Why You Should Offer An Affiliate Marketing Program
1 Attending
  • Joseph Gustavsen Joseph Gustavsen

Thursday, May 3, 2018 7:18 am - 10:18 am

Connecticut
Chad
You'll be joining the 130,000 Smart Insights members from 80 countries who trust our advice to Plan, Manage and Optimize their marketing.

Affiliate marketing can be thought of as outsourced marketing, in which you're hiring affiliates who are paid to bring you customers. If they drive visitors to your website, you don't have to pay them. You only pay them if they convert visitors into customers. While you are trying to generate traffic as a marketer, the main goal is to increase the number of customers. If you generate a million visitors a month, but the visitors don't equate to more leads or revenue, it's almost useless. This is why the affiliate marketing space is so popular, especially in the web hosting industry, where most of their business is from affiliates.affiliate marketing network

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This workshop is timed just prior to the online holiday shopping rush Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner! And did you know that genealogy societies and libraries can participate in many of the affiliate program s as well? Several of the largest genealogy societies in the United States earn money for their programs and events by getting their members to use their affiliate links for online shopping.

The graphic summarises the affiliate marketing process. You can see that the when a visitor to an affiliate site (who may be an online publisher or aggregator) clicks through to a merchant site, this prospect will be tracked through a cookie being placed on the visitor's computer. If the prospect later transacts within an agreed period, i.e. usually 1, 7, 30, 60 or 90 days, the affiliate will be credited with the sale through an agreed amount (percentage of sale or fixed amount).