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How affiliate marketing will greatly impact sales

After having spent years exploring the world of affiliate marketing and online commerce, it was very informative to finally attend a conference focused exclusively on this multi-billion-dollar sales engine, Affiliate Summit 2006. Without question, there's no greater change in the world of sales and marketing than affiliate marketing, and companies from Amazon.com and Best Buy to little Mom and Pop stores are recognizing this fact. Whatever you think your customers, market segment or visitors will buy there's some sort of affiliate program that will make it easy to match them with high quality products.

    The future of sales is affiliate marketing

It's worth a read whether you're interested in adding affiliate sales to your existing marketing and sales mix or just want to learn about a new way to monetize your Web site.