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© 2001 ClubMom, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Partner Up: Affiliate Marketing in ActionShawn Collins – Affiliate Manager, ClubMom, Inc.
June 21, 2001
Sponsored by: babcock | jenkins
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Outline What is Affiliate Marketing?
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn
Income
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Affiliate Program: a merchant pays a
commission to an affiliate for generating
clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text
link located on the affiliate’s site.From “Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants”
What is Affiliate Marketing?
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Affiliate: a Web site owner that earns a
commission for referring clicks, leads, or
sales to a merchant.From “Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants”
What is Affiliate Marketing?
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Merchant: an online business that markets
and sells goods or services. Merchants
establish affiliate programs as a cost-
effective method to get consumers to
purchase a product, register for a service, fill
out a form, or visit a Web site.From “Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants”
What is Affiliate Marketing?
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Win / Win Situation
Merchants gain desired
actions or consumer sales.
Affiliates earn money.
No Free Lunch – It Takes…
Hard Work
Know How
Time
What is Affiliate Marketing?
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History of Affiliate Marketing
The Amazon Associates Program,
launched in July 1996, was not the first.
CDNow came first with their buyweb
program in November 1994.
AutoWeb.com (October 1995),
Kbkids.com/BrainPlay.com (January
1996), and EPage (April 1996) all pre-
date the Amazon program.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
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History of Affiliate Marketing
LinkShare was the first affiliate
solution provider when they
launched in 1996.
Be Free also started in 1996.
Commission Junction launched in
November 1998.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
More info. on affiliate solution providers at www.affiliatemanager.net/asp.htm
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History of Affiliate Marketing
First affiliate program directory was
Refer-it, launched in December
1997.
2-tier, AssociatePrograms.com,
CashPile, and ReveNews launched
in 1998.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
More info. on affiliate directories at www.affiliatemanager.net/directories.htm
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Affiliate Marketing Models
Pay-per-click: affiliate is paid per visitor
they send.
Pay-per-lead: affiliate is paid if a visitor it
refers submits certain information.
Pay-per-sale: affiliate is paid a
percentage or flat rate for each sale it
generates from visitors it directs to you.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
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Outline What is Affiliate Marketing?
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn
Income
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The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
“Affiliate marketing is a recession-proof
marketing channel." James Marciano, founder of Refer-it
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Is Your Business Suited for Affiliate Marketing?
Eight of the top ten retail sites for March 2001, as
ranked by Media Metrix, have an affiliate program.
If you are selling your goods or services well from
your site, affiliates can do it, too!
BUT… do you have enough margin to offer a
competitive commission rate? And are you willing
to invest in an affiliate manager, or better, an
affiliate team?
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
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Just the Stats, Part 1
In January 2001, a Forrester Research survey stated
that 83 percent of spending by 2003 will be pure cost-
per-action deals or a hybrid of CPM and performance.
This will be up from 62 percent in 2000.
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
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Just the Stats, Part 2
Jupiter Communications reports that affiliate programs
account for 11% of consumer transactions online, and
they project that figure to grow to 24% by 2002.
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
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Just the Stats, Part 3
affiliate metrix, inc. reported that in 2001, 18% of
affiliate programs using the pay per sale model
accounted for 21% or more of their company’s retail
transactions online.
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
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The Key Benefits
Opportunity to create a powerful and effective
marketing network for your product or service.
Risk-free advertising.
Focus on long-term marketing strategy, rather than
short-term tactical media buys.
Reduction in sales and marketing costs.
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
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Outline What is Affiliate Marketing?
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn
Income
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Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn Income
What’s good for the goose is good for the
gander.
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Free Content for Your Site
News of all types
Articles on many subjects
Web search services
Local news, weather, entertainment and events
Sports and stock information
Auctions
Consumer reviews and opinions
Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn Income
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Have Your Affiliate Team Become Affiliates
360 degree understanding of the industry.
Better understanding of affiliate issues.
First-hand knowledge of the tools and resources
needed to create a successful affiliate site.
Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn Income
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Better Yet, Hire Affiliates!
They are already familiar with the industry.
They are able to help affiliates with basic technical
issues, since they have their own site.
Less training necessary.
Example: Wendy, a ClubMom affiliate, now runs
the BabySongs.com affiliate program.
Become an Affiliate Yourself and Earn Income
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2001 Merchant Report Research and benchmarking from 145 affiliate managers from a cross-section of the industry. Data includes:
average # of affiliate sites
conversion rates
impression numbers
staffing issues
affiliate team salaries
Available at http://www.affiliatemetrix.com/
For more information about affiliate marketing…
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© 2001 ClubMom, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Partner Up: Affiliate Marketing in Action
Shawn Collins – Affiliate Manager, ClubMom, Inc.
646-435-6513
http://www.affiliatemanager.net
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“Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants”
By Shawn Collins & Frank Fiore
$27.50 US - Que Publishing
ISBN: 0789725258
“If you run an affiliate program, you need this book.”
– Allan Gardyne, AssociatePrograms.com
Available at http://www.affiliatemanager.net/buynow.htm
For more information about affiliate marketing…