How will refering new Internet affiliates to an
Internet affiliate marketing program make me money in the future? Thats
where a second tier Internet affiliate marketing program works like
magic!
Internet Affiliates are getting cleverer by the
day. So these days, Internet affiliates know the difference between the
different types of website traffic they can get paid for. There are a
lot of definitions though – CPM, CPC, CPA, CPL, CPD and many more.
CPM is impressions, when the publisher (the website owner) gets paid
every time a banner is shown.
CPC is clicks, where the publisher (or email
marketer and other Internet marketers) gets paid every time a banner or
text link is clicked upon.
The other ways of getting paid are grouped
together under the term performance marketing – and this is where the
term Internet affiliate is most commonly used as well.
An Internet affiliate is a marketer who sends
visitors to another website using a variety of techniques (such as
placing banners or text links on their own website, buying sponsored
listings on search engines, email marketing and many other different
techniques) and gets paid when an action happens. This action can be a
lead (CPL stands for Cost per Lead), a Sale (CPS stands for Cost per
Sale), a download (CPD stands for Cost per download) and many other
variations.
Some in the Internet marketing industry refer to
performance based marketing as CPA (cost per acquisition), although the
term is also sometimes used for specific types of campaigns such as
leads or sales.
Now that we have got over the hard part, the rest
is easy to understand.
The Internet affiliate gets paid for sending
visitors to a specific landing page where an action happens – either a
lead, a sale, a download or some other sort of action that the
advertiser requires. As an example, some advertisers are looking to
build up their databases, so they pay for each opt in email address
they receive, others want leads from specific locations, so they pay
for zip codes, and then try convince the visitors after they fill in
their zip code, to fill in a more detailed lead form.
The common denominator is that the Internet
affiliate gets paid when an action happens.
A Second Tier Internet affiliate marketing program
is simply finding new Internet marketers to sign up under you to do
EXACTLY what you are doing – sending visitors to different offers and
getting paid when the visitors perform some sort of action. So why
would you want other Internet marketers to sign up under you to promote
the same offers? Simple – you get paid a percentage of the amount the
Internet affiliate you refer gets paid? Sounds complicated?
Do not worry, it is not hard to understand. As an
example, say Alex promotes 5 different offers on a single Internet
affiliate marketing network. He gets paid for every lead, sale, email
and zip code he generates from these different offers. Alex now tells
Michel about the Internet affiliate marketing network and gets Michel
to sign up using a banner or text link that has Alex’s referral code
built into it. Michel now signs up to the Internet affiliate marketing
network under Alex and starts promoting various offers and advertisers
from the Internet affiliate marketing network. These offers DO NOT have
to be the same offers that Alex is promoting. Michel can promote ANY of
the offers on the Internet affiliate marketing network.
And this is the best part…
For any amounts that Michel gets paid, Alex
receives a percentage of the amount over and above what Michel gets
paid. So if Michel gets paid $1000 in Month 1, and the second tier
Internet affiliate marketing program is paying 5%, then Alex would
receive $50 just for referring Michel.
But it gets even better…
Some second tier affiliate marketing networks pay
LIFETIME commissions. So Alex would not get a referral commission just
for a month or a year – he receives it FOR ALL TIME.
If Michel becomes a super Internet affiliate and
starts generating HUGE commissions every month, Alex can just sit back
and collect the checks as he referred him.
There are 3 important things to know when finding
Internet affiliates to sign up under you on second tier affiliate
programs:
Is the Internet affiliate marketing program or
affiliate marketing network credible, has proper tracking so your
referrals are correctly tracked, has good campaigns and offers for the
Internet affiliates to promote so they actually do make money, and do
they pay timeously? Assuming that the Internet affiliate marketing
program or network is good, what percentage do they pay you on amounts
that your referrals get paid? All programs vary so compare different
programs to see what the industry standard is.
How long do you continue receiving referral
commissions for? Some pay for a month, some for the lifetime, and of
course there are many variations in between.
So do your homework and find a second tier program that can make you
easy money long in the future for the work you are doing today.
Article Source:
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About the Author
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