E-Commerce's Third
Best-Kept Trade Secret

Affiliate marketing, also called revenue sharing or pay for performance advertising, is where a business merchant creates a network of commissioned sales people to market and promote products or services.

Advertising that Funds Itself!

Merchants create an advertising network of affiliates who promote their products or services at their own expense. They share a percentage of their revenue as commissions for sales leads or actual sales.

Some examples of companies with affiliate programs are:

  1. Commission River Communication
  2. 1&1 Domain Names and Web Hosting
  3. Worldwide Brands
  4. Grower Flowers

New Workforce!

The world-wide web has revolutionized affiliate marketing, as the affiliate may never leave his home and does his marketing on the web. It's a great way anyone with computer skills to earn an income including housewives, students, handicapped, retired, or in fact anyone in the work force either part-time or full-time.

The Computer Information Age !

However, sometimes merchants cheat their affiliates out of their commissions and affiliates would cheat their merchants via phony sales or unethical advertising like SPAM e-mail.

Fair and Impartial Middlemen ! !

A new industry evolved whereby a third party would act as a go between for merchants and affiliates to discourage cheating and to provide a central place for verified and real affiliates to verified and real merchants. The main two of these third party go betweens are Commission Junction and Linkshare.


4 Best-Kept Secrets of Internet Advertising

  1. Linking Strategies
  2. Free Search Engines
  3. Affiliate Programs
  4. PPC Search Engines


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