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Affiliate Benefits Affiliate Benefits

There are a number of benefits to having affiliates:

1. Extended Sales Force
Affiliates are only paid when a sale occurs, this means that you can easily afford to have affiliates, because there is very small overhead associated with an affiliate sales force.

2. Penetrate Vertical or Niche Markets
Affiliates are often well entrenched in Niche Markets that are often difficult to tap.

3. Access Customer Base of Other Developers
Some of the most successful affiliates are software vendors with large customer bases. If you can recruit a powerful software company they will often cross sell affiliate software, effectively granting you access to their customer base.

4. Better Understanding
Affiliate sales may open doors and give you a better understanding of your customers and their needs. This will help you determine new markets you want to enter or market to.

5. Low Cost
Setting up an affiliate program might take time but it does not typically require any cash out lay.

6. No Warehousing
You do not have to inventory large amounts inventory.

oneNetworkDirect
oneNetworkDirect contains over 70,000 affiliates from around the globe.
Affiliate Software Network
http://www.onenetworkdirect.com

RegNow
Huge network of top software titles where affiliates can earn up to 75%.
RegNow Affiliate Program
http://www.regnow.com

eSellerate
Network of both try before you buy and retail titles.

http://www.esellerate.net

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