A Simple Way To Dramatically Increase Your Affiliate Earnings
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Affiliate programs are undoubtedly one of the most powerful
systems of business available today. When they first appeared,
they were a stunning example of how the powerful traditional
strategy of joint-venture marketing, when combined with the
power of the internet, created an entire new industry that
solved the biggest problems faced by webmasters and web
merchants.
For webmasters who specialized in creating valuable web content
and building web traffic, the problem was how to effectively
convert their traffic into a viable source of revenue.
For web merchants who had to spend their energies on creating
good products and delivering them to customers, the problem was
how to do web promotion in a cost effective way.
Affiliate programs quickly became a natural solution to these
problems, offering merchants a way to market their products in a
"cost per sale" manner, while allowing content publishers to
profit from recommending affiliate products to their visitors.
As a result of the huge success of affiliate marketing, there is
now an incredibly large number of affiliate programs for
publishers to choose from. These vary in the type of products
offered, the reliability of the affiliate merchants, and many
other areas. An unfortunate problem for affiliates is that it is
often very difficult to decide which affiliate programs will
make them the most money in the limited space available in their
ezines and websites.
A small but rapidly growing number of merchants, in their
attempts to stand out from among the crowd of available
affiliate programs, and sign up good affiliates, have begun to
offer affiliate programs that pay affiliate referral commissions
to multiple levels of affiliates.
In doing so, they offer affiliates the opportunity to leverage
their efforts through the viral nature of such programs and
maximizing the value of their visitors.
The opportunity to affiliates lie in the power of "lost"
visitors to increase their earnings.
For example, a successful website may attract 1000 visitors a
day and recommend a related affiliate product to them. Of these
1000 visitors, only a small number, perhaps about 5 visitors,
would be interested enough to buy the product. The other 995
visitors end up as "lost" visitors, of no value to the
affiliate. However, if the affiliate program paid commission on
multiple levels, some of the 995 visitors (and also the 5 who
bought products), would probably sign up as sub-affiliates of
the original affiliate. When they in turn recommend the
affiliate products and make sales to their friends and to
visitors of their own websites, the original referring affiliate
will also get paid a referral commission for these sales.
Depending on the number of levels of referral commissions the
merchant offers, the original affiliate may even make
commissions on subsequent levels of sales!
Through such affiliate programs, affiliates end up benefiting
from the viral multiplication of their commissions generated
through visitors who would otherwise be of no value to them.
While some people have compared these multi level affiliate
programs with the MLM programs which flood the net, web
merchants have been careful to draw a clear distinction in that
as with single level affiliate programs, no joining fees,
training fees, nor "start-up" fees are ever required. Since no
money is ever required to participate in these multi level
affiliate programs, no money can ever be made by simply
recruiting people to join these programs.
The value of these programs lies in their ability to unlock the
huge earnings potential in the large numbers of web visitors who
would otherwise be "lost" to affiliates.
If you already participated in affiliate programs, simply switch
to a multi level affiliate program and watch your affiliate
earnings multiply.