In this article you will learn what an affiliate is and how he uses a website to earn money online with the use of so called affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing is a very cost effective business method and a perfect opportunity for people with a real Interest in webdesign and home based business.
Affiliate marketing & affiliate programs
The affiliate
An affiliate is a website or a person that are paid to promote a product or a site. This can be through regular ads or discrete textlinks on the website. This is what makes affiliate marketing so effective from the company’s perspective. You can use the word-of-mouth and loyalty to other brands and sites to create revenues for both the company and the affiliate itself. If you hold a gambling forum with a lot of loyal members and recommend a site that you say “is a good site to play at” this information is seen as a lot more valuable compared to viewing a commercial for the same company.
The affiliate program
Different types of affiliates and affiliate programs
There are a lot of different kind of websites, so obviously there are many different kinds of affiliates. Within different industries you can promote the product in different ways. In the gambling affiliate industry, a very lucrative business, there are especially 2 kinds of affiliates.
We can call them regular affiliates, that promote the product itself and gambling as a whole i.e poker & other casino games. Gambling affiliates can make the most money as they have very high margins and payment plans already from beginning. The negative sides is that there are already a lot of sites about poker and a lot of players have a good deal with many sites offering better bonuses then those a regular affiliate can. The big cannons have always better chances in getting higher commissions and offer their players better deals...
...and that´s where we come in!
So what is the idea with BAC? Why should you become a member?
Higher commissons
We will help you an extra step on the road to become a successful gambling affiliate. We give you the extra % you need to earn that extra amount of money, and if you become a VIP with us we will help you contact the site to get even better bonuses and deals for your players, so that you can focus on bringing in the players, not having to think about contact the sites and negotiate in that end.
Save time
Negotiating good deals takes time and still - you can't be sure of anything. Small websites are not often taken too seriously when asking for higher commission. But our deals are already negotiated and for everyone. Even the smaller websites!
Better offers for your visitors
Another common way of earning money in the poker affiliate business is to offer some of your commission back to the players. This is called rakeback and has become more restricted the last years. The networks have limited how big parts of your commission you can give away and there are a lot of rules and regulations around it. The good parts of this are that you can offer even better deals for your players, not the same as everyone else. This will increase the activity for your players, and you will earn more. The downside is that your margin is lower, and there are a lot of work with paying your players etc.
Good thing is, we have a solution for that too. We can arrange so that you become a partner to one of the biggest and most renowned rakeback sites out there. You send the players, they take care of all work and you still keep more money then you would if you would have taken care of it yourself!
Different kinds of affiliate deals
There are different ways of getting paid. Some affiliate programs pay you just for sending in the traffic to them, some pays for registrations (leads as it is called), some pay a clump sum for a depositing player (or a purchase) and some offer revenue share, where you will earn money of the players long term, often life time.
What method suits you the best is often depending on what site you are, and what kind of affiliate you are. Most of the time you earn most by taking revenue share. You never know how much your referral will spend in his lifetime. We have referred players to poker sites that have been raking up to $20 000 in ONE single month. With our improved and better then normal affiliate deals the extra 5% that we are able to offer gives you $1000 extra in just ONE month if you happen to bring in one of these players. A casino affiliate that we have been working with have players spending €5000 / month in an online casino, bringing in €1500+ in a month. As you see you can easily earn more then the one time fee you get for every player that can be up to maybe $200 for every depositor.
Tracking Methods
You may wonder how companies can keep track of which customers that are coming from your website. There are 2 methods that are used.
Tracking Codes
The first is the tracking code. When you sign up for an affiliate program you will recieve a tracking code which contains your id. You can put this code in your links on your site ad when people click the link they will be directed to the promoted company and get tagged to your affiliate account.
Signup Codes / Affiliate codes
Sometimes you can also create affiliate codes or signup codes which the visitor has to type in when doing a purchase or singning up. Most often the codes are required for getting a bonus or a discount just to make sure that the customers are tracked correctly.
The tracking system is on the company´s end
The company are keeping track of which customers that come from your site and the tracking system is on their end. There is nothing you can do about it and it is all about reliability. But: all affiliate programs we have workde with has so far seemed fair and hones
