There are multiple interpretations to affiliate marketing yet all mean pretty much the same thing. In terms of a coordinated effort to bring together both the merchant and the affiliate, affiliate marketing is controlling a lot of the spotlight. As long as I've been involved in affiliate marketing it has proven to be a very reliable, economically feasible way of producing useful results. many webmasters employ it as a method to garner additional revenue for their online operation. More and more people are becoming interested in affiliate marketing and are trying to learn the necessary aspects to profit of it. Unfortunately, in many cases, first time affiliates don't comprehend enough of the basic affiliate tenants and make unnecessary mistakes.
An all too common misconception with respect to affiliate marketing is 'selling'. Although selling is tantamount to affiliate marketing and one of the main thrust of a business operation it is nothing more than one of the many aspects of online marketing.
Another misconception is that ‘advertising’ is of top importance in affiliate marketing. Although the importance of advertising in a particular product shouldn't be underestimated, the fact still remains, advertising like selling, is one of the many aspects of online marketing. The point is that NO particular aspect should be given priority over another.
Within affiliate marketing, an affiliate is paid for every subscriber, visitor and/or customer provided by way of his efforts. The amount paid forward can be predicated of a specific value for each visit. For those of you familiar with Pay Per Click this will ring a bell. An attractive feature of affiliate marketing from the viewpoint of the merchant is that NO payment will be due to an affiliate until that affiliate has shown qualitative results.
More often than not affiliate marketing is being run by affiliate networks and these affiliate networks are built upon two functional halves, the group affiliates comprising one and the group merchants comprising another. Each has their designated role in affiliate marketing. The affiliate network acts as a mediatory party between the merchant and the associated affiliates. Through this network, the technology is provided to deliver the merchant’s campaigns and offers. Another responsibility of the network is to collect commission fees from the merchant and then pay the affiliates, which are part of the program.
A merchant can be described as any web site owner that wants or desires to take advantage of results driven marketing. The merchant, in most cases is able to recieve a myriad of benefits. First, the merchant can maintain and operate the affiliate program. For the benefits to be extracted, the merchant needs to do a bit of research on interesting affiliate websites to ensure that they find a program that can assist in achieving their goals. Finding a good home for their merchandise would be the key to more generated income. As a merchant one has access to markets and consumers without spending valuable time searching about. Banner ads are another benefit. When used properly they can produce interest for that product and drive the consumer to the merchants’ website. The merchant is also given the ability to dictate how much he is willing to pay for every sale that is a result of a visitor sent from an affiliate.
The affiliate marketer has many benefits for himself as well. The affiliate can be described as a web site owner that promotes one or more merchants and their affiliate programs. There are many who use affiliate marketing to generate a full-time income for themselves. However, this is not an easy task to accomplish. The affiliate must have a clear understanding with the merchant as to - what the commission will be, time frame of contract and expected payment method. The affiliate is also responsible to solicit the merchandise their user based would be most interested in. For example, if a site has a user base composed of mainly stay-at-home mothers, then online job openings such as EBay reselling would be a good match for them. Another example would be to place links to children's products and informational sites. Merchants who are on top of their game will often provide targeted, best-seller items and personal support to their affiliate partners. They often offer sales promotions that will benefit both the merchandiser as well as the affiliate.
To give a better example of what I am explaining I provided this video illustrating how you can create Amazon affiliate links.
Affiliate marketing is a win-win situation for both the marketer and the affiliate. If a strong relationship is forged each can be a strong catalyst to each others business. For those of you online with fairly new business ventures this method is a fairly easy and inexpensive way to assist in generating revenue. Always keep in mind that there are many others on the net involved in affiliate marketing which is why there is no room for complacency.
Do your business the favor and ask yourself what can I offer to the consumer that is going to stand out from so many others businesses?
Regards,
Julian
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Merchants and Affiliates- Benefits of Both
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Affiliate Marketing or Adsense?
