Drive traffic to your site to increase your bottom line.

Today with over 10 billion web pages on the World Wide Web, close to 1 billion internet users, the challenge lies in making your site known to as many people as possible. Now that's quite a challenge as not everyone is interested in your site and its contents.

You have to find a way to reach those that may now or in the future have an interest in your products or services. You want to get on their favorites list. Now the question is, how? There are close to 1 billion users out there. Where do you start? Well, a great place is by employing the power of affiliate marketing programs.

Affiliate Marketing is a process whereby one website (the affiliate or publisher) promotes another website's products or services (the merchant or advertiser) in exchange for a commission when a sale is realized through the affiliate's unique url link.

Affiliate Marketing is a new and revolutionary method for driving profits through revenue sharing relationships between online merchants and content sites. Affiliate Marketing pushes products and services out to the consumer on virtual shelf space across the Web, creating more opportunities for merchants to generate sales, for affiliates to earn revenue from their sites, and for consumers to find the products and services they want on the Web.

Through Affiliate Marketing, merchants can place their advertising banners and links on content sites worldwide and only pay a commission when those links generate a sale or qualified lead. Affiliated content sites can easily convert selected areas of their online content into e-commerce by populating it with these revenue-generating links.

How It Works
With Affiliate Marketing, a merchant recruits content sites to partner with them as affiliates in exchange for commissions. The merchant provides their advertising banners and links to their affiliates and assigns a commission for each click-through to their site, subscription to their service (a lead), or purchase of their products that is generated from the links. Affiliates place the tracking code for these ads into their Web pages. Whenever a visitor to the affiliate's site uses these links to generate a click-through, lead, or sale for the merchant, that transaction is tracked online. If a product or service is purchased, the customer pays the merchant directly, and the affiliate is paid a commission for that transaction.

Sounds fairly simply but with literally thousands of Affiliate Marketing programs available which one do you choose?

Well before you can even start answering that question, your site has to be ready for the traffic and technology must be placed to award the lead or sale. It's like going to a restaurant, seeing the menu and once you've ordered that mouth watering dish, the waitress says, "sorry, we just ran out". Well, in a restaurant you may be courteous enough not to get up and walk out but on the World Wide Web, you're one small fish in a very large pond... they'll walk out.

Once your site is technologically ready, there are a wide array of programs to chose from such as:

• Banner exchange programs
• Link exchange programs
• Newsgroup participation
• Pay-per-click
• Pay-per-sale
• Pay-per-lead
• Build your own affiliate marketing program
• Display yourself on a high traffic site such as Google, Netscape, MSN, CNN and Amazon to name a few
• Join a webring

Affiliate Marketing allows you to profit online with your current business or website and provides results instead of promises. Blade can furnish you with the tools you need to build and maintain the most successful affiliate and merchant relationships. We invite you to contact us to see which programs are right for you.

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