Affiliate marketing is one of the most hype-infested areas of online activity. It is often very difficult to tell truth from fiction, honesty from outright lies. The reason is pretty simple: affiliate marketers — people who sell other products online for a commission — have a vested interest in hyping these products and never saying anything negative or even mildly critical about any of them. Affiliate marketing is extreme "let the buyer beware" country.

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Affiliate Marketing is one of the most popular methods of marketing products on the web. A producer or manufacture of a product can widen his or her distribution chain immensely by contracting with agents or "affiliates" to represent these products to his or her customers. The affiliate normally has a means of generating prospective buyers of the product. And these prospects are simply referred to the producer who then gives the referring agent (the affiliate) a commission if the referral results in a sale.

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If you have a product you are selling online and are considering selling it through affiliates have a look at aMember, a Powerful and full-featured membership/subscription software for your website.

This package is quite inexpensive (currently $139), hosted on your own site (and therefore has no ongoing cost), and has been tested and used over several years and many installations.

It also has a built in Affiliate manager where you can set up affiliates, provide them with affiliate links, stats, and handle payouts.

Certainly one of the most successful books about Affiliate Marketing to ever hit the cyber shelves is Rosalind Gardner's "The Super Affiliate Handbook". Given the dramatic claims that are made for this book — both by Rosalind herself, and by the army of willing affiliates that sell it — one is led to ask whether the hype is just a bit overdone.

Imagine the confusion if all McDonalds told their new franchise owners was here's your restaurant, now go to it. Not one in 20 McDonalds locations would run smoothly. Owners wouldn't know how to cook the food, promote the restaurant, or what to tell employees. The mighty McDonalds chain would fall apart in no time.

=== reprinted from Traffic-Advisor.com