Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing? 

• Affiliate Marketing is a type of marketing in which whenever a affiliate bring sale to company through his own efforts in online marketing he gets a reward on behalf of sales.
• Affiliate is not a company employee but any outsider who is promoting the company product online.
• Affiliate marketing can be done by social websites, blogs, articles, or on websites using the company link, if someone buy using that link the affiliate gets paid.

• It is a mutual win-win situation as advertiser gets sales, and affiliate gets return benefit if the sales occur.

Affiliate Marketing is a part of Internet Marketing Benefits of Affiliate Marketing

• It is an easy and extra way to generate income without affecting one’s job.
• Affiliate does not need any capital investment to start marketing other’s products.
• It does not involve very technical knowledge and can be done by people of any age; even students are making good money only through affiliate marketing.
• There are no geographic constraint, one can do this marketing sitting anywhere in the world with the help of internet connection.
• It is new and modern way of online marketing.
• The Business or company gets wider promotion.
• Affiliate advertising leads to more sales for any company.

Future of Affiliate Marketing

• As the products and services in the market are increasing so as the Affiliate online marketing scope is increasing.
• An online study from Forrester estimated that online retailers are going to increase their share in affiliate marketing by 16.7% per year by 2016.
• This huge growth is estimated due to affiliate channel’s ability to produce new to file customers, increasing sales and attracting customers who are spending more pocket than average online shopper.
• It is actually giving sales and benefit to affiliate and businessman and thus it will last forever.
• Online marketing is increasing due to advent growth of Smartphone’s and tablets and the rise of Facebook; affiliates have more options and places to advertise.
• As the competition between publishers and business man are increasing they need more affiliates to increase their sales.
• Website owners also welcome affiliates as it make the website popular, and increase traffic on websites.