AFFILIATE MARKETING

Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts. An affiliate, in terms of the Internet, means to have formed an affiliation with a person or body to represent that person or body and sell/market its/their products and/or services using the Internet.



Affiliations can be formed between just about any two parties. The one must have a product or/and service and the other must be willing to sell/market that product or/and service. The Internet marketer does not have to stick to only one affiliation but I will suggest that at no time should there be a conflict of interest i.e. selling the same article from different companies. It is just not ethical. The person that has the products/services appoints people to sell/market his/her products/services for a commission. The seller will learn as much as possible about the products/services and will then use the Internet to promote these products/services, obtain orders and, depending on the association, collect the money and pay the supplier who in turn will see to it that the products/services are dispatched/completed.