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ALTERNATIVE REVENUE SOURCES
You see those credit card banners and banners of certain florists all over the web, and you wonder how they can afford all that advertising. The answer is simple: It's free. Self-styled Webmasters all over the world are so eager to ride the e-commerce gravy train, they will put banners all over their sites for nothing more than a promise of commisions on sales. Should the campaign prove successful, a website generating several thousand dollars in sales for a large company might earn its keepers a few hundred dollars.
Do we feel that affiliate programs are a bad thing? Certainly not! Do we think they are the road to riches? Again, certainly not! If you do get rich through an affiliate program, we'd be happy to hear about it at I-Net Promo Central! If you make $8,000.00 in a year, we might even do a feature about your website. At best, affiliate programs seem to be a fairly convenient way to possibly offset the costs of maintaining a website. At worst, they are a way for large corporations to get a whole lot of little people with big dreams to go out and hustle product for them at no cost.
If you have a website that is designed to promote your body-shop, for example, banners for a vintage car dealer or Hot Rod Magazine, might be unobtrusive and even somewhat successful on your website. A poetry archive website, that featured ads from a bookstore, a flowershop, and FreeShop.com (Because everyone wants something for nothing!) found that the bookstore was the most "clicked-on" banner.
In conclusion, we feel that one or two companies, whose offerings are closely related to those you are promoting, may well offer some ad revenue for your site. If chosen with care, they may even be an enhancement to your website. If, on the other hand, you are someone who enjoys graphic designing, coming up with catchy slogans, perhaps missed your big break at the ad agency a few years back, you may wish to make a hobby of web design and put together sites designed to push certain products or services.
Following, you will find the only affiliate program we are comfortable recommending. They were chosen because they are a pleasure to deal with and seem to be equally concerned with the needs of the small business person on the web as they are with the larger corporate clients they are promoting. The following company also offers a wide variety of merchants you can represent on your site.
| This company serves as a go between for the webmaster and companies interested in promoting their goods and services on the world wide web. Once you sign up, you can select from a variety of companies under various classifications, add more merchants as your website grows, and remove those that aren't selling. There is a series of convenient on-line forms that make it easy for you to link to specific products offered by the merchants, use textual or graphical links, and references to numerous marketing resources. From the monthly affiates' newsletter to the user-friendly on-line account access, this company does not leave you out in the cold! Click on the image at the left to find out more! |
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