What is Affiliate Marketing?

The General Definition

• Affiliate Marketing revolves around Revenue Sharing between online advertisers/merchants and online publishers/salespeople, whereby compensation is based on performance measures, typically in the form of sales, clicks, registrations, or a hybrid model.
  
  
• In some cases, Affiliate Marketing has gotten a bad reputation. Thanks to dis-genuine "sales people" only eager to make a quick buck thinking the Internet is some  magic bullet  to the money train!  Nothing could be further from the truth.
  
  
• Affiliate Marketing, when done correctly, focuses on a genuine need "of the people" with products and services promoted that folks actually are looking for.
  
  
• Affiliate Marketing requires effort and constant SEO implementation for success. That's what we are here for...to help you succeed with your online marketing campaigns the RIGHT WAY. 

Affiliate Marketing Benefits - Description and Information

The advertisers/merchants are typically referred to as affiliate merchants and the publishers/salespeople are referred to as affiliates.

Benefits of affiliate marketing include the potential for automating much of the advertising process (accepting & approving applications, generating unique sales links, tracking & reporting of results) and payment only for desired results (sales, registrations, clicks).

Paying only for performance shifts much of the advertising risk from the merchants to the affiliates, although merchants still assume some risk of fraud from partner sites.

Affiliate marketing has contributed to the rise of many leading online companies.

Amazon.com, one of the first significant adopters, now has hundreds of thousands of affiliate relationships.

It is not uncommon to see industries where the major players have affiliate programs--often structured in a similar manner and making similar competitive changes over time.

Amazon.com has redefined affordable online shopping for the world!

They have one of the very best affiliate Marketing Programs available today.
The Amazon Online Store is a glass ceiling. It has limitless bargains for every product imaginable.

The very best part, as an Amazon Affiliate, is that you can rest assured and be convinced in your heart that when you partner with them, you are marketing a product that people need...and that they can afford. I highly recommend checking it out for yourself!
- William Castleberry, Castleberry Marketing Strategies - President