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There are many people going online and Google searching the words 'network marketing affiliate program'. It is hard to tell what they will
come up with, a program that is an affiliate program or a network marketing program. This article is not about which is better, network
marketing or affiliate marketing but more about the differences between them!
If you surveyed 100 people and asked them whether they
preferred affiliate marketing or network marketing, you would probably come up with about a 50-50 split.
In this article we will
identify a few main differences between network marketing and affiliate marketing, and you can decide for yourself which one is best for
you. You may find yourself interested in both!
First of all, in network marketing you can build a down line of distributors and get
paid on their efforts several levels deep. Each compensation plan for the various MLM companies will be different.
So, it is very
important to be aware of how you get paid with the company that you join. But it is not improbable to see your commission checks, earning
percentages on products sold several levels beneath you.
With affiliate marketing, you get paid on your personal sales. In other
words, you can earn money on frontline affiliates that you personally enrol. You will never earn any commissions with affiliate marketing
down lines beyond the first level of your personally enrolled affiliates.
There are still make people making tremendous amounts of
money with affiliate marketing, but they do not have the potentially large down line groups that an affiliate in a network marketing business
might have.
Secondly, most affiliate marketing programs are free to join, while network marketing programs often require a joining
fee to get started and in some cases an ongoing monthly or yearly admin fee as well. Again, there's nothing wrong with this, it is simply a
difference in business models. For this reason, many people start and fail in affiliate marketing at just as high a rate as network
marketing has experienced in the past.
The internet has greatly improved the odds for success in network marketing and as people
develop more skills the success rate in affiliate marketing is beginning to climb as well. If there still is a problem with network
marketing it is because most people cannot sell or recruit.
People will join an affiliate program and know right up front that they
are going to be selling products and that's what they're expected to do. Many affiliate marketers never ever recruit anyone. Therefore, they
need not worry about the multi-level affiliate programs.
These are true business people who make their money selling products online.
The emphasis of network marketing is still on building a distributorship. So people spend more time trying to recruit people than they
actually do selling products.
This should give you a few ideas of the differences between affiliate marketing and network marketing.
Which way you decide to take your network marketing affiliate program business is totally up to you.
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