BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Affiliate
- a company that is controlled by another or is a member of a group, or either of two companies that owns a minority of the voting stock of the other
Wiktionary Definition for: Affiliate
- #Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
- Ex:''The local channel was an '''affiliate''' of a national network.''
- To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
- To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to or with.
Additional Resources
- Affiliate Marketing Tips - How To Become An Expert Affiliate Marketer
- Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful ways to make money online. There are plenty of affiliate marketing tips out there that will jump start your way into making over 6 figures a year just by selling other merchants products. If you do not know what affiliate marketing is,...
- White papers 2008-06-16
- How To Be A Better Affiliate - The Right Approach
- Many people venture into online affiliate marketing for the first time only to walk away with a sense of disillusionment and lighter pockets. As their efforts to attract or convert prospects fail, these wannabe affiliates conclude that affiliate marketing is not for them or just something cooked up by people...
- White papers 2008-01-06
- The Benefits Of Selling Your Product Through Online Affiliate Marketing Programs
- Affiliate marketing programs are actually agreements between website owners and merchants. Under this, the affiliate or website owners agree on allowing their website to be used for promotional activities, linking to site of the online vendor for the products. In return, the merchant pays a certain percentage of commission for...
- White papers 2008-01-18
- Affiliate Marketing: Time Management Is Essential to Your Success
- By nature, affiliate marketers are kind of a jack of all trades. Affiliate marketers have to do a little bit of everything on a daily basis. Update the website, write reviews and tutorials, send out the newsletter, manage link exchanges, research new products and niches. In affiliate marketing, good time...
- White papers 2006-04-02
- How To Extract Value From Consumers - Great Affiliate Marketing For Retailers
- This paper explains affiliate marketing like: Return On Investment ROI is king; working with your affiliate partners; providing best in class search marketing tools; the right product at the right commission; defending your brand; and content, content, content! Affiliate marketing has been widely adopted by retailers globally - the value...
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Affiliate Marketers Take Lessons From Media Agencies
- This paper explains six key learnings that affiliate marketers should consider when running and securing affiliate programmes - to ensure maximum returns: an understanding of how marketing functions operate and how merchants work is essential; affiliate marketers need to act as a filter between merchants and affiliates; tailored reporting for...
- White papers 2007-08-13
- Managing A Successful Affiliate Marketing Program
- "What does it take to manage a successful affiliate marketing program? Thousands of affiliate sales partners? A big brand name? The highest commission rates in your category?Although each of these elements can certainly have a positive effect on your program, the ultimate success of an affiliate marketing program is based...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Improve Your Affiliate Marketing Program
- Affiliate marketing is a hot trend among web fans and fanatics. This is one of the few ways, outside of actually selling products, that webmasters make money from their web sites. For some webmasters, an affiliate marketing program provides a rapid way to make money online. This is due to...
- White papers 2008-02-27
- Secrets To Affiliate Millionaires: 7 Top Ways To Find The Best Selling Affiliate Product Online
- Hot products in the Internet will give you chances of earning big affiliate commissions online. You just have to know the right approach, discovering and choosing the right product that you will sell online will be the key for you to start earning money online. Excellent strategies are also needed...
- White papers 2008-01-22
- Making Affiliate Online Marketing Programs Work
- Affiliate marketing relates to the linking of a Website features to another Website’s online catalog. Web marketers have long been struggling with affiliate marketing. The paper argues that the level of effectiveness of an affiliate marketing program depends on the degree of efficiency with which it is implemented on ground....
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Affiliate Marketing Overview
- "The system works by creating a sales force network rather than an expensive media or advertising campaign. The affiliate either shares in the revenue generated by sales, or earns revenue for providing sales leads. As a result that affiliate has a business interest in the success of the sales promotion....
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Google Launches Affiliate Advertising Network
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Amazon AMZN, watch out. Earlier today, Google GOOG launched an affiliate ad network. Or, rather, it rebranded Performics, the affiliate ad network that came along with its purchase of DoubleClick, as the “Google Affiliate Network.” As with other affiliate networks such as Amazon’s, participating Website publishers...
- External links 2008-06-30
- 5 Golden Rules For Affiliate Marketers
- According to Forrester Research, the affiliate marketing sector is set to grow in Europe alone from almost ?131 billion in 2007 to around ?263 billion in 2011. But in order to maximise success and follow best practise, advertisers need to follow rules. This paper provides five golden rules for affiliate...
- White papers 2007-12-04
- Selling Products And Services-Find The Best Affiliate Programs
- Marketing products and services through the Internet is unquestionably easier and more rewarding compared to traditional marketing methods. With the millions of people worldwide getting online each day, there's an enormous possibility for a merchant to sell his products and generate huge income. However, merchandisers are not the only ones...
- White papers 2008-04-27
- The Rise Of Vietnam's Affiliate Network
- With healthy socio-economic conditions ahead, Vietnam's e-commerce is primed for significant growth. That will in turn fuel the country's affiliate channel. At the moment, no region is growing faster than Vietnam, with its greatest strength being the educated and young population that is open to learning and adopting new ways...
- White papers 2008-02-12
- Ebay Crusher: How To Make Money On Ebay Selling...Nothing
- The eBay Crusher method is a new, never before used angle on affiliate marketing, combining the power of one of the most trafficked buying and selling sites in the world, eBay, and meshing it with online affiliate marketing. The problem for affiliate marketers, however, lies in just how to do...
- White papers 2008-04-28
- Should You Add an Affiliate Program to the Marketing Mix?
- This article defines about Affiliate Program used in market mix. In short, affiliates are "commissioned sales people" who promote a merchant's product or service on the Internet. In return, they are paid a commission for each customer they bring in. Each affiliate is given a unique string of code...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Bundling Offers Can Boost Revenue
- From the executive summary: ‘An interesting way to use an affiliate program for a Web site is to have a free offer from an affiliate program bundled together with a company’s own offer. One of the best types of affiliate programs to pair with one’s site's offer is a pay-per-lead...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Affiliate Marketing - Not Just Selling Someone Else's Product
- Affiliate sales are your ticket to earning a commission on the sale of goods or services provided by other people. Just as each person has unique strengths and skills, many companies can provide excellent products and services, but have a problem when it comes to marketing them. They have built...
- White papers 2008-01-12
- Profiting From Seasonal Coupons And Hot Deals!
- This article focuses on retail advertising where scheme like seasonal coupons is used to increase the sales. Now is a great time to increase affiliate commissions by offering your visitors seasonal coupons, special offers and deals available exclusively to the Internet bargain hunter. Merchant and affiliate sites alike...
- White papers 2001-06-13
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