Talk About Affiliate Marketing Traffic

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It is true - no matter what business in you’re in, you can put the Internet to use for you and use it to help you build your business and rake in more sales.

Did you know that according to the World Internet Usage and Population Data that as of there were approximately 1,262,032,697 online as of November 2007?

Just stop and think about those numbers for a minute! There are more than 2 billion people online right now…that’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?

Now think about - of those more than two billion people, how many of them have stopped at your website and or purchased one of your products or services? Read more

The Affiliate Marketing Secret

Affiliate marketing is highly cost-effective business model, it is one of the most tried, trusted, and beneficial ways of increasing online sales, and have the potential of bringing in a very large form of income for both parties - merchant and affiliate.

The highly advantageous of this model is that it presents little to no risk for both merchant and ‘affiliate.’ Finding products to promote as an affiliate marketer is super easy.

You are a REAL affiliate marketer, or you’re the “wanna be” dreaming of making money but continuously smashing your head against that “brick wall”… Read more

IAB Affiliate Marketing Handbook - Free

In 2006 E-consultancy estimated the value of affiliate sales to be above £2bn and increasing on average 60% year-on-year. Affiliate marketing is the ideal partner to online retailers as it works like a virtual sales team, paid only on commission.

Affiliate marketing has been using by online retailers and service providers widely. This business model has allowed them doing successfully towards to acquisition of new customers and helped consolidate brands’ positioning in existing markets etc.

Recently, the trade association for the internet marketing industry, the IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) published Affiliate Marketing Guide that help you learn about every step of what and how to setting up an affiliate programme.

This guide is a great introduction and overview of the industry; it packed with information, advice and case studies, together with nice graphics. There are lots of highlighted information in terms of tried & tested techniques and strategies that help brands successfully manage an affiliate marketing programme.

Why don’t download affiliate marketing guide now and read it on your weekend? You will happy you did it.

Affiliate Marketing 2008: Trends, Spends & Dead Ends

Affiliate marketing is one of the considered strategies that all good marketing managers have in their toolkits to assist in driving traffic and sales to their e-commerce sites.

Nicky Senyard, CEO of Share Results, shares her views and considerations for affiliate marketing in 2008

What affiliate marketer wouldn’t want a crystal ball to reveal the online marketing trends that matter for 2008: will the social web shop socially? Will video ads trounce banners? Will mobile meander? What about widgets? And marketing mainstays such as search and email?

Share Results affiliate network CEO Nicky Senyard have some great tips for you on learn how 2008’s online marketing trends translate for affiliates.

“2008 should also see a boom in niche social media interest sites in areas such as travel and home & garden that affiliates can align their affiliate program verticals with.”

Mobile marketing may finally reach its long-promised potential in 2008 as generally accepted platforms, formats and business models unite.

“Widgets deliver a rich media experience compared to traditional banner ads, packaging everything from news feeds to video, games, music and more into one vehicle that users can drop on their desktops, blogs, social networking sites or start pages. Affiliates will find widgets an engaging, portable and trackable way to reach potential customers.”

2008 Affiliate Marketing: Trends, Spends & Dead Ends

Make $10 Million a Year From 10 Hours a Week From Home

This is not another sales pitch, it is a real story that published by The New York Times on 13 Jan 08. It is about a 29-year-old Web entrepreneur affiliate marketer that makes 10 Million a year from home by working only 10 hours a week.

In the story, Markus Frind, the owner and creator of the phenomenally successful dating site PlentyOfFish.com share his success story with the public about how he operates the business out of his apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia that makes him net profits of about $10 million a year.

For me, I like his affiliate marketing revenue and his says “affiliate” marketing links that send users to other dating sites are the “most profitable of all”. Also it’s very interesting to see how he leverages his loyal user base to help him manage the site. Basically lots of his income was from affiliate marketing

It’s nice to see affiliate marketing share the limelight with Markus in a mainstream publication like the New York Times - From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year

Plenty of Fish displays banner ads, Google-supplied ads and, most profitable of all, “affiliate” marketing links that send users to other dating sites. For example, Mr. Frind said, when one of his customers clicks on an advertisement for a book titled “Double Your Dating” and, after being sent to the publisher’s Web site, ends up buying it for $40, the publisher pays Plenty of Fish a commission — of $40 — for the sale, glad to have landed a customer that past experience shows is a good prospect for “upselling” other goods and services related to dating.

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