Affiliate Marketing Network

Monday, March 10, 2008

Redefining the Affiliate Marketing Network

In a conversation with some successful affiliate marketers, I came to know that some users actually loathe the term “Affiliate Marketing Network”. I tried to find the reasons, involving people in discussions and asking them to write their comments. What I did find, might be interesting for the marketers as well as the affiliate marketing industry.

The word “Affiliate” does not ring the right bells to people whose first language is not English. Affiliate marketing, affiliate network, affiliate services; these terms remain to some extent incomprehensible. Because of this reason, some people do not even try to find what affiliate marketing is about. Especially to publishers it continues to remain a renaissance mystery until the time they get excited by the offers and click the advertised messages. In a normal communication process, we call it noise.

It is very unfortunate that Internet lingo (the language style used by users while chatting or messaging) spreads like fire and terms like affiliate marketing get pushed to the forlorn corners of our memory. If I tell you that “Video Productions” and “Affiliate Marketing” are correlated, would your meaning or understanding of the term change or modify to a bit.

Leaving neologisms, Affiliate marketing is an upcoming business occupation. An affiliate is a web site owner who is involved in advertising and publishing the content of an advertiser. The content can be anything from a textual link to a video upload. Affiliate marketing network is an institution that helps web site publishers and advertisers to come forward and be involved in the marketing process.

Affiliate marketing providers do face a number of challenges. From educating the masses about the business process and developing tools that can help the affiliates to deliver effectively, the providers have to look at everything.

Affiliate marketing is the right answer to the oversized budget for marketing campaigns. As people tend to use more Internet content, the future of affiliate marketing looks quite bright.

Labels: ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]



<< Home