Have you heard the buzz word, Affiliate Marketing, lately? Do you know what it is? Have you become involved? Or are you still standing on the outside, scratching your head, wondering what it is?
What is it? It’s actually something quite similar to the “pay-per-click” program. It’s just a bit more common, maybe more sophisticated and starting to spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.
It’s an Internet-based process through which businesses reward each other for attracting visitors or customers to their products. It’s revenue sharing between websites and advertisers. It’s a practice of receiving a commission or percentage for promoting or selling something from your website for someone else. You can have an affiliate button at your website where each click or each sale brings you some sort of profit and you can have your book, blog or website, for example, advertised at other websites where each click or sale results in a commission for that website owner.
What’s the point? More publicity for you and your books or services—a more extended advertising reach for your products. You may also sell more of your books and collect a commission on products that you sell for others.
Is it complicated to get involved? It sounds rather time-consuming and a bit complicated to me. One site promised that you could get involved by following 7 easy steps. SEVEN?
You can hire outside companies to take care of the details of your affiliate program. Commission Junction, for example, at: http://www.cj.com or Link Share at: http://www.linkshare.com
You might be interested in becoming more familiar with the process by reading Rosalind Gardner’s book, Super Affiliate Handbook. Learn more about this book at http://www.superaffiliatehandbook.com
Maybe networking is no longer enough in this fast-paced marketing climate. Maybe Affiliate Marketing is the answer to selling more books and collecting more revenue. Is this something you’re involved in? Are you on the cutting edge with your books or services? How’s it going for you? We’d like to know.