History of Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing has developed quickly as its inauguration. Now a day the e-commerce website, viewed as a marketing plaything. It became an incorporated part of the overall business arrangement. In some cases affiliated marketing grew to a larger business than the existing offline business. Currently the most vigorous sectors for affiliate marketing are the adult, gambling and trade sectors.

The Launch of Affiliate marketing

The concept of profits sharing, paying costs for referred business, predates that of affiliate marketing. The paraphrase of the profit share principles to majority e-commerce happened almost four years after the World Wide Web (W.W.W) was born in November 1994 when CDNow.com was borned.CDNow.com was a music oriented web site. Affiliate marketing was used on the Internet by the adult industry before the CDNow.com launched. Amazon.com launched it’s relate program in July 1996. In February 2000, Amazon.com announced that it had been decided a patent on all the necessary components of an affiliate program.

Effects of Affiliate / Internet / Online marketing on Industries

Internet marketing has a large collision over industries like music, banking, and flea markets, in addition to the advertising industry itself. In the music industry, many customers begin to buy CDs, and they downloading music files (MP3s). More banks are contributing the facility of online marketing to execute their task online. Flea markets are started selling over eBay. We can give an auction to the eBay, it also change the prices in the industry.

Limitations of Affliate marketing or Internet Marketing

Internet marketing gives us newer and efficient technology than conventional technologies, which no doubt attractive but not all people get this facility. Many blockades of internet marketing make it limited to all. One of it is low speed internet connection, other two are - many people do not believe this, Internet connection is expensive also, many people can not effort to this. In conventional business people can touch, taste products.