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Bitcoin is a payment system introduced as open-source software in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto. The payments in the system are recorded in a public ledger using its own unit of account, which is also called bitcoin. Payments work peer-to-peer without a central repository or single administrator, which has led the US Treasury to call bitcoin a decentralized virtual currency. Although its status as a currency is disputed, media reports often refer to bitcoin as a cryptocurrency or digital currency.

Bitcoins are created as a reward for payment processing work in which users offer their computing power to verify and record payments into the public ledger. Called mining, individuals or companies engage in this activity in exchange for transaction fees and newly created bitcoins. Besides mining, bitcoins can be obtained in exchange for fiat money, products, and services. Users can send and receive bitcoins electronically for an optional transaction fee using wallet software on a personal computer, mobile device, or a web application.

Bitcoin as a form of payment for products and services has seen growth,and merchants have an incentive to accept the digital currency because fees are lower than the 2-3% typically imposed by credit card processors. The European Banking Authority has warned that bitcoin lacks consumer protections. Unlike credit cards, any fees are paid by the purchaser not the vendor. Bitcoins can be stolen and chargebacks are impossible. Commercial use of bitcoin is currently small compared to its use by speculators, which has fueled price volatility.

Bitcoin has been a subject of scrutiny amid concerns that it can be used for illegal activities. In October 2013 the US FBI shut down the Silk Road online black market and seized 144,000 bitcoins worth US$28.5 million at the time. The US is considered bitcoin-friendly compared to other governments. In China, buying bitcoins with yuan is subject to restrictions, and bitcoin exchanges are not allowed to hold bank accounts.
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Idle Processor Utilization Services, LLC

What We Do -

Here at Idle Processor Utilization Services, LLC, we purchase unused/under-utilized/idle computer processing power. We pay our providers (you) a fair price, then we re-package and sell it at a profit. 100% OF OUR ANNUAL PROFITS are distributed to our Members, which includes all Division Account Managers. It is our goal to distribute the ownership of Idle Processor Utilization Services, LLC, equally, to ANY Member who wishes to invest time, money, and energy into this endeavor. This is not altruism - this is fair compensation for hard work, planning, and execution.

What YOU Do -

You EARN MONEY by simply downloading our Process Software, then leaving your computer on. That's it. No purchase is necessary at all for you to earn money. Simply Register (below), and download the process software. That's it. Of course, you can easily multiply your earnings if you wish, although doing so is not required. You may build a referral list (you make % of referral's earnings), you may upgrade your membership, you may build (or buy) a downline, you may install more computers, etc. The possibilities - and the earning potential - are endless. What you earn is completely up to you!You never have to invest a penny to make money at Idle Processor Utilization Services. When it is released, simply download the small Processor application, let it run in the background, and use your computer as you normally would. You will never know it is there, unless you want to view it to see what your pay rate is, information on your referrals/downline are, etc. You never have to do a thing if you do not want to, and you will still earn money.But there is a higher level available; a Division Account Manager.Let's compare the earnings possibilities of both Standard and Division Accounts.Say you are a Standard Member, and you invite 10 members. Each of those invites 10 members, and each of THOSE invite 10 each, and so on, down 4 levels. Let's also say everyone with the Processor Software installed is earning $1 per day each from their computer..As a Standard member, you would earn your $1 for your machine. You also earn 5% of the next level down (10 machines @ $1 = $10 X 5% = .50),), so .50 cents You would earn 1% on the next level (100 machines @ $1 = $100 X 1% = $1) or $1 You would not earn at any further levels down, But still, $2.50 per day, DOING NOTHING. Not too bad at all.Take the same number of members involved, but with you being a DIVISION MANAGER;You would earn your $1 for your machine. You also earn 10% of the next level down (10 machines @ $1 = $10 X 10% = $1), so $1. You would earn 5% on the next level (100 machines @ $1 = $100 X 5% = $5) or $5. You would earn 1% on the next level (1000 machines @ $1 = $1000 X 1% = $10) or $10.That adds up to $17 PER DAY as a Division Manager!There will only ever be 1000 Division Managers, and +/- 925 of those spots are already claimed.Additional benefits from being a Division Account Manager;

Ownership of IPU Services - Ownership of the company is equally divided between all of the Division Managers - they are all part-owners, and all get a cut. Bottom line? The earnings potential is 10X or more than that of a Standard Membership.

