Affiliate Marketing Programs
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Many of you are aware of what an affiliate program is all about. It is a marketing program wherein affiliates promote the products of merchants through various ways. One of the common techniques adopted by most affiliates in implementing this program is using website or newsletter. Affiliates normally used websites to promote merchants' products. They write useful contents related to the products being promoted and published through their websites. This allows any visitor to the site to get detail informations about the products which in the long run leads to sale of the products. Similarly affiliates use newsletters which are distributed through free subscription. This form of campaign works very effectively as the affiliates can make product promotion news and informations easily available to the people right into their mail inbox. Email compaign also works along the same line as newsletter campaign. But whatever technique the affiliates use, their primary concern and job is to effectively promote products so that these products end up being sold.
Scopes Of Affiliate Marketing
For Marketers
Affiliate marketing has immense scope for people who want to promote or sell out their products.Through this marketing compaign, they can take their products to the widest audience across the globe. This way their products can be effectively and profitably commercialised at the quickest possible time and with least budget. The advantage for the marketers in adopting this form of marketing program is that they don't have to do much in promoting their products. What they have to do is just assigned the job to some affiliates who in turn will use all possible means to promote the products. But this requires that the affiliates are handsomely paid for the job.
The most positive outcome of this marketing compaign has been the instances of people who have been greatly benefited by it. John Peterson was just an ordinary tailor who could just manage a simple living doing all the tailoring stuffs day in and day out. But once he happened to attend a seminar on affiliate marketing organised by a local businessman. After that his way of business concept got a drastic change. He wanted to expand the horizon of his tailoring business which had vast scopes and prospects if he channelised it the right way. He took a bold and the right step. Today his branded garments are being promoted by hundreds of affiliates around the world which is bringing him profits after profits and his business is only getting wider and wider.
So it will be wise for the budding business merchants who wish to expand their businesses to take the right step by joining some affiliate networks and start their product promotion compaign straightaway with the help of registered affiliates. This way they would be able to boost their sales results and also give them the much necessary opportunity of branding their products without any cost but with prospects of great return.
For Affiliates And Publishers
Affiliate marketing is one of the most lucrative opportunities that anybody could find in the internet today. As an affiliate you can earn huge amount in the form of commissions by effectively promoting and selling merchants' products. Most merchants even offers bonus along with the regular commissions for excellent performance on the part of affiliates. There are many affiliates who are earning commissions way beyond the $50000 mark and that too each month. Unbeleivable !! isn't? But its true because as an affiliate there is no limit of how much you can earn. The more better you do in your job as an affiliate the higher is your return.
Those who want to become affiliates and start earning money can join the following networks which are currently the most popular and recognised Affiliate Marketing Networks.
Commission Junction
Commission Junction is the most popular affiliate marketing network with over thousands of registered merchants and companies. The popularity of this network can be gauged from the fact that establised and famed companies like Yahoo Inc, Apple Store, Adobe, AT&T, Lenovo and Monster are major players of the network.
Clickbank
Clickbank is the largest E-Commerce Network and has the feature of both selling and buying the products over its network itself. Currently Clickbank is associated with digital products only. That is, it deals with only those products that could be sold or purchased through internet like downloadable softwares and e-books. It is easy to join Clickbank. Merchants who wish to join Clickbank have to have the way of delivering the products online.
Linkshare
One of the largest affiliate marketing networks, Linkshare has hundreds of registered merchants with over 10,000,000 of affiliates actively participating in it. Some popular players in this network are big names like Toshiba, AT&T, Avon, Match.com, Western Union And Fujitsu. Linkshare has excellent service for its merchant community which makes it the the top choice for many upcoming merchants.
Affiliate Fuel
Affiliate Fuel is not a big name as an affiliate marketing network but it offers excellent service when it comes to advertising merchants' products. With quality publisher base Affiliate Fuel is helping merchants to take their business to the next level of high profitability and efficient operation of business. It is easy to join AffiliateFuel as an affiliate partner.
ClixGalore
With different marketing programs like CPA(sale), CPL(lead) and CPC(click), ClixGalore offers flexibility for merchants to create and built their own unique marketing programs which is easily made possible by its excellent support team. ClixGalore's strategy of marketing significantly boost merchants' sales results, product branding and website traffic. Currently ClixGalore is a host for more than 1000 merchants and 100000 affiliates with the number increasing each day. The positive side of ClixGalore is that it has no restriction on the type of business it host. It automatically accepts both small and medium businesses of any category. A good choice for the newcomers to take their business to the next level.
