Affiliate Marketing
By David Spangenburg &
Michael Goldman
(Affiliate Manager for Nitro Marketing)
Affiliate programs are one of the preeminent well springs of traffic and sales in the world of online marketing. They create a persistent and unlimited stream of highly focused, positively free commerce for any niche, on any site and they provide it entirely risk free! They constitute one of the greatest returns of time and capital available for both affiliates and product and service owners currently available in internet marketing.
Now, we know, a few of you are out there saying.
“What the hell is affiliate marketing?!?”
Here to illustrate affiliate marketing are Michael and David from TMGold Marketing.
MICHAEL: Affiliate marketing, as defined by good old Wikipedia, “is an internet based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliates marketing efforts.”
DAVID: An affiliate is basically, a commissioned sales person. They drive traffic to your site and in return, you pay them a percentage of the sales they direct to you. This is an exciting partnership because it allows affiliates to profit from the top products, in any niche, without having to create them.
MICHAEL: Product owners, in return, are able to capitalize on this tremendous increase of traffic and sales with no risk, for they only pay a portion of the additional profits that are generated.
DAVID: Affiliate programs create a focused flow of the most eligible visitors.
MICHAEL: A properly built and managed affiliate program is undeniably one of the most lucrative and cost effective traffic techniques ever designed.
DAVID: If you offer a small percentage of the profits to anyone who helps sell your products and services they, in turn, can easily drive millions of selectively targeted visitors to your site without you spending a single penny on advertising or wasting countless hours trying to select the best “latest marketing trick“.
MICHAEL: Many web traffic experts and a number of marketers are willing to invest their own time and risk their own money driving traffic to your website no matter what niche you are offering.
DAVID & MICHAEL: On a cost- per-sale basis.
DAVID: The net is chock full of high traffic content sites with loyal followings that generate tons of cash by selling related affiliate products.
MICHAEL: Either you make money or the affiliate doesn’t get paid…
DAVID: …and who doesn’t want to get paid!
D&M: It’s a win-win situation!
MICHAEL: So, all of you out there…
D&M: Repeat after us!
D&M: Affiliate Marketing is a collective effort between product and service creators and their affiliate sales force
DAVID: Combining their efforts and expertise to stoke the engines of business and trades on the web.
MICHAEL: Working together to maintain an exciting and constantly expanding global marketplace.
DAVID: A wide open, trading floor for entrepreneurs…
D&M: …big and small.
DAVID: An ethereal bazaar of the bizarre and the common place.
MICHAEL: …and, it’s just waiting for our continued and extended participation.
D&M: Come on and take the ride……Affiliate Marketing!!
(502) words Copyright 2008 David Spangenburg/Michael Goldman
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