Everybody wants to know.... "Which of the two earns more money?" There are tons of theories out there.. Some of which are backed by the proper research, and others that are based solely on speculation or short run-ins with affiliate marketing and/or pay per click advertising.
I've had my hand in both for quite some time now and can honestly tell you that what you put in is what you'll get out. I know it sounds cliche, but when it comes to earning money with affiliate marketing and adsense this phrase couldn't be any truer.
Think of the first time you encountered affiliate marketing (with an affiliate marketing mindset). I'm sure you thought (just like the rest of us) that you could put together a quick site, embed a few banners & links, and laugh your way to the bank!
Now, think back to when you were first introduced to pay per click advertising. Your thought process was probably very similar, if not the same.... "Great, I'll just place google adsense blocks throughout my site, promote it everywhere online, and be a millionaire by the weekend!"
That's the point where most people fall off. Right after that first week rolls by and you go check your earnings.. that's when reality sinks in: If you want to make money with affiliate marketing and/or pay per click advertising, you are going to have to spend a considerable amount of time writing, reading, and researching. No ands, ifs, or buts about it.
So when people ask me which one earns the most money, I simply tell them: Whichever one you work hardest at.
Take Care,
-Antonio
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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An affiliate marketer from Miami Beach discovered what he calls an "oversight" on the part of 99.9% of all marketers that allows him to get otherwise paid-for advertising at Google as well as all other search engines that allow sponsored ads.
This "oversight" is completely legal - and no... it does not require that you know an insider over at Google, Yahoo, MSN, Overture or any of the other marketing Giants.
The Miami Beach Marketer boasts proudly "...this is something that I caught onto just before the year 2000 when there was so much search engine craze running around, and started doing small just to test things at first ... but which I later expanded on after getting the hang of it."
This same fellow went on to start and operate sixteen separate online companies selling everything from pet food, DVDs, children's toys & games, books, software, and sold not only his own manufactured products but became an affiliate for other web businesses - all the while applying his mastermind secret.
Over the course of nearly eight years the genius marketer from Miami Beach confesses "I've actually gotten over $87 million in advertising that using my secret I never had to pay for ... and the largest share of which was more recently in Google pay-per-clicks as well as other forms of pad advertising at search engines ... all of which I got for free ..."
His technique is so that he's able to monopolize any niche online, and can always secure the top premium spots just above the usual organic results featured at most search engines.
He still has to set up an account with the search engines - but after applying his secret he is removed from having to pay for all the costs otherwise involved.
Again, nothing about his secret is either illegal or robs from the search engines.
One spokesperson from one of the most popular search engines said chuckling after being made privy to this amazing secret "Wow! Ha! This is really unique ... and in my expert opinion it would only serve to enhance and bring more business to us at [name of search engine withheld for legal & confidentiality reasons] and not cause us to lose business in the slightest. Amazing!"
The southerner revealed that in this nearly eight years' period of time since applying his secret he's done well over $300 million in sales revenue with a most diverse line of products, and most recently in the last two years netted nearly $166 million after really "buckling down and pressing my secret to its fullest potential."
Now to everyone else's fortune, the city slicker is releasing his secret for getting an unlimited amount of pay-per-click ads to the general public. But he's not promising any of us for how long.
A bit of an eccentric, the gentleman says "We'll see just how long I can make it available before it saturates things."
One famous public web guru pointed out that although this man may gain economically more so as a result of the publication of his secret "he's already so amazingly rich that whether he continues or discontinues its sale will neither make nor break the man, but not grabbing it for yourself while it's still available could prove disastrous for you as you may only have one chance, and a very limited one at that, to get this."
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Best of Luck,
-Antonio
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Friday, May 2, 2008
Affiliate Marketing w/ Sub-Affiliates
Recruiting sub-affiliates is (in most cases) the most beneficial thing you can do for your affiliate business. The reason I say " in most cases" is because it really depends on the quality of the sub affiliates you recruit.
