Affiliate Marketing: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Affiliate Marketing

  • the use of affiliate programs

Wiktionary Definition for: Affiliate Marketing

  • A specialized form of marketing where an advertiser seeks to advertise or sell products or services through an affiliate network.

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,...
Tags: DiscoveryArticles.com, Marketing Research, Marketing
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...
Tags: DiscoveryArticles.com, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2008-01-06
Super Affiliate Marketing Secrets
As an ongoing way to create income opportunities, affiliate marketing has captured the imagination and attention of a number of entrepreneurs over the last decade. This paper has some background on the development of affiliate marketing and how it continues to evolve nowadays. At its core, affiliate marketing is all...
Tags: Income, Free-eBooks.net, Marketing Research, Marketing
Book chapters 2008-05-17
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...
Tags: iMedia Communications, Marketing Research, Retail, Marketing
White papers 2007-08-28
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...
Tags: EzineArticles.com, Time Management, Marketing Research, Productivity, Marketing
White papers 2006-04-02
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....
Tags: Primedia Inc., Marketing Research, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet
White papers 2001-01-01
JupiterResearch Finds That Online Affiliate Marketing Spending Will Continue to Grow, Reaching $3.3 Billion in 2012
NEW YORK -- JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, has found that affiliate marketing continues to play a key role in online marketers' ability to reach and acquire customers. In 2008, online marketers will spend $2.1 billion on affiliate marketing...
Tags: Jupiter Research, MARKETING
Research articles 2008-06-16
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...
Tags: Program, American Marketing Association, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales Force Management, Branding, Sales, Marketing
White papers 2002-01-01
MTV. (People & Calendar).(Brief Article)
AMY RAMSDEN was promoted to manager of affiliate marketing for MTV. Ramsden, who joined MTV Affiliate Marketing in 1997, previously served as marketing coordinator. MTV ... AMY RAMSDEN was promoted to manager of affiliate marketing for MTV. Ramsden, who joined MTV Affiliate Marketing in...
Tags: marketing, MTV
Research articles 2002-10-07
META Group Expands Corporate Affiliate Program: Launches Web Affiliate Marketing Initiative; Appoints Jay Gaines to Lead Web Affiliate Marketing Efforts
Business & Technology Editors
Tags: META Group Inc., Web
Research articles 2000-05-22
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...
Tags: Webmaster, DiscoveryArticles.com, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2008-02-27
Hilton to launch affiliate marketing programme
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-9 December 2005-Hilton to launch affiliate marketing programmeC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Hilton International, an operating division of the Hilton Group plc, has announced an agreement with TradeDoubler, a provider of online marketing and sales solutions, to establish an affiliate marketing programme. According to the company, the partnership...
Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., MARKETING
Research articles 2005-12-09
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...
Tags: Marketing, Affiliate, Benefit, Web Site, DiscoveryArticles.com, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet
White papers 2008-01-18
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...
Tags: Affiliate, Agency, Media, Merchant, iMedia Communications, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2007-08-13
Newegg.com Selects Affiliate Marketing Partner Commission Junction; Top 10 Online Retailer Selects Global Industry Leader for Its First-Ever Outsourced Affiliate Marketing Program
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Top internet retailer Newegg Inc., the operator of the award-winning www.newegg.com web site, is launching its affiliate marketing program with ValueClick Inc.'s (Nasdaq:VCLK) Commission Junction, the leading global provider of affiliate marketing solutions.
Tags: outsource
Research articles 2006-09-19
Gemstar-TV Guide.(People & Calendar)(Brief Article)
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.'s TV Guide Affiliate Sales and Marketing division reported several appointments: SHARON METZ was elevated to vice president, national accounts; RYAN McDERMOTT was upped to director, affiliate sales and marketing; ANDY CLYDE was named director, affiliate sales and marketing, Southeast; and LAURIE SILVERMAN...
Tags: director, MARKETING, SALES, TV Guide
Research articles 2004-03-22
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...
Tags: Product, DiscoveryArticles.com, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2008-04-27
DoubleClick Performics Expands Affiliate Marketing Suite, Offer Self Managed Option for Emerging Advertisers and Outsourced Program Managers
MIAMI -- DoubleClick Performics (www.performics.com), the performance marketing division of DoubleClick Inc., today unveiled AffiliateDirect at Affiliate Summit in Miami. Now, for the first time, emerging online retailers and program managers not associated with DoubleClick Performics can license the company's industry leading affiliate marketing technology and access the DoubleClick Performics...
Tags: DoubleClick Inc., outsource
Research articles 2007-07-09
NFL Network.(People & Calendar)(names Jamia Bigalow its director of affiliate marketing)(Brief Article)
JAMIA BIGALOW has been named director of affiliate marketing for NFL Network. She comes from ABC ... JAMIA BIGALOW has been named director of affiliate marketing for NFL Network. She comes from ABC Cable Networks Group, and had previously worked as director, affiliate marketing...
Tags: marketing, network, NFL
Research articles 2003-09-15
FreeShop.com Partners With Be Free To Expand Affiliate Program
FreeShop.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSHP), a leading online direct marketing network, and Be Free, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRE), the leader in performance marketing, today announced a strategic alliance to launch an expanded version of FreeShop's affiliate marketing program, offering members increased marketing capabilities. "Since its inception, FreeShop's affiliate program...
Tags: Be Free, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., SALES
Research articles 1970-01-01
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