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“Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.” – Wikipedia
This basically means that if you, an affiliate of the company, bring the company a paying customer, they will share the proceeds of that sale with you at a prearranged amount.
Affiliate marketing is most prevalent on the web, and affiliate marketers play a significant role in many company’s online marketing strategies.
How affiliate marketing works
Affiliate marketing works by an arrangement or contract between a person (or company) and a business selling products and services.
L'accord précise le montant que l'affilié recevra s'il réalise une vente pour le compte de l'entreprise.
Lorsqu'un affilié présente l'entreprise à un client et que celui-ci réalise une vente, l'affilié reçoit sa commission.
En général, dans les scénarios en ligne, cette commission s'accumule sur le compte de l'affilié auprès de l'entreprise et il reçoit un paiement au début du mois suivant pour les efforts du mois précédent. Parfois, il existe un niveau de paiement minimum que l'affilié doit atteindre avant que les fonds ne soient versés.
How affiliate marketers help businesses
Affiliate marketers help business because having an affiliate marketing for you is like paying a commission only sales person.
Online, this could potentially mean hundreds or thousands of online salespeople reaching potential customers that would cost you much more than if you were to try to contact them yourself.
C'est cet avantage qui justifie que l'entreprise verse un pourcentage de la vente à l'affilié. Tout le monde y gagne.
The nuts and bolts of how affiliate programs work
Affiliate programs are schemes set up by businesses to have people help them promote their products and services by providing a revenue split with the affiliate when they bring a customer to the business that buys something.
Affiliate programs work by sending a predetermined percentage of the proceeds of any sales to the affiliate when the customer buys something from them.
The company installs a tracking system that records where their visitors come from, this is usually done by providing the affiliate a special code to apply to their links.
When the customer clicks on the affiliate’s link the code is activated in the tracking system to record where the customer came from. If the customer then goes on to complete a purchase, the affiliate is credited with providing the sale and shares in the revenue.
Basics of affiliate marketing to get right
The basic things you need to get right include:
- How to present your links to be clicked
- What wording your have around your links to show that you endorse the product/service on the other end
- Tracking your marketing efforts using appropriate software
- Ensuring you have filled all your legal obligations for disclosing the nature of your recommendation
The next step is to get as many people to view your links as possible and try to get them to click through so you have a chance of earning a commission.
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