Internet ‘surfers’, as those who visit websites are termed, know no boundaries except those imposed by language and choice. Whilst most affiliate networks and some merchants find this idea difficult to assimilate, Ocean Affiliates has grasped the concept and is developing a network for the 21st century, offering advertisers and Internet marketers the opportunity to work together wherever such a partnership is potentially profitable, regardless of the physical location of either.
A website built and maintained in one country may have a predominance of visitors from an entirely different continent. An advertiser based on one continent may have existing or potential markets in several other countries. Whilst some affiliate networks, developed to handle advertisers and affiliates in a single country, are struggling to adapt, Ocean Affiliates is striding confidently in the right direction.
The Ocean Affiliates network provides an excellent opportunity for web publishers with sites aimed at more than one English-speaking country to find products and services that they can offer to their visitors as a means of earning income. Nonetheless, a webmaster who only wants to be affiliated with merchants in a single country will find an array of choices to suit most sites and merchants who prefer to stick with their geographic population will find plenty of willing affiliates.
Some affiliate marketers prefer to work with a single network and Ocean Affiliates is constantly sourcing new and diverse opportunities in each country. Others, used to having to work with up to a dozen different networks, each filling a particular set of requirements, are becoming aware that Ocean Affiliates has the advantage over most of them and may eventually make it unnecessary to work with so many different entities.
The advantages of partnering through Ocean Affiliates do not end there, either. Some networks leave communication with affiliates entirely up to the advertisers who have partnered with them. This can result in an inbox crammed with the daily equivalent of a ton of ‘spam’, as individual merchants with sufficient time or manpower to do so, bombard their marketing partners with exhortations to sell more of their particular product.
Whilst the opportunity for occasional, or even regular, dialogue between affiliate and advertiser can be a good thing, the system adopted by Ocean Affiliates is a far better one.
Affiliates receive regular updates on new campaigns as they become available and links are provided via e-mail, making it possible to participate immediately. This system ensures that affiliates are aware of opportunities as soon as they exist and that advertisers are not overlooked by potential marketing partners, leaving both free to get on with what they do best.
For those who are new to affiliate marketing, whether as website publishers or as merchants, Ocean Affiliates offers the support needed, and this willingness to help newcomers, or ‘newbies’ as they are affectionately termed, is one of the features that sets Ocean Affiliates apart and assure a bright future for all concerned.
Online since 1998 as a webmaster,working mainly with small businesses and freelance tradesmen, Linnet Woods is editor of MarineZine, a free online nautical magazine, is active on several work-related forums and has more than a dozen sites at http://www.linnetwoods.com.
