I’m in San Francisco for ad:tech right now and we’ve closed out the first day of the exhibit hall.
I’ve video blogged the cross country trek from Newark, NJ to San Francisco for ad:tech 2007.
Lot’s of action is going on at ad:tech where we’ve got a booth for Affiliate Summit for the first time.
From the [...]
How can an affiliate be expected to start creating sites (each domain/hosting is around $100 for 2 years) when a profit has not even been generated from the first site? I was thinking I would launch ten domains each selling different products.
One thing I’d like to correct with your cost estimate is that it [...]
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There is a new Performics today - actually, it’s DoubleClick Performics, rather than Performics Inc., the performance marketing division of DoubleClick.
What to make of the change being unveiled today at Ad-Tech in San Francisco? Cynics will say this was is a response to punidts suggesting an imminent Performics dissolution.
According to the announcement, they have [...]
If affiliate marketing is based on a single thought, it could be this:
Lots of successful businesses didn’t succeed by relying solely on direct sales to customers. They outsourced at least some of the sales process to other parties. This enabled a wider product distribution in a cost-effective manner. Hence, we have affiliate marketers, and we have resellers.
Reseller programs, like affiliate programs, promote products made by somebody else. Both programs provide a great service to the product manufacturer by getting the word out about a product to an ever-growing target audience.
This leads some to think that the two are synonymous. But don’t be fooled. Resellers and affiliate marketers act on vastly different scales.
Marketing a merchant’s product is an affiliate marketer’s only job. An affiliate attracts the buying customer to his/her site, but then shepherds that customer to the merchant’s website. From there, the merchant handles everything related to completing the transaction. Resellers do more than that – they try to persuade that customer to purchase directly through them.
Resellers work with merchants under a business-to-business wholesaler relationship. Under this relationship, a reseller purchases the product from the merchant at a greatly reduced price. The reseller then sells the product to customers, usually at a discount from the retail price.
The reseller receives all the profit from the product sales. And the reseller handles all the transaction and customer service details, including credit card charges, product support, and product returns.
Many businesses use resellers – including, for instance, computer software manufacturers. (I oughta know; in a previous life, I worked for a software reseller.) And make no mistake – in terms of potential, reselling can be more lucrative than affiliate marketing.
But reselling is also riskier. Once a reseller buys the product from the merchant, that reseller is under pressure to sell it, or risk eating the cost. And once the product is sold, it could be returned by the customer. Or the customer could initiate a chargeback (a refund of the purchase price through the credit card provider), for which the reseller takes the hit. Affiliate marketers usually face none of these kinds of risks.
So, are you a reseller? Or are you an affiliate marketer? Whichever you are depends on what your goals are and what you’re willing to accept in terms of risk and reward. Given where you’re reading this post, I think I know your answer.
The culture of Internet marketing is sometimes warped. When reading some message boards and blogs, I get the impression that too much is never enough for many.
I was reminded of this ethos recently when I declined an opportunity to speak at a conference, because I have plans for a family vacation at the same time.
The [...]
EPOIA Interactive Studios has launched the PodshowCreator ContentPay service, in association with Amazon.com’s Associates program, where podcasters can earn revenue with a customizable storefront that showcases Amazon.com products relevant to the content of the podcast.
Podcasters can earn up to 10% in referral fees from revenue generated through their ContentPay-based storefronts.
See a sample of a ContentPay [...]
I was just catching up on the big affiliate marketing stories at BUMPzee! and saw quite a few on the topic of Google Checkout in the UK.
The Affiliate Marketing Blog from Clarke Duncan asks the question, “Google Checkout UK - is commission being tracked?”
Clarke goes on to say…
Affiliate sales are not tracking, Affiliates are losing [...]
The April 2007 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine begins with how you can incorporate e-mail marketing into your affiliate business, and winds up with utilizing RSS to make sure your messages get delivered.
The first article, “How to Be a Good E-mail Affiliate,” features representatives from a top merchant describing the criteria they use when [...]
Free Beer from Affiliate Summit on April 25, originally uploaded by Affiliate.
On April 25 at Ad-Tech in San Francisco, Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins will be pouring free beers at the Affiliate Summit booth (#6452).
Shawn has been working towards this moment since he was a fraternity pledge in 1988, so don’t miss it.