Many consumers are influenced in their buying decisions by information available to them online. You can use this piece of information to improve your success with affiliate programs by implementing them into an E-zine Marketing Plan. Affiliate Programs are as old as business itself. The concept is simple. The merchant pays the affiliate for sales or leads based on referrals, click-throughs or sales.
Affiliate programs are a win-win situation.
Merchants can quickly and easily develop a sales force on the Internet, and affiliates have instant products or services to sell on their Websites, thereby adding another revenue stream to their businesses. Research from major firms tell us that the most popular purchases on the Internet are computers, books, software, music and travel related services. Making big gains are apparel sales. You can find books and software to match every target market on the Internet. And pretty much everybody wears and buys clothes.