Poor Folk Marketing.com

 

marketing iedas internet marketing online marketing offline marketing

Featured Business, Start a Personalized Candy Wrapper Business:  Wrapcandy.com

  Home  | Small Business Information | Pay Per Click Advertising | Affiliate Revenue | Web Promotion

Affiliate Marketing Terminology


Affiliate Marketing is a large business piece on the Internet. The (online) retail customer often does not know that he/she made the recent online purchase through an affiliate link. He/She sees a product of interest on a certain website, clicks on the link and completes the purchase wherever the link takes the customer. Every day people get introduced to affiliate marketing and want to make money from it. In many cases these new affiliates do not fully understand the affiliate world and make costly mistakes.

The following terms are important and every affiliate should know what they mean:

1) The Merchant: The merchant is any web site owner that wants to take advantage of performance based marketing. The merchant maintains and operates the affiliate program. The merchant decides how much he is willing to pay for each sale/lead that results from a visitor sent from an affiliate. Sometimes the merchant uses a 3rd party provider to operate the affiliate program.

2) The Affiliate network: An affiliate network acts as a 3rd party between the merchant and the associated affiliates. The affiliate network provides the technology to deliver the merchant's campaigns and offers. The affiliate network collects commission fees from the merchant and pays the affiliates that are part of the program. Well known affiliate networks are Commission Junction, AzoogleAds and Linkshare.

3) The Affiliate: An affiliate is a web site owner that promotes one or more merchants and their affiliate programs. The affiliate gets paid a commission if he/she can generate a sale/qualified lead for the merchant.

4) In most cases affiliate programs pay a commission per sale. This can be a fixed percentage or it can be a fixed dollar amount. Commission fees based on a certain percentage level per sale can be more rewarding for the affiliate if he/she is dealing with high priced items. Low priced items do not generate high income from affiliate sales. The following technical terms do exist:

Cost per sale(action) - CPA
Cost per click - CPC
Cost per lead - CPL
Cost per 1,000 -CPM

Overall - affiliate marketing can generate a full-time income for the affiliate. This is no easy task to accomplish though. One of the best known affiliate programs is the program operated by Amazon.com.

About The Author

Christoph Puetz is a successful Entrepreneur and international book author.

Websites operated by Christoph Puetz are The Web Hosting Resource Kit and Highlands Ranch Colorado and Affordable Vitamin Resources.

This article can be published by anyone as long as the resource box (About the Author) is posted on the website including the links. These links must be clickable.


MORE RESOURCES:

BBC News

Kerry, Snowe, Schumer Push Sec. Paulson to Purchase Small Business ...
MarketWatch - 11 hours ago
John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Ranking Member Sen. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Charles Schumer, a senior ...
Is TARP Really a TRAP? BusinessWeek
Is TARP Really a TRAP but is Scott Malkinson really Scott Malkinson? thestockmasters
Congress Returns — and So Do Political Fissures Over the Economy TIME
all 438 news articles


PR Web (press release)

UPDATE 1-Fed's Kroszner-small business credit access shrank
Reuters - 13 hours ago
... businesses have tightened substantially since last April," Kroszner said in prepared testimony to the House of Representatives Small Business Committee. ...
UPDATE: US Officials: Econ Woes Big Hurdle For Small Business EasyBourse.com
$1.6 Trillion in Bailout Funds Fail to Find Their Way to Small ... PR Web (press release)
Treasury Turns Attention to Credit Needs of Small Businesses Insurance Journal
AFP - Reuters
all 46 news articles


EPA Reform of SPCC Rule Benefits Small Business
MarketWatch - 6 hours ago
The Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration is encouraged that the EPA listened to small business and included those provisions in the ...


UPDATE 2-Intuit cuts outlook, sees small business cautious
Reuters - Nov 19, 2008
... software and for revenue from payroll and bill payment processing services, as its small business customers get squeezed by the deepening recession. ...
Intuit Q1 Loss Widens; Lowers Full-Year Forecast RTT News
all 45 news articles


Small business focus of Detroit mayoral debate
DetNews.com, MI - 9 hours ago
The forum at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History focused on small business, and candidates testified about how they fostered economic ...
Detroit mayoral candidates make their cases at forum Detroit Free Press
Mayoral candidates to hold forum Detroit Free Press
all 5 news articles


Wells Fargo named top small-business lender in Texas
Bizjournals.com, NC - Nov 19, 2008
Wells Fargo Bank, NA has been ranked the leading small-business lender in both the United States and Texas, according to the latest Community Reinvestment ...


Wall Street Journal Blogs

SBA steps aimed to fuel small-business lending
Finance and Commerce, MN - 8 hours ago
by Finance and Commerce staff The US Small Business Administration announced two steps this week to improve access to capital for small businesses. ...
Small business loans dwindle The Tennessean
With Credit Tight, US Gives Small Business a Hand New York Times
Obama's Change.gov Website Drops Promise to End Small Business ... Earthtimes (press release)
MarketWatch - MLive.com
all 271 news articles


Evening Sun (subscription)

Small Business Committee to discuss growth strategies
Times Herald-Record, NY - 21 hours ago
By Christian Livermore MONTGOMERY — The Orange County Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Committee will present a discussion, "Help Your Business Grow," ...
Chamber honors local small business leaders Evening Sun (subscription)
all 2 news articles


Zions Bank Small Business Index Released
Main Street Business Journal, UT - 10 hours ago
The Small Business Index makes the assumption that most of Utah's small businesses are borrowers, with interest rate cuts boosting the Index. ...


TalkSwitch Ships 35000 Small Business IP-PBX Systems
TMCnet - 7 hours ago
“We’ve sold more systems because we understand small business better,” Scheeren said. “No other company has focused exclusively on small business telephony ...
TalkSwitch(R) IP PBX and Covad(R) Integrated Access Delivers ... SYS-CON Media
all 6 news articles

Small-Business - Google News

home | site map
PoorFolkMarketing 2007