How Affiliate Programs Work
Affiliate programs involve two key players – the merchant and the affiliate. The merchant engages the affiliate to promote their products and/or services on their behalf.
The affiliate undertakes to promote and sell the merchant’s products/services in exchange for a share of the income from those sales.
Affiliates can be paid on many different bases including pay-per-lead (for each person who signs up to a subscriber’s list), pay-per-referral (for each person who pays as a member of the merchant’s program), pay-per-sale and pay-per-click (paid for each click on a merchant’s advertisement).
Affiliate commissions can be one-off or involve recurring monthly income. For more detail go to:www.clickmagnet-secrets.com. Commissions can also be paid over a number of levels – e.g. you can be paid for a person you recruit to a program and also for each person they recruit. This is described as affiliate commission over two levels (or two-tier commissions). Some programs involve payment over multiple levels.
