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Affiliate Marketing - What is it and can you
make some Easy Cash from it?
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 marketing efforts.
Just like a referral.
Refer friends or others to a product - and when
they buy something, you get a small commission.
Affiliate
Marketing is also the name of the industry where
a number of different types of companies and
individuals are performing this form of internet
marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate
management companies and in-house affiliate
managers, specialized 3rd party vendors, and
various types of affiliates/publishers who promote
the products and services of their partners.
Affiliate
marketing overlaps with other internet marketing
methods to some degree, because affiliates often
use
regular advertising methods.
Those
methods include organic search engine optimization,
paid search engine marketing, email marketing
and in some sense display advertising.
On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use
less orthodox techniques like publishing reviews
of products or services offered by a partner.
Affiliate
marketing
- using one site to drive traffic to another
- is a form of online marketing, which is frequently
overlooked by advertisers.
While
search engines, e-mail and RSS capture much
of the attention of online retailers, affiliate
marketing carries a much lower profile.
Still,
affiliates continue to play a significant role
in e-retailers' marketing strategies.
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