What's The Difference Between Reseller and Affiliate?

The terms reseller and affiliate in online business is already familiar. Both systems are often used to earn income via the internet. If last week has been discussed about what an affiliate, this week we will discuss what is the difference between resellers and affiliate?
 In principle the affiliate and reseller systems are the same. Namely both aim to sell other people's products, to be an intermediary medium between producers / distributors with end users / consumers. For such marketing services they are entitled to get a commission, the amount of which is adjusted to the rules of the manufacturer / distributor. What distinguishes between reseller and affiliate systems are:

    Affiliate system is one of the systems used in online business, by selling products or services of others without any conditions. So we are only required to register, without the need to buy or have a product or service that we will offer. But the affiliate commission is also not as big as the reseller program commissions, usually ranging from 20% to 50%. For example clickbank.com
    While the reseller program is a system that can be run for online business, by selling products or services of others with the condition we have to buy or have a product or service that we will market. Commissions are also varied, but greater than the commission received affilitor that is between 30% to 80%.
In running an online business with affiliate or reseller system required persistence and required to always focus on one product or service only. In addition, not all affiliate programs and resellers offered have good quality, so we must be more careful to choose the right program. For the following we provide tips on running a successful business affiliate and reseller business:

    Before becoming an affiliate or reseller of a product, make it a habit to learn information about the product or service that you will be promoting.
    Choose products that interest the market or prduk that you like. So in addition to marketing their products, you can also get pleasure from these activities so as not easy to bored.
    Do it using different marketing or promotional strategies than others. So it can attract people's attention. For example by providing bonuses or additions that attract consumer buying.
    Provide additional experience fortunately following the affiliate business or reseller of the product, so that consumers are confident with the existing offer. Can use your blog to optimize campaigns, by creating new content on blogs for promotions.
    Encourage the cooperation of several people to help our sales, for example, invites colleagues who have not become a reseller to help market the products we spend by dividing the commissions earned.
    The fifth is diligent, focused and provide new innovations that can attract more consumers. Think about how to increase the sales of the products we offer.
Many ways to achieve success with an online business, after knowing the difference between affiliate programs and reseller programs. Hope can help you in choosing a business that can run online. Success always.

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