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What Are The Pros And Cons Of Affiliate Marketing

October 17, 2009 By Ron Leave a Comment

When it comes to shopping online, affiliate marketing makes getting the things you need and all of the things you want a lot easier.

It is a system that was designed and refined over time to help create mass consumer awareness for products and services with a minimal investment of money and time from the end merchant or service provider.

The resulting affiliate systems, which are widely in use today, have successfully made it so consumers can get to the best products faster.

affiliate marketingTraditional Marketing Does Not Work The Same As Affiliate Marketing

Traditional marketing makes consumers aware of the products and services that are out there, but it’s difficult to measure, let alone predict, how various marketing methods reach and affect consumers. It’s also hard for marketers to target the exact demographic that they want to reach.

As a consumer, the result is not always getting the message that the marketers want them to receive.

Finding The Right Demographics

With traditional marketing, finding the right demographic is really what it’s all about. When a product or service is intended for a certain type of person, marketers need to find out what that type of person is exposed to in any given day so as to best reach them.

Figuring out what television shows they watch is a good example of this. Still, the people that are reached usually expand far beyond that demographic, and the exact demographic is still not guaranteed to be reached. This becomes especially true in an age where less people are watching commercial TV.

The result while obviously bad for those selling products and services, it is also bad for the consumer in so many cases. The reason why that is, no matter how much people say they don’t want to be advertised to, people really do want to and need to be made aware of products and services that can better their lives.

People From All Walks Of Life Use The Internet Daily

Now going back to the internet, one of the biggest benefits that it gives the marketing world is that virtually any desired demographic uses it in one form or another. The question becomes what sites are a particular demographic visiting. This is where affiliate marketing most often comes into play. It is able to reach the demographic in its most narrowly precise way.

If a consumer is interested in bicycles, for instance, and a new product has come out that can make locking their bikes a lot easier and safer, they will want to know about it. Traditional marketing would reach out to them by deciding where the typical cyclist goes, so as to post billboards, and what the typical cyclist watches, so as to run commercials.

Affiliate marketing gets the upper hand because on the internet you don’t have to find a demographic; the demographic finds you.

Think of how well this works. Consumers who are interested in bicycles will go on the web and look at bicycle related content. No one but those interested in cycling will visit those online places. Once there the consumer will be able to easily learn about this desirable product because that particular site was encouraged to tell them, all because of affiliate marketing.

When this example is expanded to include virtually any other type of product or service, it’s clear to see how affiliate marketing helps consumers find the things that they want and need.

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