Affiliate Program Basics

Affiliate Program is a ground floor opportunity. All you have to do is send visitors to your affiliate web site by placing a textlink or banner on your website and receive a commission on each sale, without the complication and expense of selling anything yourself.

Instead, you earn a commission for producing a transaction. Affiliate programs, also known as Referral Programs, Associate Programs, Profit Sharing Programs or Reseller programs, give affiliates the ability to create an online business selling thousands products and services.

One of the first affiliate programs was run by the mega- bookstore, Amazon.com. They still have the largest base of affiliates on the net although they may not be the best affiliate program for many! with over 600,000 web sites being affiliated.

Affiliate programs are generally offered by sites selling goods or services, although some affiliate programs reward other types of transaction such as getting a visitor to sign up for a free newsletter, or a download.

Some affiliate programs pay per lead rather than per sale, in other words, you bring them a prospective customer and they pay a fixed "finder's fee" for the chance to market to that customer.

This is a typical arrangement for affiliate programs in the insurance, real estate and credit card industries, for example:

Types of Affiliate Programs

Pay per sale: If you refer a visitor to the online merchant's site and if visitor makes a purchase you get a percentage of the sale as commission.

Pay per lead: You get paid a one-time fee for generating a lead for the merchant. Usually you get paid $2-$5 if the visitor you referred fills out an application.

Pay per click: You get paid for every visitor you send to the online merchant regardless of any sale or purchase. Usually companies pay $0.05 - $0.15 per click.

Two-Tier: You get commission on direct sales you generate and also you get commission on sales generated by affiliates you recruited. Usually companies pay 25% commission for direct sales and 5% for sales generated by your affiliates.

Bounty: You get a one-time finder's fee payment for the visitor you referred. You will not get commission on any future purchases that customer makes.

The Benefit of an Affiliate Program

Is that you just need to drive traffic to your affiliate site. Write a few articles and provide a few links.

You don't need to find or deal with brokers, wholesalers, inventory, process orders, shipping & handling, customer service, tech support, handle returns, warranties, employees, etc-

An affiliate doesn't even have to be present, your site will keep earning money while you're sick, on vacation, or just doing something else.

Another advantage of being an affiliate, is that you do it from almost anywhere in the world..

How The System Works?

When you join an affiliate program, you will be given a specially formatted URL (Links) that you should use to link to the affiliate provider's site.

This will enable the affiliate provider to monitor traffic to your site and pay according to the type of affiliate program.

Many affiliate programs pay a commission based on a percentage of the revenue generated by purchases made by visitors coming from your website.

For example; if you're participating in an affiliate program that offers a 25% commission and you

send a visitor who purchases US$100 worth of products, you've just earned US$25 in commissions.

The commission rate itself can vary from 20% up- to 50%+ in the case of intangible products such as eBooks or website subscriptions.

Affiliate programs vary widely in terms of overall quality, reliability, commission, statistics, the amount of help that the merchant site offers in marketing the products or services it sells, and so on.

By thoroughly understanding an affiliate program, you'll minimize the risk of not getting paid - and maximize your potential earnings.

Albert Hallado Owner of netbizreview.com (Guide To Internet Based Business) Albert is known for interviewing online business experts and Helping Entrepreneurs Doing Business On The Internet

---

High Earning Affiliate Is It Possible?

Affiliate Program have exploded on the internet. Thousand of people... Read More

10 Profit Boosting Tips To Increase The Success Of Your Affiliate Program

1. Develop credible, benefit rich ad copy, along with a... Read More

Promoting My Affiliate Programs--How?

Getting your website up, is really just the first phase... Read More

Free Keyword Research Tools Are Not As Effective as Wordtracker

One of the most unanswered questions online today is, how... Read More

Article Marketing 101 For Affiliate Program Managers

This article is for Affiliate Program Managers: Interested in increasing... Read More

Top 5 Tips For Frustrated Affiliate Program Marketers

Do you go through affiliate programs like most people go... Read More

Never Get Burnt by a Cycler Program Again!

A cycler or doubler that offers nothing of real value... Read More

Affiliate Marketing Using Commission Junction

Affiliate Marketing is currently one of the most popular and... Read More

A Unique Opportunity For Affiliate Recruiters

If you're a webmaster, web publisher, or web merchant, chances... Read More

Join in on the Success of the 2nd Wave of Affiliate Marketing

What do I mean by '2nd Wave'? ... let me... Read More

Affiliate! Discover Why You Are Losing $600 Each and Every Month!

Link bypassing is the number one trap affiliates fall into... Read More

Webmaster Plans To Increase Affiliate Earnings

Affiliate programs are a great way to earn an income... Read More

Multiple Income Streams From Niche Markets

Multiple income streams; exciting words, but what does it mean... Read More

How to Monetize a Free Website

For some time now I have been aggressively marketing my... Read More

How To Use Articles To Build Your Affiliate Program

Articles are the perfect promotional tool for your affiliates -... Read More

Affiliate Marketing What Is It And Why Use It?

Affiliate Marketing is having Affiliates do your Marketing for you.... Read More

Economic Recession or Not, You Must be Creative to Survive

Are we Really in an Economic Recession?Some US statistics seem... Read More

Where Affiliate Programs Fail and How It Can Impact Your Success

Recruiting people for your business opportunity or paid program by... Read More

Affiliate Programs and Picking the Best One!

Okay, so you have been looking at affiliate programs for... Read More

5 Affiliate Marketing Facts of Life

Affiliate Marketing (AM) is fast becoming a major trend in... Read More

Understanding Affiliate Programs

Years ago before the internet was born, starting your own... Read More

How to Make Money with Affiliate Business Programs

There are thousands of affiliate business programs on the internet... Read More

23 Ways To Use An Ad Tracker

The ad tracker was originally developed to provide a record... Read More

The Easiest Way For Beginners To Make Money Online

There are obviously many ways to make money online, some... Read More

5 Magical Steps For Creating A Profitably Potent Affiliate Program!

There are a few reasons why your affiliate program isn't... Read More

JV and Grow Rich

To illustrate the concept of arranging simple joint ventures that... Read More

How To Boost Your Affiliate Sales With Free Articles

Free Articles continue to be one of the most effectiveways... Read More

The Logic Behind Niche Content Profits

In researching most successful online businesses, you start to notice... Read More

Overwhelmed at the Number of Affiliate Programs, Help is On the Way

Business is founded by the principal of right contacts, meaning... Read More

10 Things WalMart Teaches About Affiliate Marketing

We already know about wal mart because of their ads... Read More

3 Powerful Words

I should have listened to an internet veteran back in... Read More

Choosing the Right Affiliate Program

Requesting information on an affiliate program is an open invitation... Read More

Generate More Sales in ANY Affiliate Program ? Part Four

VISUALIZE, STRATEGIZE, ENERGIZE, REALIZE reprogramming is the subject today.Every single... Read More