AFFILIATE MARKETING
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR AFFILIATE MARKETING (FAQ)
WHAT IS AFFILIATE.
Affiliate is a person who connect to a company, organisation or another person for a particular movement.
WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKET.
Affiliate market is a system where by an online stores provide the links of their products to internet publishers or bloggers in older to direct customers from their blogs, websites or social media pages into the stores, and any customer who comes to click the link of that store from any blog, website or social media page to go to store and buy a product, that person will make the owner of that specific blog, website or social media page to recieve a commission from the store owner.
STRUCTURE OF AFFILIATE MARKETING.
The affiliate marketing has four core players which enables the processes of affiliate marketing to take place. And the four core of affiliate marketing are;
1. The merchant, also known as,The Retailer and The Brand
2. Network
3. Publisher
4. Customer
1. MERCHANT.
The merchant is a person who run an online store and sale only the commodities produced by other people in his online store.
The merchant does not keep physical commodities of companies in his online merchant store, but he only sale the commodities of different companies in his online merchant store through banners. And when customer buy a commodity to his store he only deducts the commission, and after that he send the lest of money together with the details of customer to the manufacturer company of commodity purchased. And after few period of time the manufacturer company of the commodity that is purchased they end up ship or deliver the commodity to the customer.
The merchant attracts more customers to his online merchant store through the establishment of affiliate marketing program. He allows affiliates to sign to his program, and he deducts and share the commission he make from different companies with affiliates.
RETAILER
A Retailer is a person who makes a purchase or order of commodities from manufacturer companies and sales them to customers or consumers through their online stores.
The retailer only differs with the merchant simply because he own and keep the commodities he sale in his online store
Retailer keep commodities in his online stores, and when someone buy a commodity from his store, he deliver or ship the commodities to the customers himself.
Many retail online stores have their own affiliate marketing program, and they do give commission to the affiliates who sign their affiliate marketing program.
BRAND
Brand is any company that can produce commodities or products own its own from scratch. Many brand companies have their own affiliate marketing programs, and any affiliate who join them he do receive commission direct from company. Example of this is Canon Company.
NETWORK
The function of network to affiliate marketing program is to bridge the connection between The merchant, Publisher and Customer in order the processes of affiliate marketing to take place. Example of network to the affiliate marketing program is Internet
PUBLISHER
Publisher is also known as an affiliate, this person is the one who organises or takes care of links of affiliate marketing from his or her website, blog or social media pages to the affiliate marketing program companies.
EXAMPLES OF AFFILIATE MARKET COMPANIES
ShareASale, Amazon Associates, CJ
ShareASale Commission Junction ClickBank JvZoo Impact Radius Refersion Amazon Associates Growsumo Rakuten Avangate Affiliate Window TradeDoubler vCommission Flipkart Affiliate Alibaba Affiliates AliExpress Affiliates iTunes Affiliates eBay Partner Network
