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Article Title: All About Affiliate Marketing and your Small Business Article Description: An affiliate marketing business with a social networking & viral marketing arm is the only way to go. This business model gives increased leverage to avoid seeking small business loans. Additional Article Info: Word Count: 691 (not including resource box) Category: Business Written By: Ted Morgan Contact Email: [email protected] Article URL: http://myarticleannouncer.com/go/va.php?article_id=3985 Article Autoresponder: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> All About Affiliate Marketing and your Small Business © Copyright 2005 Ted Morgan An affiliate marketing business with a social networking & viral marketing arm is the only way to fly. This online business model gives increased leverage to keep you from having to search high and low for small business loans as your financing plan. It is the way to be frugal as you start planning and researching the best ways to generate ongoing business cash flow, especially during this time of global economic recession. Affiliate marketing is a means for average people to make money at home on the Web, who have no product or service to offer. For most business scenarios, dealing with a third party should be kept to a limit as you want to have as much control over your operation as possible, except when it comes to the business of affiliate marketing and the concept of getting rich with these programs. Affiliate marketing programs are a perfect business opportunity for those wanting to get their foot in the door of the business world but may not be able to leave their home. An affiliate marketing business gives you the opportunity to become a savvy business person in a highly competitive field without ever having to invest money on inventory or even leave your house. Affiliate marketing is a business promotion technique in which revenue is shared between a website owner and an online business. It originated from the practice of revenue sharing in which business revenue is shared between business affiliates. Let's dissect some of the more important forms of affiliate marketing. Pay-per-lead: in this form of affiliate marketing, whenever a client registers at a merchant's website as a result of an advertisement on the affiliate's website, a stipulated amount of money is given to the affiliate. Pay-per-sale: in this method of affiliate marketing, for every sale resulting from the advertisements featured on an affiliate's website, a share of the profit is given to the affiliate. Personal websites (known as replicated), have in fact, been a major contributing factor to the emergence of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing has led to the emergence of several online companies and Internet marketers. Both business merchants and websites benefit from affiliate marketing, without any additional expenditure of time or money. In fact, implementing affiliate marketing strategies do not require any technical expertise. The merchant simply adds more replicated websites to an existing affiliate marketing program to cover a wider range of products and services to increase one's earning potential. In building an affiliate marketing business know and understand this two-step process, strategic planning and implementation. The planning step is the killer of most small businesses because of the lack of business knowledge. Without knowledge, it is near impossible to implement any plan. Knowledge is the necessary foundational ingredient before implementation leading to business success. Please read and understand the affiliate marketing business agreement thoroughly. You should not depend on what you think you know with flawed knowledge; you need to know with certainty. You need to know and understand because the affiliate agreement is a legal document and you will be held accountable to its terms. If you are not certain, by all means ask someone that knows. The agreement is your legal business protection but there are things hidden within it that you may not be fully aware of. First off, you need to understand that the agreement was written in the hand of the company and their lawyers. Secondly, the agreement was written to protect the company first and foremost. Thirdly, if you do not fully understand and agree to the agreement, then by all means do not agree to its terms. Finally, you need to further understand that an affiliate marketing business is not your business; it is simply an end to your means and a way to monetize your small business. Some people think the affiliate program is their business. In reality, the affiliate program is the company's business and when you sign the company's affiliate agreement you become a cog in the company's business, a middleman, affiliate or distributor of products/services for the company. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- An affiliate marketing business with a social networking & viral marketing arm is the only way to go. This business model gives increased leverage so you do not have to seek small business .http://aff-masters.sitesell.com/Ted2748.html <----- Article Ends Here -----> This article was auto-submitted by the author with ease using: http://www.MyArticleAnnouncer.com/author=moneymagnet ------------------------------------ This group is no longer maintained. It only exists for the archives. Please submit your articles at http://www.pickbrains.com/submit-article instead. Yahoo! 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