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What is affiliate
internet marketing? It is the marketing tactic of businesses
or websites by rewarding affiliates for each visitor or customer
brought to the site due to the affiliates' own marketing efforts.
An affiliate in this case refers to a marketer who benefits
by being sharing in profits after referring a customer to a business.
In other words, gets paid by a system commonly known as pay per
lead.
The internet, being a platform where you can easily reach out to
millions of people is a very suitable means of marketing. In this
respect, there are several internet affiliate programs that
a business owner can choose from to effectively market the website
and eventually boost the business itself.
Among the very common programs of affiliate marketing is
'pay per click'. This works by the affiliate creating a website
and having links of the website being marketed in it. Once an internet
user clicks on the links and visits the site, the affiliate gets
a commission. This is so even when the new visitor does not pay
for anything on the site.
You may be wondering why one gets a commission even without a single
cent being removed from the pocket of the visitor to the site being
marketed. To understand this, you must first understand one of the
core principles of marketing and that is to make a brand or a business
known to as many people as possible. By directing traffic to a website,
one is doing so and hence the commission.
Another affiliate online marketing program is what is commonly known
as pay per performance. Unlike in the previous program, the marketer
only gets a commission only when a transaction is made between the
referred subject and the website. This means that the internet user
who has been referred has to pay first in order for the marketer
to benefit. However, the commissions in this case are usually bigger
than in the pay per click program.
Multi tier affiliate marketing on the other hand involves the business
owner joining a program and providing links to products. A marketer,
within the same program, then places this links in a website and
earns commission from each click made.
Affiliate internet marketing is slowly becoming widely used
in today's business world. It benefits the merchant by providing
a market through the traffic as well as the marketer by providing
a means to earn easy money online.
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