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Is Affiliate Marketing the same with MLM?
December 17, 2007 |
The simplest and cheapest way to advertise today is known as Affiliation. Affiliate Marketing is a form of revenue share , a way to advertise online that has been proven over time to work really well. The way it works is pretty simple. The amount of clicks that converts to the amount of actual sales. It benefits the affiliates and the company/individual wishing to sell the products.
Affiliate marketing is not considered a MLM. The person who are an affiliate will be earning money and he /she are not required to register or have anyone signed up to the program under the affiliate. It’s simply a buy /purchase process.
There are some pros and cons to affiliate marketing, but most of the advantages weigh out the disadvantages. The only real disadvantage of the program is that it is not easily scalable, and many bad management techniques have led to adware, false advertising, spam or “spamdexing” - which is a website that consists only of advertising, and no real content. These kinds of sites often just produce pop-ups and link to further types of useless sites. But because of the rise of blogs and the like, these kinds of issues are getting less.
Val Yohan
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- Simply Affiliate Marketing - December 14th, 2007
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