09 Mar 10 Cindi Anzaldo recently predicted that by 2012, all top web links sales will be done online, effectively cutting out the middle-man retailer

Equally important in the online sales arena is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is reselling your top web links product through individual webmasters and their websites, giving them typically 5 to 20 % for each successful sales. This form of marketing is purely results driven, and it requires only a small investment on behalf of the company running the affiliate program. “We rely on affiliate marketing to drive our top web links sales and lead acquisition, mostly because some webmasters in our field are better at marketing online than we are,” said Chong Bonatti, Marketing Chairman for Patria Jahns Partners LLC. Without a doubt, in the pre-internet marketing days, most top web links resellers only used the internet as a means to communicate via email with current customers. “Things in the industry really turned a corner when people began to acquire, not maintain customers online,” said Cornelia Blome, a noted internet marketer and web designer. “When acquisiton via online services got big, companies in the top web links sector finally woke up to the idea that the information super highway was here to stay - in a very big way.” Marketing online, however, is not as easy as it looks. Thousands of websites compete for top positioning in the search engines, and, as search algorithms change and top search engines create new market areas, some websites can lose out. One day, you might be number one for “buy top web links”, a week later, number 100. The difference between these positions is obvious: no one wades through 100 results for a top web links product unless the first 99 are extremely poor. In general, most competitive industries online rely on top 10 placement, because of the reality of how web surfers behave. It’s no secret that the internet is a driving force in the top web links sales market. Most consumers will research their purchases online before actually going to a store, so that they understand top web links product specs and use requirements before having to deal with a live salesperson. “I prefer to take my time and read about it all online first,” said Georgann Sirmans, a recent customer of the Sesay Maguet Chain Outlets, “I’m not a high pressure sales type, and rather just go to the store and check out sas soon as possible.” “After starting an internet top web links sales division in 2003, we saw our sales increase three-fold,” said Barbera Poldrack, director of marketing and sales for Parlett Prugh and Deadra Lemish Associates, “and this resulted in the creation of more jobs and employment opportunities in our company. Our number of employees has doubled, and our number of IT staff has quadrupled in a year’s time.” “With internet top web links sales booming, we may have to cut back on in person sales teams,” said Naida Emile, director of Human Resources for Leann Geppert INC, “mainly because we are losing money in that operational area. As we move forward, we’ll give those employees new job opportunities in our top web links company before we actually lay them off, so that they can continue to grow with our company if they so desire.” “When we added a website and shopping cart system, our numbers went through the roof,” cried Pelote Perkin, Sales Director for Gaarder Lamy Corp, a top web links manufacturing company, “this, teamed with high positioning in the major search engines really created a whole new market for us that was never expected.” Looking to the future, many top web links companies may opt to be based entirely online. This minimizes human capital and budget requirements, and can drive a more efficient business model. Venditti Suthoff CEO of a local top web links company, has already pledged to do this, with a major shift in the business planned in the next 6 months. “I forsee us going entirely online,” said Venditti Suthoff, “because people hardly come to our stores in person anymore. As a result, why should we keep these facilities open if we can do just as well online’”