What is a business affiliate program? This is an affiliate program that is specifically aimed at Business’s and self employed people.
Instead of working hard to attract as many small time customers as possible, you can work directly with big business affiliate programs and reap the rewards.
One example is the IC Web People affiliate program, they offer a 20% commission on all website sales. They have a simple signup process which allows business’s a way of offering pre existing clients web development service in order to capitalise on a new and hassle free revenue stream.
Because of the large volume of affiliate schemes and people hoping to make a million on get rich quick schemes, the term affiliate scheme has been given a bad name. This is a genuine opportunity for business people and self employed people who already have existing clients.
It works as follows, Company A signs up to the ng/article_exit_link’);” rel=”external nofollow” target=”_blank” href=”http://www.icwebpeople.co.uk/affiliate-program”>affiliate program, they are then given a unique referral id as well as unique banners and text links for which they can include on their website. One of the many customers of Company A, lets call him Client B, then visits the site and happens to need some web design project completed. He clicks through using the ling on Company A’s website and the click and contact is tracked and can be viewed in Company A’s referral account. The project is completed and signed off, and Company A is credited with a 20% commission while Client B is enjoying a fantastic new web site which he has had produced.
This is only one method, If a company knows one of their clients is looking for a web design team, they can simply contact IC Web People and let them know, then when the client contacts the company, Company A can still be credited with the associated commission.
If you have any interest in IC Web People’s affiliate program or would like more information, just look for the IC Web People online.
Thanks
Natalia Montez
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Tylan G
on June 27 2010
Hello,
I'm currently working from home with a great company. They give you everything you'll need. They have people you can call when ever you need. Check it out.
Jmo
on June 27 2010
The pros are that you will have others helping you sell your products and then you normally only pay them once they have sold the item so you can't really loose out on that part of it.
The cons are that there is quite alot of work involved and you have to advertising your affiliate program just like a site to get affiliates interested in signing up. It's not an easy task running an affiliate program, but you can let 3rd party networks take most of your workload of you by paying them a little extra so that they can practically run it and help get affiliates for you.
Just in case you are wondering where to get software then there is some of the best affiliate tracking software listed at: http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-software/1.html
The ShareASale listing in that link that I have just given you is a very good network that will help you get affiliates and will manage most of the affiliate program for you. You are also able to set up datafeeds, allow lifetime commissions, pay per sale, click, lead, etc.
That is a very good and reputable network. I'm an affiliate over there, but there has also been a lot of good stuff that their merchants have said to.
Hope this helped you out a little further in your decision on what to do.
Good luck anyway.
harlanauctions
on June 28 2010
Since you already have affiliate programs in place I am forwarding directly to you a link with detailed information that not only may appeal to you as an affiliate program but also will increase traffic to your existing offers.
Steve
on June 28 2010
I would look for all the rotator programs I could find. Free banner ads that you can add to your site. Free classified ads. Usually they want you to add a small button of their site to your own.
Raj
on June 28 2010
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Krystal
on June 29 2010
It is amazing how many people have spammed your answer as well with absolute garbage. It is ridiculous anymore.
In response to the first comment:
No it will not increase your sites "popularity" as the network redirects a link through them and internal programs will be penalized by Google, etc…. if they are not using a nofollow tag to let the bots know that this should not be a backlink.
Plus most affiliates will add in a nofollow piece to the urls to prevent you from getting an SEO boost on their expense giving you an advantage within their niche making it uneccesary to have them.
To response #2:
There are costs involved, you pay on each sale, you pay network percentages, start up fees, man hours fulfilling orders, labor charges monitoring for trademark bidding and adware users, as well as time spent recruiting real affiliates who do not try and cheat you using adware and scumware.
The benefit they were trying to point out though is that after incurring all of those fees, you now only pay when a sale is made. However if the sale is made by an adware user, you are now paying when the affiliate does not even earn the commission, they just steal from you. To prevent this you will need to hire firms which can manage programs for you and will protect you from these toolbars and adware installs. The firms that will actually care about you are few and far between. A couple I trust to do this are:
http://www.affiliatefairplay.com for adware removal
http://www.downtownecommerce.com for full management or cleansing or co-management
http://www.affiliatecrew.com for co-managing a program
and a great place to get a further education on this scumware and cheaters is http://www.abestweb.com
Also, the affiliates that will avoid your program for paying less than 50% commissions are probably not good affiliates anyways. If you want the ones that move products and can generate sales on actual physical products in a legitimate way, you will want to use a network like Share a Sale or Performics, or Commission Junction or Linkshare.
Now be very cautious on the network as most of them will push adware on you and list adware affiliates as their top performers on their homepages.
This is just my opinion, but avoid Click Bank if you have a product you want to move and join an affiliate network and not a CPA like CB. Also, percentages work at 2 and 5%, it depends on the industry. 3-5% is great for electronics, 7-12% on clothing is good, 5-10% on sporting goods, 6-12% on contact lenses, etc….
I hope this helps you.
kai holland
on June 30 2010
Yes they do – it is managed by Comission Junction
drpepperok
on June 30 2010
Are you running a business running an affiliate program or someone working as an affiliate (or affiliate marketer)? Those are two very different things and take two different approaches.
If you are an affiliate, then go out and become active in social networks, forums and other blogs in your niche. Post and become active. Those are some of the best ways to drive traffic to your website. Also, if you're running a blog style website, post like crazy — at least 5 times a week, and I've found that longer posts do a lot better in search engine results.
Check the link below for a ton of free information for someone starting out as an affiliate.
Balazs
on June 30 2010
there are none…..
If you have been reading this section for ANY period of time you'd know that…
They are ALL scams… ALL OF THEM…