Revenue-Sharing Program:

A program that allows merchants and website owners to increase sales.  The host site links to the merchant with a banner, button or text link, for a fee.  The merchant pays the website owner for increased traffic, sales and leads from the host site.

This seems like the less guaranteed way to go about performance [...]

Pay Per Sale (PPS):

A program where an affiliate receives a commission for each sale of a product or service that they refer to a merchant’s website.  Pay-per-sale programs usually offer the highest commissions and the lowest conversion ration.

This is the most common model of affiliate program.  The merchant puts the pressure of generating a sale [...]

Commission Rate:

The rate of income an affiliate receives for generating a sale, lead, or click throughs to a merchant’s website.

Most commission rates, by and large, are percentage based when using the CPS model.  Most click through programs or lead gen programs, however, use a flat fee to pay out on leads and clicks.
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Here we are at the end of May already?!  It’s zoomed by really fast for me…I can’t believe summer is within our grasp!  It’s been a short week thanks to the Memorial Day weekend, so not much news to summarize for you this week, but plenty to get your brain juices going!

With the recent appointment [...]

That’s right, I’m gearing up for my first ever contest here at TrishaLyn.com. I’m not really going to make people jump through a million hoops with some complicated point structure system to win - but I won’t lie, it will have to benefit me in some way of course.
Prizes are being compiled, details and [...]