Affiliate Marketing - How It Works

Affiliate Marketing – What Is It?

Affiliate Marketing is basically a marketing campaign by large companies or businesses looking for ways to increase their sales and profits thru online marketing strategies. Affiliate marketing is a big money saver for these companies because unlike conventional methods where the businesses paid for the advertising whether or not the product sold, business owners only pay when a specific result is achieved.

Affiliate Marketing usually takes place in three forms:

- Pay per Click

- Pay per Lead

- Pay per Sale

How they Work –

Pay Per Click – the affiliate (publisher) places a coded link on their website that they have obtained from the business site. Each time a visitor to their website clicks this link or ad, the affiliate receives a certain amount of revenue for that click. It is usually a very small amount a cent or two.

Pay Per Lead – the affiliate (publisher) is paid a commission by the business when a customer signs up at the business site. However, this doesn’t mean that a sale has to be made; a lead sometime qualifies for as little as an email address.

Pay Per Sale – the affiliate is only paid when there is a definite sale. This type of agreement is most favourable by the businesses it is a guaranteed sale and least favoured by the affiliate (publisher). The only way the affiliate gets paid is when the sale goes through.

One of the most biggest and profitable online marketers is Amazon.com. Being one of the earliest companies to adapt to this form of marketing, Amazon.com has hundreds of thousands of affiliate relationships. Many businesses that exploded into internet marketing in the following months and years patterned their marketing strategies after them.

Sometimes businesses will use an online community such as Craiglist to find affiliate marketers for their products by placing ads on the boards. Affiliates can find potential leads by posting in the services section or the resumes section of this community bulletin board.

Payment for affiliate marketing usually is a cheque but there are companies that pay you through the various online payment choices such as paypal, alertpay, to your credit card or debit and various other types. Before signing up for affiliate marketing be sure to check whether or not you are satisfied with the payment amounts and how you are to be paid.

Acid Reflux

Acid Reflux is a common problem that occurs in most people sometimes in their lives. Common symptoms are heartburn, Dyspepsia and persistent hiccups . Some people use over the counter medications and others are prescibed certain medications to help relieve this. Some common foods in our diets are known to cause acid reflux, they are; garlic and onions, mint flavorings, spicy foods,foods that are high in fat content, caffeine products , chocolate , tomato based foods and alcohol. Avoiding food 2-3 hours before bedtime can also help to eliminate this. Do you have Acid Reflux? What do you do/use to relieve this?

Coupons for Shopping?

Many people use coupons for shopping as ways to save money on groceries and everyday items. Manufacturers offer coupons off of already reduced items in the hopes of clearing some of their stock. I use coupons occassionally but many people I know use them on a weekly basis saving hundreds of dollars off of their grocery bills in a year. Do you use coupons? Here are a couple that you can use:


Chapters.Indigo.ca $2 & #5 Clearance Sale

Entertainment.com

Capcha Codes Are They Needed?

Many sites use Capcha Codes as a means to keep their site somewhat free of spammers. This code can be both helpful and bothersome at the same time. Capcha Codes should be in place when a person logs into their site but is it really needed every time you do something on a site? Take myspace for instance, many members are considering leaving the site because of the Capcha Code. Myspace is a place for communicating, meeting new people and socializing. Let's say someone posts a house party in a certain city, spontaneously in 3 hrs but limits the number of invites for instance. Everyone that doesn't have anything to do at this time within the area decides to go hook up with their friends on myspace. They quickly try to contact the party thrower on myspace but find everytime they go to email the Capcha Code is incorrect, not accepted or the event is full. Perhaps another way to signify the use of myspace for email or comments to others on the site is to make the sender put more than a "nice pic" or "where can we meet?" reply email as a response to something that they have seen on the site.

Yesterday, there was an article written up in the Washington Post in regards to spammers cracking the Capcha Codes that were put in place by the 3 Big Mail Servers on the internet. Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have all used Capcha Codes as a way to deter the spammers who bog down their mail servers with senseless offers of items or services that people don't want. These spammers both human and computer generated, have broken through some of the Capcha Codes allowing spam email to flood members mailboxes. They create numerous ficticious email addresses to send all sorts of spam email through the internet that somehow manages to bypass the spam email filters produced for this particular reason. Something different perhaps can be put in place once someone invents it but to quote the last statement, "Making tests harder for the computer, makes it harder for humans as well." Anyone have any suggestions? Does having Capcha Codes on sites bother you?