlays, spam emails, and even messages on our instant messaging service (Spim) are used to draw the crowd's attention to a particular product or service. Many of these ads will create excess 'useless' traffic (that is, people simply going to the advertised site to see what all the hustle and bustle is about). As a result, this advertising method is often considered unreliable and inefficient and must be used in large numbers to be successful. Enter the affiliate program.
Affiliate programs are essentially used for someone other than the product owner to promote and sell the product.The affiliate program owner offers a fee to the affiliate each time someone purchases from the affiliate program owner's website through a link placed on the affiliate's website. This leaves the advertising of the product almost entirely in the hands of the affiliate, who only receives a fee if a product is actually sold.
Affiliate programs can generate large networks of affiliate sites that can dramatically increase the sales of a particular service or product. Affiliate program referral fees can range from a few cents per click to hundreds of dollars for registering or selling a product.
Affiliate programs have the nice addition that they are incredibly easy to set up, often requiring only a few minutes per month of maintenance to get potentially high returns. As an affiliate, all we have to do is put the affiliate program link on our website or find some other means to link to the affiliate owner's website and the money will start to flow on its own.
Unlike endless banners, pop-ups, underlays, pop-ups, and spam affiliate programs often manage to be a more direct advertising method. Only interested parties will generally click on affiliate links, turning a lot of casual surfers into genuinely interested buyers.
