Wedding Invitation Affiliate Business

I'd like to offer you some information on how to start your own wedding invitation affiliate business. An affiliate is basically the same thing as a manufacturer's agent, with one difference. Whereas the manufacturer's agent sells the wedding invitations from her home or bridal shop or fairs, the term “affiliate” also may include someone who promotes products off a website.

The World Wide Web today offers an excellent way to show someone’s products or services. Almost everyone these days has a website. You might even have your own personal website called a blog. If you do, congratulations! You're already a step or two ahead especially if a lot of people visit and read your blog.

These manufacturers who offer an affiliate program work exactly the same as the agents; they offer you samples and full product catalog you might use for promotion. They also give you a specific identification number for you to use on your website. This is called your affiliate identification number and it's what the manufacturer use to track how much commission to pay you every month. Carlson Craft, Vista Print, Party Pop, and Impress in Print are a few of those manufacturers who offer an affiliate program.

Now, being an affiliate, will earn you less commission than any of the other wedding invitation business models, however, you also have the added benefit of never having to leave your home to work. And your sales territory is no longer restricted to you little city or town. Now you can sell to everybody on the internet.

It's not as easy though, it’s not just about setting up a blog or a website and waiting for the sales to come rolling in. But here, let me tell you a little bit about how it works. It does take quite a bit of marketing effort to get people to visit your website. For one thing, there are hundreds of other people out there trying to get people to come to their wedding invitation business websites.

But once you do get people to come in for a visit, you'll have all kinds of information for them to look at, and plenty of pictures of all of the pretty wedding invitations. A lot of these images and information are provided for you to be able to make and attractive website that will encourage people to buy their invitations from you.

As these online shoppers browse through your online samples, when they're ready to buy, they just click on a link or an image, and the item is added to their shopping cart. Of course, that link that they clicked on just happened to be coded with your affiliate ID and now, no matter what they buy, no matter how long they shop, you will earn commission from everything!