The difference between mlm and affiliate marketing
Okay so not many people seem to see any difference and see affiliate marketing as a dirty word in comparison because all of these get rich quick, mlm and pyramid schemes. The things where you pay a nominal fee, recruit others to pay a nominal fee, probably for some useless thing, just to earn commission from selling the product to people who don’t want it, and hope that they can earn from a scheme which ultimately relies on a limitless amount of people, when it is doomed to failure from the start, only guaranteeing the creator of the scheme a profit.
Affiliate marketing on the other hand is quite different, although some of these schemes will try to make out they’re affiliate marketing thus sullying the name further. Real affiliate marketing, in simple terms is where an individual is a freelance sales person, they do not get paid a salary by a company, but instead increase sales to whatever companies they choose to market by simply creating good quality sites which add value or functionality in some way to encourage further visitors to purchase the products. They may work through a variety of different methods from pay per click, seo, you get the idea.
What people miss is that affiliate marketing is working to create sales for big name companies, some affiliates even sell through high street shops. They’re not get rich quick schemes, they involve hard work to create a user friendly value adding site which will attract the customer to purchase a product through a trusted site.
I will write more later, busy stuff to do etc, just wanted to get this out there.
Tags: affiliate, commission, marketing, mlm, sales, scheme, seo
June 14th, 2009 at 12:57 am
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June 15th, 2009 at 6:20 am
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June 15th, 2009 at 11:55 am
yes katty, but if you want to tell people about this article you can post links to this page.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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July 6th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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September 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 am
*removed as spam*
New name and shame service for spammers comments, this was a particularly bad one with a whole sales speil as well as links, and is thus deserving of being named and shamed as a spammer
September 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Hi. I read a few of your other posts and wanted to know if you would be interested in exchanging blogroll links?
September 8th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
If you wish to exchange links you would have to provide more information like the link of your blog, and I would then be able to see if I was interested in a link exchange. Visitor stats etc would be a bonus which might swing it either way.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Major spammer spamming with 20 million porn links
September 21st, 2009 at 11:27 am
I think your blog need a new wordpress template.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
September 21st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
linda markez if I was going to use another template dont you think I would have already?
Morison dony, no but you can link to my article if you want people to read it.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Hello everyone!
(the long sales speil for a spam scheme was deleted… Does nobody read the actual post and realise comments like this arent welcome?)
September 25th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Hello everyone!
(This author has repetitive spam syndrome, attempted to spam with this crap before, deleted not welcome here, so why try again, idiot)
September 30th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Hello everyone!
(right I need to block your IP address it appears)
January 16th, 2010 at 9:29 am
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