What is meant by affiliate marketing?

[Gary]

Affiliate marketing is when you get paid a commission for promoting someone else product or service, in the offline world they are called sales representatives.

[watson123]

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as 'retailer' or 'brand'), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as 'the affiliate'), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity to warrant a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third party vendors.

[Jestin051]

"Affiliate Marketing" is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitors or customers brought about by the affiliate's own marketing effort.

[Harry Mark]

Affiliate marketing is a new term and it is a technique or a tool for internet marketing. When you join any affiliate marketing company then you become affiliate or associate of that company. In affiliate marketing you become affiliate or associate for selling products or services of the company. When consumers buy products or services from your link or id, then you get some percentage of commission. That is called affiliate marketing.

[chander sood]

Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn huge fortune from the
internet.It is online marketing, which can help you in making your
online business profitable. It is one of the best make money online
tools. Affiliate marketing is a good way to selling your goods and
products.

[masterdrugstore]

It is a type of performance-based online- marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor .

[brainpulse]

Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.

There are a number of forms of these types of promotions but in most cases they involve you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something.

Other variations on this are where you earn an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action – for example when they sign up for something and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.

[seofuture]

Affiliate marketing is one of the hottest marketing techniques and one of the best ways to earn money online ! You might think that its a big load of garbage and full of fluff but it really not so you better change your attitude on that one because you too could become an affiliate and earn fortunes online and then look back and think, what a fool I was thinking that affiliate marketing is crap. That's exactly what I thought too when I first heard about affiliate marketing.

[blessy_smith]

Affiliate marketing is one of the internet marketing process in which there is an agreement between a site owners and merchants who wants to sell their products by putting on web site.

[hitsandy]

The more over the affiliated marketing is also acting like this. Affiliate marketing methods include organic search engine optimization (SEO), paid search engine marketing (PPC - Pay Per Click), e-mail marketing.

[jsmichael6]

In simple term affiliate marketing means marketing for others.

[albertsmith]

Affiliate marketing is an approach of promoting the goods or products by a third party. That 3rd party is known as ‘publisher’. Publishers promote and market the products of manufacturers by publishing the ads of the products on their websites, blogs, e-mails or by ‘Pay Per Click’ programs. If someone buys the products or goods then the publisher gets the agreed commission.

[ewebmaster]

Affiliate marketing is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.

[amittrch]

Hi,
I am agree with your answer,really you provides best definition of affiliate marketing.

[sabrinasai]

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization (SEO), paid search engine marketing (PPC - Pay Per Click), e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.

Affiliate marketing is commonly confused with referral marketing, as both forms of marketing use third parties to drive sales to the retailer.However, both are distinct forms of marketing and the main difference between them is that affiliate marketing relies purely on financial motivations to drive sales while referral marketing relies on trust and personal relationships to drive sales