Affiliate Program

An affiliate program pays commission to online marketers for every sale you make from traffic that they direct to you. They may run email campaigns, blogs or other websites. All they do is attach a code to their link to you. You pick up this code when vivitors arrive at your site. If you make a sale, then you pay commission which could be anything from 10% to 100% depending upon your business model.

Affiliates are your online sales team. Remember that they are working for commission so treat them well and thay can turn a small business into a big one.

Installing Affiliate Programs

We can add a basic affiliate program to your site for only $80. It takes about 10 minutes and involves adding a link and a few lines of code to your home page and the creation of a small database and supporting files on your hosting server.

The bigger your sales operation and the more sophisticated your reporting requirements then the more complex your affiliate program. There are a number of systems for sale on the internet that can be integrated into your website design.

When deciding which affiliate program to buy and install, make sure that they use their own software. If they don't how good can it be?

	iDevAffiliate - An affiliate program that you can install for a one time fee of $99. Package includes 1 year of free upgrades, no monthly fees and the license never expires.

Affiliate Hubs

An affliate hub is a website setup to introduce people with products and services to affiliates willing to market those products and services. The affiliate hub takes a percentage of the commission for this service.

If you use affiliate hubs then there is no need to install your own affiliate software. The other advantage is that the big affiliate hubs draw in a lot of potential affiliates. Then they can read your sales pitch, consider your percentage payout and if they think they can market your product they contact you through the site. The hub runs the affiliate program for you by redirecting sales fulfillment through their sales system.