• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Right Mindset
  • Learning The Ropes
  • Market Research
  • Email Marketing

AffiliateXFiles

Affiliate Marketing Training And Strategies

genesis framework
  • Affiliate Marketing
    • Affiliate FAQ
    • Affiliate Programs
    • Affiliate Marketing Products
    • Affiliate Marketing Software
  • Market Research
    • Article Marketing
    • Email Marketing
    • Copywriting
    • Domain Name
  • Blogging
    • WordPress Plugins
    • WordPress Tutorials
  • Social Networking
    • Facebook
    • Social Media

Affiliate Marketing And The Merchant Benefits

October 6, 2009 By Ron Leave a Comment

The merchant, or the company offering the affiliate marketing program, is the one who will most always benefit from affiliate marketing .

There are many reasons for this, and each in its own way is what’s driving more business to consider adding such a program to their marketing plan. It was until recently a largely untapped marketing technique, but now makes up a substantial portion of online marketing.

Understanding The Process Of Affiliate Marketing

affiliate marketing The process of affiliate marketing is to allow third party companies to place advertisements on their own websites for a product or service that you provide. Then, if consumers react to that advertising in a certain way that third party site is compensated.

Some of the compensation methods aren’t as solid as others. For instance, some require the site visitor to merely view an ad. Others require the visitor to actually click the ad.

The method that is most widely used and easily the most beneficial to merchants is a method in which the third party sites are paid out only when a product or service is ultimately purchased. This means a visitor to that third party site would have to click an ad, or a link of any kind, that takes them to the merchant’s site.

They will then have to actually buy a product or service. At that point the merchant pays the affiliate, the third party site, a commission.

How Affiliate Marketing Has Evolved

One of the biggest benefits to this is solely in the way it has evolved. In times where affiliate marketing was based on cost per click or systems in which sites were paid out based on the number of visitors, there was a lot of fraud going on.

The affiliates were able to easily manipulate the system to make it look as though more people were clicking or visiting than was really the case, but in the current system money actually has to be exchanged before there is any revenue sharing.

Key Benefits Include…

Another key benefit to affiliate marketing of virtually any kind is that there is very little work to do on the part of the online merchant. All they have to do is set up the affiliate program through such affiliate networks as Clickbank or ShareAsale, PayDotCom and then let the affiliates do all of the work for them.

With that being said in many situations however, there is time and money invested in ensuring affiliates have all of the best tools to work with, including graphics, pre-made ads and product information such as articles and a series of email auto-responder messages that the affiliates can use.

Now that eighty percent of affiliate marketing pays out only when a purchase is made, the benefits to the online merchant are so much more obvious. While the third party affiliates are busy doing all of the difficult work, the merchant only has to worry about paying money when they themselves are making money. This is unique to pretty much all other marketing.

TV ads, magazine ads and radio spots, to name just a few, these other forms all cost money no matter what sales result where as using affiliates to promote their products does not.

Because the benefits are so clear cut, even mainstream retailers are starting to take more notice of the practice. In the coming years it’s likely that consumers will be seeing it happen even more that it is happening now, affiliate marketing has become popular to many internet users.

Tweet
Reddit
Share1
Share
1 Shares

Filed Under: Affiliate FAQ Tagged With: affiliate, Clickbank, Make Money, Marketing

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Ron Cripps the author of AffiliateXFiles has been online since 2001 full time firstly starting his own business selling e-books.

Ron is dedicated to providing as much information to new affiliates so that they can start their own business online, please join our Affiliate Newsletter. Read More…

Subscribe To Our Site!

Want To Learn More About Affiliate Marketing? Enter Your Email Below.

Thanks, you will get all the information you need as we add new content.

SEO Tools to Boost your Channel Visibility

Top Traits of Highly Effective Website Developers

Lawyer Lead Generation Affiliate Marketing 101

Here’s How You Can Harness the Power of Email Marketing to Promote Brand Engagement

7 (Likely) Reasons Your YouTube Videos Aren’t Popular

Tips To Manage Multiple WordPress Websites Better

Why Should You Consider Instagram as a Potent Marketing Tool?

Paid Advertisements

How To Buy Blogs And Websites

How To Get More Blog Traffic

Footer

Stuff To Check Out

  • About Ron Cripps
  • Submit A Guest Post
  • Comment Policy
  • External Links Policy
  • Advertise
  • Get Connected With Affiliate X Files
  • Sitemap

Recent Posts

  • Trudy Seeger on 9 Ways of Using Social Media to Lead Your Business Toward Success!
  • Isabel Anguiano on YouTube: Best Practices to Increase Views
  • Alexander Alison on YouTube: Best Practices to Increase Views
  • Eadlyn Schreave on 7 Godly Tips To Increase YouTube Views
  • RonGc on YouTube: Best Practices to Increase Views

AffiliateXFiles
Ron is dedicated to helping others Learn Affiliate Marketing.

Address:
176a Duroby Creek Rd, Bilambil
NSW 2486
Australia.

Phone: (07) 5590 7739

Copyright © 2008-2017 AffiliateXFiles

Disclaimer: If you buy through any affiliate links on this site Affiliate X Files will earn a commission see our Site Disclaimer or FTC Compliance Notice · Privacy · Social Media Disclosure · TOS · DMCA · Copyright Notice · Sitemap · Advertise · Submit A Guest Post · Anti Spam Policy · External Links Policy · Data Access ·

Powered by Genesis Framework With Child Theme Magazine Pro by StudioPress · Log in

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}