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What is an affiliate network?
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More and more people everyday, around the world, are turning in their traditional sales and marketing plan for a cheaper and easier way of selling their company or organization. Affiliate marketing strategies are popping up all around the world, and since its fruition not so long ago the sales and marketing departments in most organizations saw a dramatic hike in their daily sales portfolio. This is something many business will lay testimony to and this is also something that has been tried and tested and is proven to work for anyone and any company that adopts the marketing strategy.
Affiliate marketing, simply put, is a way to promote your online business. An affiliate will be rewarded for each subscriber, visitor, customer and sale that he or she refers to your web site. A commission is rewarded at a certain cost for each of the above, so it will be Pay per click, where you will pay an affiliate for every click he or she brings to your web site, pay per registration or better known as pay per lead, where you will pay an affiliate for every successful registration, pay per sale, where you will offer a commission on any sale made through your affiliate's efforts, and you can use a combination of any of the above. Many merchants love using affiliate marketing because it means that they do not need to pay a cent for marketing until there is real proof that a lead has been met, or a result is seen from his affiliates, this is called the "pay per performance" method.
So now that you know a little more about affiliate marketing, let's get to the matter at hand - Affiliate network. Simply put, an affiliate network is an online media value added intermediately, which provides a service that includes distribution, campaign performance reporting and tracking and aggregation for affiliates and affiliate merchants. This network makes life easy for both the affiliate merchant and the affiliate. It provides things like tracking technology, payment processing, reporting tools, and a huge database of other affiliates to the affiliate merchant. For the affiliate, it provides things like easy to find affiliate merchants, payment aggregation and reporting tools.
These networks are plentiful on the web and are free of costs to join, however they are very difficult to find. They are sometimes called providers of marketing solutions or the network to pay per performance, or advertising network to CPA, and even sometime they are called an online marketing performance based company. These companies or affiliate networks can provide CPA, PPL, PPS, and PPC from websites you promote. Most affiliate networks allow anyone to sign up, and others want your website to get at least a certain minimum amount of visitors on a daily basis. Others even let you see a certain amount of their data base before you sign up, those are the better ones, which know they have nothing to prove to anyone.
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