If you are not offering and affiliate program, you are quite simply missing out on money that you could be making.

If you are not offering and affiliate program, you are quite simply missing out on money that you could be making. This is especially true for merchants who offer digital products. With no product supply cost, 100% of revenue earned from affiliate marketing is bonus revenue.

How does affiliate marketing work? Well, the merchant (that's you) offers to pay the affiliate marketer a commission earning on any sales made on your website by visitors to your website that are referred by the affiliate marketer.

So, if your affiliate, "Joe" puts a link on his website that leads a visitor from his website to click a link that leads to your website, upon his recommendation of your product or service, you would then pay "Joe" a commission for the referral that he sent you.

How is all of this accomplished? Keeping track of which affiliate referred which visitor and how much of a commission they have earned and been paid out already would be impossible without the help of special software, like idev-Affiliates. So you will need to make a small investment to get started, but the return will be so much more then you have invested, that it is absolutely loony not to offer an affiliate program on your website.

Special affiliate tracking software like idev-Affiliates make it possible for potentially interested persons to sign up as affiliates for your products/services, track referrals made to your website and track commissions that are owed and have been paid out, automatically and hands free.

Building an affiliate network takes time and the sooner that you have your affiliate program up and running, the sooner that you are going to start attracting affiliate marketers to sell your product.