Affiliate Marketing-insights and Achievements

Author: Lalita Negi

The new age economy is running by the marketing and advertising. Every product needs advertising and for that Internet is a big medium these days. Now, affiliate marketing is that system of advertising and promotion in which a website A agrees to feature some links from another website B and in return the website A gets a percentage from the sales generated. Here A is affiliate and B is the merchant.



Although, the process of affiliate marketing seems very simple and profitable but it is not that easy. It needs expertise and knowledge to practice it. The implementation of the process requires effort and skill and this kind of advertisement is free from risks. Nowadays it is popular among the website startups. The merchant can do various kind of advertisements like banners, images, text links, audio-video presentations and many more. Of late it has been very successful for online consumer product retailers and financial service providers.



This system of promotion has been very successful and there is a reason behind it. As you know that among the Internet users (1.15 Billion worldwide till 2007. Source: The eMarketer), a huge population is doing online shopping and other activities. A lot of activities, apart from Email checking, are happening over the Internet like people are buying and selling products, paying the bills, searching property and matrimony etc. These people are the causes of the success of affiliate marketing.



In fact, the total sales generated through UK affiliate networks in 2006 was £2.16 billion in the UK alone (Source: e-Consultancy Affiliate Networks Buyers Guide 2006) and the UK market for affiliate marketing grew by an estimated 45% last year, taking the total value of online sales generated by this channel in 2007 to more than £3 billion. (Source: e-Consultancy Affiliate Networks Buyers Guide 2008).



This stature of growth of affiliate marketing is mind-blowing and it is growing day by day. Various online marketing companies are striving to become a big affiliate network. As competition is fierce so only the strong would survive.

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