hi, I think I have a problem with correct use of the words affiliate. Can you, please, tell me three things? 1. Who is an affiliate 2. How do I call a site that has links to another site and makes money for sending customers to it? 3. How do I call the site/company that has a bunch of those described at no.2 and uses them as a sales marketing channel. I simply got lost and am now not sure who do you mean when saying 'affiliates' thanks,
1: The individual that is sending customers towards the original owner of the sold product or service and getting paid a share or fee for doing this in some sort of form or another. 2: That is called an affiliate site 3: A company not sure if you have an official word for this.
thanks. so the #3 is simply the service/product provider running the affiliate programme and there is no short word for that, right?
No, i don't think this would qualify for naming the company that is the origine of an affiliate program, this would more sound like the kind of affiliate doing better then all the rest of them Super affiliate does has nice ring to it, what do you think of Ober-affiliate or Supreme master Affiliate
so, to sum up: If I have a goat and produce and sell goat cheese, I am the source company. If I sell my goat cheese through my website and have an affiliate programme for other websites, I am #3 (which we do not know how to call ). If one has a website and signs up to my programme, they are affiliate of mine (#1 and #2). I believe, the super affiliate would be the affiliate of my goat cheese programme that runs their own affiliate programme that includes my affiliate programme. Am I right?
For my own sanity, I think in terms of Affiliate (person being paid for sending targeted prospects to another party's sales page) and Affiliator (party running the sales page and paying out to the affiliate). It gets a little more convoluted if there is a middle-layer like Commision Junction, who I refer to (in my own head) as the "affiliate manager" or "affiliate program manager".