Start an affiliate program

The reason to start an affiliate marketing program is to increase the visibility of your website and products, as well as driving more relevant traffic your way.

As most affiliates will work hard to send well converting visitors, much of the traffic recieved from affiliate banners will be of very good quality, thus making it likely they will buy your products.

There are different approaches for advertisers looking to start an affiliate program:

Join an affiliate network

Joining an affiliate network is perhaps the easiest way of entering the affiliate marketing arena, because it's somewhat hassle free. The affiliate networks know how to charge for their services, so look at the prices and features.

Buying affiliate software

Buying readymade affiliate program software is often cheaper than joining an affiliate network, but you need to do more of the work yourself. There are a lot of affiliate software to be bought, you need to find what suits you.

Inhouse affiliate program

To create your own affiliate program from scratch, you need good skills in programming and insight in the affiliate marketing business. This is not for the new.