Online shopping has steadily increased over the last ten years. The trend will continue unabated. As a result, selling online is now a requirement for survival and a condition of profitability for any kind of business. In other words, E-Commerce is, today, a multi billion industry, that is growing faster every year.
SFI offers to businesses an easy and cost effective way to be in the E-Commerce game as Affilaites (ECAs) with TripleClicks.
To cater to the shoppers, give them a personal, enjoyable experience, Tripleclicks as instituted the Personally Referred Members (PRMs). Hence, PRMs and CAs) are two major income streams, critical in building an SFI business. We have over 80,000 products and services available within TripleClicks. It is up to us to increase that number and benefit from it. We do that by opening our own stores, referring ECAs or PRMs.
As SFI Affiliates, our role is to bring buyers and sellers to meet. When a sale closes we earn a commission from both ends. A good scenario is when one of our PRMs buys from one of our ECAs. We gain from both sides of the transaction.
For the sake of maximizing my earning potential, I find easier and more beneficial to target both markets using a "common denominator" . This is the way I prefer to answer your inquiry. I promote my TripleClicks gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/xxxxxxxx
This Gateway will drop off our prospective members at the main homepage. The ones who are interested in being a Personally Referred Member (PRM) will sign as such, while a business owner interested in opening their own store will join as an E-Commerce Affiliate (ECA).
I also find it worthwhile to approach the question in both angles:
(a) prospecting for ECAs more specifically using my ECA gateway, when I come across potential members who are store owners and need to expand or strengthen their online activity.
http://www.tripleclicks.com/xxxxxxxx/ECA
(b) or, pitch for TripleClicks membership, seeking PRM sign-ups, when I am interacting with prospects active in niche or segmented markets such as health food, nutritional supplements, home and gardens shoppers or penny auction bidders. In such cases I use my direct sales gateways.
The above is what explains your question. It stems from the fact that the motives are different for prospects who want to be PRMs from those who will be ECAS. In generic terms, they hold the same opportunities for income. An ECA will continue to generate commissions for us as long as they run their business through TripleClicks. So, will a PRM, as long as they are active members. But the actual results will vary from one to the other.
Any direct answer to your question will be just a mere opinion. It will not be based on facts that will remain valid in the majority of specific situations. There are no across the board benchmarks to will tell us that, overall, our ECAs will perform better than our PRMs or the other way around.
Each one of us, a promoters, will have a different experience. I will not replicate your experience and your results; nor will you replicate mine.
In terms of the commission they will generate for us the promoters, there are no established similitude that will hold true in every situation: one ECA will not be equal to another ECA; one PRM will not bring in the same amount as the next PRM, and definitely, one ECA will not be the same as one PRM.
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Online shopping has steadily increased over the last ten years. The trend will continue unabated. As a result, selling online is now a requirement for survival and a condition of profitability for any kind of business. In other words, E-Commerce is, today, a multi billion industry, that is growing faster every year.
SFI offers to businesses an easy and cost effective way to be in the E-Commerce game as Affilaites (ECAs) with TripleClicks.
To cater to the shoppers, give them
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