There will be mainly two types of sub-affiliates on your roster at any given time:
First, you've got the casual internet surfer who stumbles upon your page through a series of affiliate marketing queries and thinks to him/herself: "hey, this'll be cool.. I'll be rich in No Time!." This type of sub-affiliate is useless to your business, they put up links and banners for a few days and then get frustrated and quit when they don't see any commission checks during their first week.
On the flip side of that, you will also have a few hard working, consistent, and thus highly beneficial sub-affiliates on your roster as well. These are not so easy to come by though.... You have to really put some effort and thought into how you go about recruiting your sub-affiliates if you want to acquire a sharp, willing-to-learn, ultra-responsive, dedicated network of affiliate marketers on your team.
A well developed team of sub-affiliates can really drive your commission payments through the roof. Study the following example for a look into the world of Affiliate Marketing with the help of Sub-Affiliates.
Imagine you have 50 sub affiliates who each make only 1 sale per month....
Let's say the original Product Price = $119.95
1st Level Commsion= $59.98
2nd Level Commision= $6.00
50 sub-affiliates x 1 sale per month= $300.00/monthly
Examine these other hypothetical situations:
100 sub-affiliates x 1 sale per month= $600.00/monthly
500 sub-affiliates x 1 sale per month= $3000.00/monthly
1000 sub-affiliates x 1 sale per month= $6000.00/monthly
Even if only half of your 1000 sub-affiliates make 1 sale per month, you'd still walk away with $3000 clean.
There are many ways to recruit high quality sub-affiliates. Just use your imagination and get creative, or if you prefer, you can ask the almighty Google for help..
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Friday, April 25, 2008
eBay Leaves Commision Junction
EBay has officially divorced the Affiliate Network Giant Commission Junction. On April 1st eBay re-launched it's affiliate program, only this time it's going to be run in-house through what is now being called: the eBay Partner Network.
If you had previously signed up as an affiliate through Commission Junction you'll need to re-register and get accepted into the new program in order to participate. EBay also urges all affiliates who are migrating from the old program to the new one to create new banner advertisements and widgets instead of attempting to update the ones created under the Commission Junction housed program.
Payment Structure
EBay's "new" affiliate program gives it's members two options when it comes to getting paid.
One way to earn money is through eBay revenue; the way you earn a commission is when one of your referred users places a bid on an item or uses Buy It Now (BIN) within the first seven days of following your link.
The other way to earn affiliate commissions is when your referred visitor becomes a new active confirmed registered user or ACRU for short. In order for a user to be deemed as an ACRU, the visitor must have followed your affiliate link, registered on the site, confirmed their account and placed a bid on any item or used the Buy It Now feature within their first 30 days as members.
So How Much Do I Earn?
The amount of commission you make is based on a percentage of the fees earned by eBay associated with a winning bid by one of your referred users. It can get pretty in-depth to try to explain it, and the amount of the commission also varies depending on which site you sent the user to, as you have the option of sending your visitors to ebay US, Half.com, or a variety of other Countries' eBay websites. For a complete breakdown of commission payments, please visit the eBay Partner Network website.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Maintenance to the Affiliate Outlook Link DB
Announcements - April 23, 2008
As some of you may have noticed many of the links on this blog are broken. I accidentally wiped my links DB clean while cleaning my server and now am faced with the daunting task of going through each post on this blog and replacing all of the broken links.
Here's what happened in a lump sum:
A few months ago I began cloaking my links using the web links module of a CMS I had been developing for the official Affiliate Outlook website. Then, a few weeks ago I decided not use the CMS anymore and completely wiped all of the files and DB out of existence. Bad move, I know.... It's ok though, just another experience to learn from.
I plan to have all of the links working properly by Friday (05.02.2008).. If you happen to find any broken links after that, please send me an email here so that I can replace the invalid URL.
*I'm also working on a couple of graphics for the blog as I've become bored with the cookie-cutter template look, so you can look forward to that as well in the near future.
Take Care,
Antonio
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