What are Affiliate Programs?

Years ago if a person wanted to launch a website, ones had to know HTML to create it. It was easy to search for guides, tutorials on the net… its still easy nowadays. But there is time for everything and today it’s not necessary to know how to code because the virtual world is overloaded with different types of ready-to-use web based software. Everything you need is just to find out the niche you are interested in.

And when you come up to website’s monetization, you search for a way that suits you and your website well. Well, this post is about the way that is called affiliate programs.

Since Intelliants sell affiliate tracking software named xooPartner, it is quite reasonable to start posting entries about this type of topics.

So, what are affiliate programs? Well, it’s a really popular option to benefit your website. Let me explain how.

For a model situation, imagine you have something that you want to sell online through your website. Let it be an e-book and its price is going to be $40. So, to increase your sales you need to promote your e-book, right? For sure, you might want to use different promotional ways. And here affiliates come. --What are affiliates?-- you may ask.

Affiliates are people who agree to promote your e-book. Not for free, of course. A percentage of the sale price is the affiliate’s salary. The usual rate goes up to more or less 50%. Now look, if your affiliate sells your e-book, both of you get $20. It’s better than nothing, right? It’s a great deal in fact; you don’t pay a dime until your affiliate sells your e-book.

Now imagine you have 10 affiliates and each of them sells 5 copies of your e-book. Do a simple math and calculate what your income is…