Understanding affiliate
marketing types could help one further understand affiliate
marketing business model. It also could show the true potential
of affiliate marketing and how much potentially you could be
earning when you get really good at it.
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Percent
Per Sale Program
On this type of affiliate
program, you get a cut per sale and that is it. You get nothing
after the sale is done and over. The range of commission could
range from few percent to all the way above 75%. Most affiliate
programs in the internet are base on this type of affiliate
marketing.
Pay Per
Lead
Some merchants that have a
longer sales cycle will offer this type of program such as
website for loans, insurance and etc. One of the reason this
kind of program is around because the line of business being
promoted is more matured and stiff competition. The program pay
you for the prospect who has come to their website via your
affiliate link when the prospect takes a certain action such as
filling out a form to get on a mailing list.
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Recurring
Income
The types of affiliate
marketing is most comment membership sites such as adult sites,
hosting site and etc. The merchant pays you a set amount
(or percentage) on a continuing basis as long as the customer
you referred remains a customer. Some merchant will even pay you
more when the customer upgrades his/her membership in future.
Residual Income
Commissions that continue to
pay you each time the customer you referred buys from the
merchant. You actually become the virtual “account manager” for
the customer except there’s no ongoing work involved. Once your
customer is referred and buys the merchant’s product, the
merchant remembers who referred the customer and you get
commission for all the future sales. The commission will be paid
even when the customer buys some other product/service in future
from the merchant which you did not promote earlier.
Ad
Revenue
Showing third party ads on
ones website could be considered as an affiliate marketing too.
The premier network for serving text ads on a website is
but there are many ad networks that offer a variety of options
including both MSN and Yahoo!
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