Affiliate Program Explained
Affiliate Program Study.
Affiliate Marketing is a wide spread online marketing strategy, from small companies who sells a single product to big companies with thousands of products are using to promote their products. A good example is AMAZON.COM affiliate program. To better understand, in an affiliate programs two parties are involved. One is the Affiliate Owner and the other one is Publisher.
How this works ?
The affiliate owner may be a direct seller or a Affiliate Networking Company who promotes thousands of products from different sellers. As a Publisher you will require to have your own website to promote their products on it. If some visitor on your website bought a affiliated product, you will get a percentage on the sale value.
What is the role of an Affiliate Publisher ?
At first as we told earlier, as a publisher you will require a website or blog. The next is to join with an Affiliate Program. You may join with a direct affiliate programs which come direct from the seller or with an affiliate network. Let us see some examples here.
Direct Affiliate Programs
You can find so many companies offering affiliate programs directly, which means they have their own affiliate softwares to handle all the processes involed.
THINKHOST.COM is a webhosting company who have their own affiliate program. They offer good commission on each sale you make from your website as a publisher of their products.For More details go to their affilaite pages by following the links.
Thinkhost Affiliate Program Details
Thinkhost Affiliate Progam Joining Page
This webhosting company is using an affiliate software from POST AFFILIATE PRO. As a publisher you need to join with them and get the AFFILIATE CODE from them to publish it on right places on your website. If the product you are referring is well related to your website content and you have good number of targetted visitors, there is no doubt you will get good commission. Read the affiliate programs EPC rate (Earnings per Hundred Clicks).
Affiliate Networking or Marketing Companies
Affiliate Networking companies are promoting products from different sellers. As a publisher you need to join with an affiliate networking company and able to promote hundreds of products with them. They are the mediators who takes care of the Registration, Tracking and Commission payout. A good and famous affiliate networking company is CLICKBANK.COM . It is very simple to join with them as an Publisher if you like. The only thing you will need is a website or blog which will be reviewed before they accept your registration. Once you are accepted, you can browse through thousands of products listed by sellers in their directory and join with them to get the clickbank affiliate codes to publish on your websites. Once a visitor of you makes a purchase, clickbank will pay you the commission. All very simple.