ARTICLES Affiliate Marketing
What is Affiliate Marketing?
ClixGalore
Affiliate marketing is internet marketing that allows websites to share traffic and revenue using banner and text advertisements.
Merchants who sell goods and services online pay commissions to website owners (Affiliates) for sending traffic to their site. Affiliates can
earn and are paid commissions when one of the following events occur:
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Cost Per Sale (CPA)
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A visitor referred by the Affiliate purchases goods and services from the Merchant. This payment structure is referred
to as - cost-per-sale or cost per acquisition (cpa).
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Cost Per Lead (CPL)
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A visitor referred by the Affiliate completes a form on the Merchants website. This is payment structure is referred
to as - cost per lead (cpl).
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Cost Per Click (CPC)
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A visitor to the Affiliates website clicks on a Merchants banner and visits the Merchants website. This payment
structure is referred to as - cost per click (CPC).
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Cost Per 1000 Impressions (CPM)
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Merchants pay a set rate for the display of one thousand of their banners/advertisements. This payment structure is
referred to as - cost per 1000 impressions (cpm).
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How Can clixGalore Drive Customers To My Website?
clixGalore is a large affiliate network comprising of over 4500+ Merchants and many ten of thousands of Affiliates across our five
networks in the USA, UK, Japan, Australia and India: clixGalore is a global provider of 'pay for performance' internet
advertising solutions for online business Merchants. This year we anticipate to serve over 3.5 billion advertisments and drive over 80
million potential customers to our Merchant's websites. clixGalore drives customers and traffic based on the 'pay for performance' pricing
model. This means that Merchants pay only when a person makes a purchase, completes a lead form or clicks on a banner. This flexibility
provides Merchants with a cost effective promotions model to attract targeted, high quality customers. For Merchants seeking trackable
results, clixGalore is a internet advertising provider that delivers cost effective solutions using a combination of 'pay for results only'
pricing and advanced targeting capabilities.
For Merchants seeking trackable results, clixGalore provides comprehensive management and advanced graphic reporting tools, coupled with
state of the art tracking technology that allows you to take full control of your program whilst it rapidly grows with little or no
maintenance.
Below are examples of just some of the 'real time' management reports provided. (Please note the images have been reduced in size by
50%).
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Merchants - Articles Affiliate marketing is a excellent way to build a large online
sales team and drive customers to your website on a 'pay for performance' basis. As a Merchant you can build your
own pay-per-sale, pay-per-lead or pay-per-click Affiliate program and use graphic, text and custom
HTML/Flash advertisements to promote and drive customers to your website. Affiliates will join your program and
display your advertisements on their websites, sending customers and traffic back to your site. All the Affiliate
programs you build are free and provide you with comprehensive online management and sale reporting tools, so
that you can track your sales, impressions and the customer traffic reaching your website. You have full control over
your Affiliate program, what country your traffic comes from and which Affiliates promote your program. You
also have complete control over the rate paid for each sale(cpa), lead(cpl), click(cpc) or the display of one
thousand of your banners(cpm). You may also choose to use our additional promotional service ensuring that your program
reaches a very wide and large US, European, Asian or Australian based customer audience.
    
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Affiliates - Articles Affiliate marketing allows you to earn high income from your
website while providing related services to your visitors.You can start earning money today with your website by joining
one of the thousands of Affiliate programs located on this site. Many online businesses offer Affiliate programs as a
way of generating sales and traffic for their online businesses. These companies will pay you high commissions based on
the traffic they receive from advertisements you place on your site. You can choose from pay-per-sale, pay-per-lead,
pay-per-click or pay-per-display Affiliate programs. All the listed programs are free to join and provide you with
online statistics so that you can track your commissions. Once you have joined an Affiliate program, you will be paid
according to the programs pay type. (i.e.) a pay-per-sale program pays you each time a sale is made by a customer sent
from your website; a pay-per-lead programs pays you each time you forward a lead to the Merchant; a pay-per-click
program pays each time an advertisement is clicked and pay-per-display of 1000 of a merchants banners(cpm). clixGalore
will send you a monthly check each time your commission reaches US$50 or £35 or €60 or AU$100
    
