Affiliate Earnings and Market Strategy - Regaining Lost Opportunities
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The opportunity to affiliates lies in the power of "lost" visitors to increase their earnings.
For example, a successful website may attract 1000 visitors a day and recommend a related affiliate product to them. Of these 1000 visitors, only a small number, perhaps about 5 visitors, would be interested enough to buy the product. The other 995 visitors end up as "lost" visitors, of no value to the affiliate.
However, if the affiliate program paid commission on multiple levels, some of the 995 visitors (and also the 5 who bought products), would probably sign up as sub-affiliates of the original affiliate. When they in turn recommend the affiliate products and make sales to their friends and to visitors of their own websites, the original referring affiliate will also get paid a referral commission for these sales.
Depending on the number of levels of referral commissions the merchant offers, the original affiliate may even make commissions on subsequent levels of sales!
Through such affiliate programs, affiliates end up benefiting from the viral multiplication of their commissions generated through visitors who would otherwise be of no value to them.
While some people have compared these multi level affiliate programs with the MLM programs which flood the net, web merchants have been careful to draw a clear distinction in that as with single level affiliate programs, no joining fees, training fees, nor "start-up" fees are ever required. Since no money is ever required to participate in these multi level affiliate programs, no money can ever be made by simply recruiting people to join these programs.
The value of these programs lies in their ability to unlock the huge earnings potential in the large numbers of web visitors who would otherwise be "lost" to affiliates.
If you already participate in affiliate programs, simply switch to a multi level affiliate program and watch your affiliate earnings multiply.
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