Revenue Models
In planning your Web, you might identify making money as one of your objectives. There are a wide variety of models for revenue possible, including things like earning money from direct sales or advertising.This page lists articles introducing one form of gaining revenue from Web publishing efforts--affiliate programs. These articles provide an introduction for beginners to Web affiliate programs:
- The Affiliate Connection: This article helps someone new to affiliate programs understand the basics of how an affiliate program works, the players involved, and the important role that affiliates play in ecommerce.
- The Audience Advantage: This article provides an affiliate with a general framework to shape a site's content so that it appeals to an audience for a purpose. Through audience identification, page design, promotion, and analysis, an affiliate can engage in a continuous process of improving results.
- The Supremacy of Content: This article gives an affiliate ideas for considering, implementing, and assessing content so that it attracts and engages users and generates a return on investment.
- The Mix of Success: Working as an affiliate depends on balancing many issues. This article gives an affiliate some mathematical tools to help make decisions about the mix of merchant links on a site.