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Affiliate Program
A system where a merchant or advertiser pays other sites a commission for sending visitors to their site. Commissions may be
calculated per click, per lead or
per sale.
- If you are selling your own products (or simply need more traffic), you can set up an affiliate
program to draw traffic to your site.
- If you are looking to make money from your site, you can join affiliate programs and earn money
when your visitors click or buy from these advertising links. Most good affiliate programs are free
to join.
- If you sell advertising space on your web space, you can use affiliate
programs to earn additional income, or for unsold inventory.
- If you sell your own products, there is nothing to stop you recommending related
products (via affiliate links) to your customers.
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Affiliate management software packages:
- GroundBreak
This is a really nice program, which doesn't cost too much and which a lot of merchants are using.
I've seen a lot of GroundBreak-based affiliate programs and overall I'd say this is extremely
flexible and rock-solid. I'm using affiliate networks to run our affiliate programs right now, but
if we switch to our own software, this will be the script we switch to.
- AssocTrac
This is Corey Rudl's affiliate script, and he uses it for his own program, and I've seen it used
for a few others. Having spoken to a few merchants using this system, it does seem to be a fairly
flexible and solid program, and being one of Corey Rudl's scripts, it comes with a plethora of
bonuses, marketing tools and information, etc. (check the site for details as this may change from time to time).
At the time of writing, this script is more expensive than the main alternatives - whether it's worth the
extra is for you to decide.
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