Friday, 8 December 2006

Concerns of Affiliate marketing

What are the concerns of Affiliate Marketing?
Before we can discuss the concerns of affiliate marketing, we must begin by explaining what affiliate marketing is. Affiliate marketing is, simply put, a marketing concept that allows others to perform word-of-mouth advertising for your web site. These people actually get paid by the website owner according to the results of the advertising, usually in a percentage of sales but could possibly be paid in other ways.
For example, if a person prepares and writes speeches, he may utilize affiliate marketing in two possible ways, either as a paid affiliate or as an affiliate who gets paid, or both. He will also encourage other websites to also become affiliates to further increase his profits. If he charges an average of $100 per speech, he may pay approximately ten percent, or ten dollars to any website that links to his site and return gets a customer from that site. A community calendar website may have a banner ad posted for the speech-writing website. When someone on the community calendar site links to the speech-writing site and purchases a speech, the owner of the community calendar site will receive a commission of ten dollars.
If a person is receiving payment as an affiliate, the speech-writing website owner will most likely link to another site offering public speaking classes, or another site in an associated industry. When a reader from the speech-writing site links to one of these other sites and makes a purchase, the owner of the speech-writing site will then make his commission. This form of marketing allows website owners to help each other with their advertising and to make money in the long run.
However, there are some concerns with affiliate marketing such as how much money will I make, how will I get paid and the question of whether or not it is for real. The amount of money you make greatly depends on the type of service offered, how many visitors your website attracts and what is the demand of your service. For high traffic sites, there is the possibility of making a large amount of money. You are usually paid in the form of a check, however some sties offer different means of payments. And yes, this is for real. Read into it and see for yourself. Ask questions to site owners that you may want to be affiliated with. Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to make extra money and to advertise your site at the same time.

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