Ecash Maker Affilate Curry
 Chapter 2 - Page 2   eCashMaker - Step By Step guide to making money on the Internet

The history of affiliate marketing

Many believe  Amazon.com launched the first affiliate program on the Internet way back in 1996. A quick visit to their web site and you will see that Amazon claims to be the pioneer and the leader in affiliate marketing with nearly a million affiliates.

Legend has it, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, chatted with a woman at a cocktail party about how she wanted to sell books about divorce on her web site.

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After that exchange, Bezos pondered the idea and thought about having the woman link her site to Amazon and receive a commission on the book sales. This was the impetus for creating the "first on the Web" Amazon.com Associates Program.

However, many Internet gurus believe that Bezos was not the first and that the adult content sites were first. In fact the adult sites are credited with many of the best (and worst) innovations. However what is beyond doubt is that Amazon operates one of the largest affiliate programs on the Internet.

While Amazon is accepted as one of the major corporations benefiting from affiliate marketing, it is not very clear how well the affiliates fared. Most affiliates are privately held anonymous entities and there is no authentic source for affiliate earnings. We have heard amazing numbers being earned  per month by individual affiliates (not corporations).

Now that we have a basic idea of what affiliate marketing is and we know that there is money to be made by becoming affiliates we need to move on to the next step.

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