What is an Affiliate Program? 

An affiliate program is way of allowing others to sell or promote your products and services for commission. 

Benefits 

• Because your banners and links are placed on other sites this makes you more visible with not much effort.  
• You have other people marketing your product and services, it's not all down to you.  
• Your sales will increase dramatically.  
• You will certainly appear "bigger" than what you are and your credibility will be higher.
• You only pay someone once they have made a sale, which then means that there are no upfront costs to you.
• It's highly affordable!

Look at Amazon.com's sales volume! It has established itself as the No.1 bookseller in the world. No one else comes close. Much of this is due to ONE factor...their affiliate program.

But gone are the days when only the "big" sites could set up and run affiliate programs, adding affiliate tracking software to your site is one of the most effective ways to achieve more sales and more traffic. Through iDevAffiliate - Affiliate Tracking Software we have achieved this purpose, and to see how our program is run, click here.

The software is an effective affiliate marketing and sales campaign, with features that are both advanced and comprehensive for the affiliate user as well as the administrator. 

Utilizing PHP and a MySQL database, iDevAffiliate not only uses cookies for affiliate tracking but also IP logs.  The sessions are for immediate purchases and cookie/IP backups for future visits, so with this full-proof method of affiliate tracking, the user is well aware that no sale is being left out of the tracking process. 

From our experience, we highly recommend iDevAffiliate - Affiliate Tracking Software for your own Affiliate Program and if you purchase from our site, we will install it for FREE!

Ask yourself the following questions before you begin. 

• Do you want to replicate your entire site giving each affiliate their very own www.yoursite.com?  
• Do you simply want to track sales giving each affiliate their own unique ID?  
• Do you want to pay affiliates for actual sales, clicks or leads only?  
• Do you sell products, services or electronic products? Do you want your affiliates to market all your services and products or only some?  
• Do you want to pay only the actual affiliate who makes the sale or do you want to build a two-tier program, compensating the affiliate for sales his referrals make too.  
• Do you want international affiliates or affiliates from your own country only?  
• Do you want to pay a percentage of sales or a flat rate? 

Once your affiliate program has been set-up, you'll need to promote it. As a starting point, list your site at http://www.revenews.com , http://www.associateprograms.com/  and http://www.affiliatebroadcast.com . These sites also provide information on marketing your own affiliate program. The point is there are lots of options for you to choose from. Depending upon your circumstances, financial situation and whether you sell products or services, but which every method you choose, you could soon be on your way to becoming the next Amazon.com!