What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a form of online advertising that works by only rewarding actual results. An advertiser (or 'merchant') will only pay when a sale is actually made. Affiliates earn their commission by promoting with a view to driving purchasers to the merchant's website. The affiliate is rewarded by the merchant, usually on a straightforward commission basis on the value of each sale. Affiliate Window technology allows the purchaser to be tracked through the ad on the affiliate's site, to the merchant's site. The amount of the sale is recorded. The tracking system then invoices the merchant for the amount of the commission and pays it out to the affiliate.

If you advertise your products online affiliate marketing is an efficient way to generate additional business. It's a cost effective form of advertising for merchants; a way of extending reach to more and more customers with the added benefit of free brand awareness.

If you have a website and wish to generate revenue from it without having to sell products, advertising space or to develop complex technology, affiliate marketing allows you to earn revenue by simply promoting other sites. It is an easy and effective way for you to monetise your web real estate.

Whether you have a product to sell or have a website that you would like to use to generate advertising revenue Psychedelic Turtle can either set up a an affiliate marketing program for you or provide training so that you can do it yourself. Contact us to start your own affiliate program.