Affiliate Networks

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:39:53 +0000

Affiliate Networks act as intermediaries between affiliates and merchants. Networks provide merchants with a wide variety of tools which help them create effective campaigns and monitor the successes of these campaigns. Most networks can also offer merchants a large number of affiliates who are currently actively promoting similar sites/brands.
Networks provide a much simpler way for affiliates to sign up to CPA campaigns. Affiliates can browse through a directory of merchants viewing information such as commission levels, average earnings per click, how long the merchant has been with the network etc… It is then possible to sign up to these networks and start promoting them straight away. One of the main advantages is the simplification of having to bill merchants. If you are working with 10 merchants on a single network you will only have to worry about receiving money from one company instead of having to invoice 10 different companies separately.
In the UK, the main affiliate networks include Affiliate Future, Affiliate Window and TradeDoubler. Most networks are free to join for affiliates, but merchants have to pay fees which can stretch well into the thousands of pounds. Affiliate Window requires £5 to open an affiliate account, but this is credited to your account and is paid back as soon as you have earned £20 in commission.

Think Affiliate – Affiliate Marketing Introduction

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:37:40 +0000

Affiliate Marketing is an online marketing method of providing website owners with an incentive to promote specific products and merchants by means of remuneration. At its most basic, you get paid a commission for each potential customer you forward to an advertiser who then goes on to make a purchase. The commission amount varies between merchants and not all affiliates are even on the same commission level. Some merchants have their own affiliate programs, whilst others sign up to affiliate networks which add an extra layer into the process. Affiliate networks charge quite large fees to merchants, but in return affiliates get added levels of security that tracking is fair and can be relied upon and merchants get access to a wide variety of tools.
The purpose of this site is to provide you with information about how to start out in affiliate marketing and how you can turn this into a good revenue stream and then a full time job.

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Affiliate Networks

Think Affiliate – Affiliate Marketing Introduction