The development of digital marketing is inseparable from technology development. One of the key points in the start of was in 1971, where Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email and his technology set the platform to allow people to send and receive files through different machines.[8] However, the more recognisable period as being the start of Digital Marketing is 1990 as this was where the Archie search engine was created as an index for FTP sites. In the 1980s, the storage capacity of computer was already big enough to store huge volumes of customer information. Companies started choosing online techniques, such as database marketing, rather than limited list broker.[9] This kind of databases allowed companies to track customers' information more effectively, thus transforming the relationship between buyer and seller. However, the manual process was not so efficient.
The new digital era has enabled brands to selectively target their customers that may potentially be interested in their brand or based on previous browsing interests. Businesses can now use social media to select the age range, location, gender and interests of whom they would like their targeted post to be seen by. Furthermore, based on a customer's recent search history they can be ‘followed’ on the internet so they see advertisements from similar brands, products and services,[38] This allows businesses to target the specific customers that they know and feel will most benefit from their product or service, something that had limited capabilities up until the digital era.
Alexandro, se você utilizar uma plataforma de ecommerce, a maioria já vem com módulo de afiliados, neste caso é só customizar de acordo com suas necessidades. De fato marketing de afiliados está ganhando mais espaço no mercado, até porque é benéfico para todos envolvidos, desde o cliente que chega por meio de um link de um site ou blog que ele conhece e muitas vezes o responsável pelo conteúdo conhece a loja que se cadastrou no programa de afiliados, como para loja que aumenta a participação na rede. Implementei um programa de afiliados numa loja de produtos eróticos que administro (Sex Nanda) com o sistema PPS (ou CPV) com uma comissão de até 10%. Muito bacana e fácil de usar, isso também é fundamental para os afiliados. 
"Jim, Wanted to touch base with you on an update. We should have a better understanding when were starting back up in the next 2-4 weeks. Good news is that it looks like your link building efforts are paying off like we talked about. Over the past 2 days our free google traffic has seen new highs. So we were on a steady down trend for 5 months and over the past 2 weeks we have seen a steady increase to new highs of over that of last summer." Andrew G.

Marketing de afiliados é uma forma de você gerar rendimento através de um trabalho de partilha, recomendação e promoção de produtos ou serviços de outras pessoas ou empresas. Basicamente, quando você ajuda uma outra empresa a conseguir vender um produto, recebe uma comissão por esse trabalho. Existem várias formas de comissionamento, mas o conceito é semelhante em todas elas, ou seja, você promove algo em troca de uma fatia do valor dessa venda gerada.
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