Upon purchase, the originating Web site gets a piece of the sale without lifting a finger. The insight came about as 'wow, if we offer some back-end incentive and a commission to these sites, it makes them more prone to step up links. One of the largest affiliate services is LinkExchange, which matches merchants to affiliate partners. Alan Shusterman and John Lee, co-directors of LinkExchange's product management, have found that while many merchants want to build a huge affiliate network, they also want to monitor those affiliate sites. LinkExchange helps affiliates as well.
Affiliate programs can work for companies of all sizes.
CashPile evaluates each of the more than 700 participating programs on features such as commission, accounting, advice, and overall design. It also notifies the affiliates of new programs. It's not worth doing anymore. Not according to CDNow's Kadetsky. We capture the impulse buys.