Affiliate programs

What are hotel affiliate programs?

It also call associate programs, are arrangements in which an online merchant Web site pays affiliate Web sites a commission to send them traffic. A particular agreement based on the number of people the affiliate sends to the merchant's site.

There are 3 parties in affiliate program:

- We, the customers

- The affiliate program

- The merchant program

In 1996, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of amazon, popularized this idea as an Internet marketing strategy. The affiliate helps make the sale, but Amazon.com does everything else: They take the order, collect the money and ship the book to the customer.

How do they work?

To create an affiliate programs it’s very easy if we have a computer connected to Internet. We just have to go to a site such as GeoCities or AOL and use their ready-made Web design templates to construct a simple personal page.

When a customer clicks on a link on an affiliate site and purchases one of your products, you pay your affiliate a commission on the sale. You decide how much commission you're willing to pay for each item that sold. After a sale results, you pay your affiliate a commission, and the process begins all over again.