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Affiliate Marketing, Moving Towards
Maturity
The internet has brought about many changes in the business world; business owners who cannot afford to put up different offices in various
places see a ray of hope with this development. Through the internet, they are able to reach all parts of the world without actually
traveling and putting up traditional stores and offices in each place. One method of introducing your business on the net is through
affiliate marketing. A very much popular method is recognized by any business entity, and that is affiliate marketing. Through this method,
the affiliate is given a reward every time a person visits or subscribes a particular company's website. The affiliate is being rewarded
because of his efforts in promoting your business. Emerging businesses on the net is finding this method quite handy. The affiliate is
compensated through a registrant, a certain value for each 'click', or commission for every sale. It can also be any combination of the
three. You will not pay the affiliate without gaining any result, which makes this modern method attractive. So with affiliate marketing, you
are sure to gain customers rather than losing them. Your business can get as much as a 20% increase in revenue because of affiliate
marketing. E-commerce sites often run affiliate programs of their own, but in other cases, a third party is used to track sales or traffic
referred from the affiliates. Then there are also the multi-tier programs which uses a network of sub-affiliates and sign ups. Through this,
the commission is usually distributed to a hierarchy of referral network. However, most programs associated with affiliate marketing are
one-tier, because the multi version can be rather confusing. Business owner who are thinking of affiliate marketing should first conduct a
valuable research on the different options available for them on the net. Your solution can be through hosted services, a software which can
stand alone, shopping carts, and affiliate networks through a third party. Back in the early days of the internet, many affiliates use spam,
and that is why before, affiliate marketing did not have a very good impression. Presently, spamming is already prohibited because affiliate
marketing has already matured with different successful methods. The web's new face today has a great impact on affiliate marketing. And this
includes interactive communities, blogging, and other new web technologies. Now, business owners can communicate better with affiliates, they
have more chance to get a closer picture of what affiliate marketing really is. The truth is, there are unscrupulous affiliates on the loose,
and they are there just to make money. But because of the new developments on the net, it is much harder for them to thrive in it. They are
easily detected and the community is notified with great efficiency and speed. Today, the internet caters to many emerging businesses that
wants to take part in earning big money. And up to this time, the number of businesses that trust affiliate marketing is still growing. This
brings about more maturity on the part of the affiliates because they face a huge challenge. With many competitors rising, the affiliates
should be able to encompass all the obstacles they may encounter. And though the business has a very little chance to get attention on the
net, once it does, the rewards that you will get are still greater. The gap between offline and online media is slowly being worked out.
Today advertising is becoming more professional in many ways. The chance to be successful whether your business is online or offline is much
greater these days than it was before. About The Author Steven Gerber is a professional copywriter
& marketing consultant. He is a protégé of Dan Lok, the World’s #1 Website Conversion Expert, & in Steven’s totally biased opinion
simply THE BEST. You will find the latest internet marketing techniques & tricks at: .
Great Online Business Opportunities vs. Outright
Scams
It seems there are more and more online business opportunities that come our way each day. There are also many more scams that present
themselves each day, so we need to be careful when deciding to do business with these companies or not. If you’re like most folks, you have a
full-time day job but you want or need more money to live a better life. Many of us work day to day, barely getting by and just want that
little extra to make our lives much better financially. With the latest technological advances like faster internet access and cheaper
computer prices, more and more of us are able to get online today than ever before. With this access, we are able to see so many more online
business opportunities we wouldn’t have had access to just a few short years ago. With this also comes risk. With more great opportunities
also come more scams. More thieves think of ways they can prey on folks to steal their hard earned money and do it over and over again. If
you’re like me, you get assaulted with e-mail after e-mail trying to scam you out of something. Whether it’s a phony e-mail claiming to be
your bank or someone trying to sell your Rolex watches, these scams are all around us. We need to be very careful about the websites we visit
or the links we click. You should never reply with any of your private information to any e-mail, whether it be from a company you do
business with or not. Legitimate companies will never ask for this information and they will never ask you to click a link to go modify your
personal information. When researching online business opportunities, you need to do your homework. Don’t just search for “money making
ideas”, click on a website and sign up for a program without researching it first, no matter how great the opportunity seems. One basic way
is to open up a web browser, go to Google and search for the company name along with the word “scam”. If you start making hits, read some of
the threads. If there are many people out there trashing the company, then stay far away from that opportunity. A great research tool to use
is called Alexa. Alexa is a traffic research tool but can be used for much more than that. You can search on website to see what the Alexa
rating is for certain websites, what reviews, if any, have been written about the company and possibly the owner, address and phone numbers.
Lots of nice little goodies you wouldn’t be able to find elsewhere. Another way would be to use companies like NetworkSolutions and their
WHOIS service. In their WHOIS directory, type in the website URL of the company you’re researching. See who their hosting provider is. Are
they keeping much of their information private? If so, this could be a red flag. This is not always the case however since the world is full
of people who like nothing more than to cause problems for web sites, most companies these days prefer to keep their information private. As
with all investments, there are risks. Don’t invest more than you can afford to lose, start small and build up your accounts as you earn
money in the programs. If you follow these simple recommendations, you will do well. Don’t get too attached to any one program. Even if one
of the programs pays well and seems like they will be around forever, remember nothing lasts forever. Even the best run, well intentioned
businesses can fail. Just remember these important points and your winning investments will easily outweigh the bad ones. Copyright 2006 East
Tech LLC About The Author Andrew Daigle is the owner of many websites including Online Business Ideas
at , a Free Traffic Exchange at , Free DXInOne E-Currency Exchange Training at and many more.


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