How and how much you can earn online?
In this tutorial I will explain what are affiliate programs and how you can earn online. The concepts are deliberately simplified. More specific information will in fact proposed in-depth articles. I want to clarify that I do not promise easy money, immediate and safe for anybody who can turn-on a PC, because in the web there are already too many useful guides of that type.
How and how much you can earn online?
The mechanism that allows you to make money can be simplified this way: you need to send visitors (potential customers) to a site that sells products or services. If those visitors made a purchase the site will reward you. The agreement between you and e-commerce site is called “Affiliate Program”. You are also known as the Affiliate Publisher. The ecommerce site is called Merchant or Advertiser. Wanting to be more precise, the figures involved are four:
-Prospects. These are the people interested in buying products / services via the Internet.
-You / Your site. Through the site you advertise products / services and bring potential customers to a site that sells them.
-Merchant. Is the site you are affiliated: you send him customers, he pays you.
-Manager affiliate program. Between you and the merchant may be an intermediary that deals with it to check the origin of customers, provide sales statistics, procure and manage payments. Sometimes the ecommerce site performs these activities without relying on an external service. Your earnings may not be limited to a percentage of sales but also depend on other actions taken by potential customers. The idea underlying the affiliate programs is, in fact the so-called “Pay Per Action” which includes:
PPC – Pay Per Click: You gain a fixed amount for each click made by visitors on the merchant banner / link on your site;
PPL – Pay Per Lead: You gain a fixed amount for each entry (or filling out a form) made by users from your site;
PPS – Pay Per Sale: You earn a percentage (or fixed) on the value of purchases made by visitors from your site;
