what is affiliate marketing?

[saim]

"Hey...
The main defination of affiliate marketing is....
Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more ""affiliates"" for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. Examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with cash or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of others to the site. The industry has 4 core players: the merchant (also known as 'retailer' or 'brand'), the network, the publisher (also known as 'the affiliate'), and the customer.
there are 3 main type of making through it
1 pay per click
2 pay per sale
3 pay per lead
now a days it is most famous type of marketing"

[Random3Bucks.Com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing

Sooooo? What's your point?

[moneytalks]

That's definitely affiliate marketing in a nutshell, but just as any industry, it's evolving fast. There are now more than just PPC/L/S, there's also pay per call (when a customer calls in to a specified number) and now a greater reliance on integrating video into affiliate marketing. If you're really serious about it, and willing to put in the effort, there's much money to be made, but you must be able to distinguish yourself (and your product, to a certain extent) from the crowd.

[Fog148]

Hello there,... How are you all? by the thanks to you all brother for guiding me about affiliate marketing and all these forums are really informational.

[bmatthews]

Affiliate marketing is making someone else money with their product or service and getting a commission.

[tech.biztech]

Affiliate marketing in simple terms is a mutual arrangement between you ( an affiliate ) and an online merchant and you are paid a fixed percentage or amount of commission set by the merchant for creating sales. Basically, affiliate marketing gives a business a virtual sales force of online salesman, while giving affiliates a way to make money online without producing their own products or services.

[trendisle]

I just want to mention the obvious advantages of affiliate marketing. Marketers can promote services and products anywhere. They are not limited and do not have to spend extra time for selling offers. It means that they can obtain more customers this way. The more customers' needs the know, the more sales will be generated at that moment and in the future.

[WhereToForex]

Affiliate marketing is a revenue-sharing venture between a website owner and an online merchant. The website owner places advertisements on the site to either help sell the merchant's products or to send potential customers to the merchant's website. This is done in exchange for a share of the profits.

But I guess that you already answered to your question by yourself.

[trendisle]

I would like to add that in affiliate marketing no physical connection is needed. Anyone can work from anywhere in the world as long as one has an internet connection.

[gony]

Affiliate marketing is an advertising model that works especially well online. It allows advertisers, also known as merchants, to sell their products and services through affiliates, or publishers. Basically, affiliate marketing gives a business a virtual sales force of online salesman, while giving affiliates a way to make money online without producing their own products or services.

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