
Web Site Promotion Strategies > Ecommerce Affiliate Programs
Dear Friend,
With online ecommerce affiliate programs, the future of E-commerce looks bright as thousands of companies in hundreds of established industries flock to a new kind of pay-for-performance marketing with online affiliate programs.
If you thought the dot-com crash of 2000 was the end of e-commerce, James Martell would like to talk to you.
In promoting an e-book about his self-taught success with online affiliate programs, the Vancouver, Canada, based author and lecturer is boldly predicting that not only has the Internet survived as a viable distribution channel for goods and services as diverse as baby formula to credit cards to high-powered motor boats, but because companies can now offer their wares risk-free throughout the world with online affiliate programs, he predicts we will see soon unprecedented growth in e-commerce.
In his newly revised (an extra 83 pages) downloadable book, entitled James Martell's Affiliate Marketers Handbook - 2005, he chronicles the exact steps he took to establish himself as a profitable affiliated publisher for dozens of companies in three competitive industries: Credit Cards, Cell Phones and Satellite TV - all using ecommerce affiliate programs.
Click here now to learn how to make money with ecommerce associate programs
One of the things he discovered, as he made his foray into affiliate home business programs, was that some very well established companies, such as American Express and DIRECTV, in the U.S., will gladly pay a commission of $40 - $50 U.S. for each successful transaction resulting from a link on a website that originates from ecommerce affiliate programs
Industry experts agree that this pay-for-performance concept started with Amazon.com, who in 1997 began compensating webmasters around the world for book sales by setting a cookie on each visitor's browser that identified the associated publisher so that a commission could be paid if a sale were made via its online affiliate programs.
This unique business relationship, now known as affiliate marketing, neatly solves the problem of driving eyeballs to websites of merchandiser's, because of the vast number of independent publishers and webmasters worldwide, who will generate targeted traffic on a pay-for-performance basis, thereby eliminating the high cost of advertising.
Martell says, "When I first got started I had no idea of how many people were online. Within only a few months of launching my first commercial website to promote a few of those free Internet access companies that were all the rage in 1999-2000, I was getting 5,000 unique visitors a day by properly optimizing my site at the major search engines."
As a consequence of converging factors such as, growing consumer confidence in making online purchases, the need for many companies to downsize brick and mortar operations and the emergence of commission ecommerce networks who act as go-betweens for merchants and affiliates, it has never been easier or more profitable to retail online with affiliate programs.
Commission Junction, www.cj.com out of Carlsbad, CA, stands out as an industry leader in providing third party functionality for affiliates and merchants' online affiliate programs by acting as a trusted third party in managing the network, tracking and reporting on activity and handling monthly commission payments.
Martell says, "I've joined several lucrative online affiliate programs through the Commission Junction network of advertisers and their online reporting and tracking functionality is second to none."
"Commission Junction has exceeded our expectations as a cost-effective marketing channel," states Kari King, Affiliate Program Manager at eBay.com, "We chose Commission Junction not only because they have an established network of quality publishers, but because their service and technology are scalable as our program grows."
Mr. Martell adds, "there is tremendous confidence in dealing with CJ merchants, because CJ has demonstrated great efficiency in handling all of the collection and processing required to ensure fair and timely commission payments to me as an affiliate, as well as managing all of the administrative and verification necessary to ensure qualified sales and leads for the ecommerce merchants' affiliate program."
It would seem that large affiliate networks of ecommerce programs partly drove the well-documented 25% increase in online Christmas shopping following Sept. 11.
Martell says, "another trend, which is fuelling this industry, is the desire to work at home for middle-aged baby boomers and young professionals with computer skills who can use affiliate home business systems."
"My entire business is run from my White Rock, B.C. home, " he said.
He cites a number of benefits to these affiliate programs and affiliate home ecommerce business systems, including the sense of personal freedom it gives him, but he said a major factor was spending more time with his wife and four kids in the pleasant seaside community in which he lives outside Vancouver.
"After getting a taste of financial freedom with affiliate programs from the comfort of my own home on my personal computer, and avoiding the stresses of long commutes and stifling work environments, I would never go back to that," he said.
To help others with similar ecommerce aspirations, Mr. Martell has developed a website for work at home enthusiasts, where visitors can find out about his recent successes with affiliate home business sysyems and also learn-the-ropes of this emerging new industry with his downloadable handbook.
I highly recommend you read this excellent product explaining how to set up and make money from being an affiliate - ecommerce programs are big business!.
To your internet success!

James A Kellie
Publisher
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