Management Software - Online downline management software ? keep in touch with standard members below you, be a leader, and an example.

Immediate Downline - We will immediately assign ten members underneath you upon becoming a Division Manager, and you receive these plus any members THEY get, etc.

Employment Opportunities - We always have employment opportunities, but they are only available to Division Account Managers. Right now, in fact, we are looking for a Forum Master. We have already hired the Ticket System Manager and the LiveHelp Coordinator.

Free Webhosting - We supply you with a sub-page on www.ipuservices.com to promote yourself, promote IPU Services, and to help build your downline.

As for added responsibilities, well, you are not OBLIGATED to do anything additional, but it is suggested that you use our management software, which allows you to communicate with your downline. They can communicate with you and vice versa, as you should be their "leader" if you will. You would act as their representative.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

What is IPU Services?

Idle Processing Utilization Services is a startup company that "rents" computer power from individual computer users. It then packages this processing power / IP addresses to then be "rented out" at a profit. 100% of profits are shared with all Division Account Managers.

Do I have to pay for "Threads"?

No - As a standard member, you never have to pay for anything - we pay you. If you wish to upgrade to a Regional or Division Account Manager, there are annual fees involved - but the income potential increases dramatically.

What is the software I am downloading? Is it a virus?

No, the Processor software you are downloading has two purposes; One, it advises you of your current statistics, usage, income, and processing power / payment rate on your screen as it runs. It can be minimized and you won't even know it is there. Two, it is a type of VPS (Virtual Private Server). It is no more obtrusive than a web browser, and there is NEVER ANY CONNECTION to any of your personal data or software. It is completely encapsulated, unobtrusive, and safe.

Will using this degrade the performance of my computer?

ABSOLUTELY NOT. As the name implies, the software is only active when the computer is otherwise idle. When you are using your computer, the Process takes a back seat and waits for idle time. This is all done automatically.

I have a (Insert your 20 year old computer name here), can I install the Process on that?

Yes you can. However, your earnings potential is directly proportional to your available computer power - Computer power is calculated using factors such as processor type, RAM, GPU (if any), connection speed, and % of time online.

May I install the Process on more than one computer?

Of course - you can install the Process on as many different computers as you want. DO NOT, however, install multiple instances on one machine (VirtualBox, Sanboxie, etc.) We will know, you will get caught, and your account will be cancelled and your IP will be banned. Rules are very simple - "One Computer, One Install"

Where can I find out how I can be banned? Is there an appeal process?

We will not be posting a page with every possible scenario. If you do anything for the purpose of increasing your income without actually adding a new computer to the mix, it is probably a bad idea. You know when you are cheating. So will we.

But XYZ Company pays $1 a day for my (Insert your 20 year old computer name here)

They won't for long. There is no process, legal or otherwise, that makes a Windows XP box with 512k ram worth $1 a day. But, deep down, you already knew this.

Are you associated with XYZ Company that pays $1/day for anything that plugs into the wall, including toasters?

NO. Absolutely NO. In fact, we are horrified and ashamed to be thought of as the same type of company. We are completely the opposite, as we are legitimate.

Ah - I figured it out - You BTC / LiteCoin Mine!

Ugh, no. Mining on a CPU network is a waste of electricity. Quite soon, GPUs will be worthless to mine on as well. Mining is not even of the most remote interest to us.

So what DOES IPU Services do on my computer?

NOTHING. IPU Services runs nothing on you computer for ourselves. The customers that purchase computer/processor time run anything they want, as long as it is legal and in the shell of our Processor - and only when you are not using the computer.

Do you really show your financial statements?

Absolutely Yes! We strongly believe our slogan - "Authenticity and Accountability thru Transparancy". You are trusting us, so we share everything with you. There will never be a question on where the money is coming from or where it is going.

How do I get Paid?

You can be paid with PayPal, Payza, EgoPay, AlertPay,GreenDot MoneyPak, Western Union, Check or Money Order. All fees associated with the payment method you choose are borne by you. The Minimum Payout is $50USD

$50?!? Why such a high minimum payout?

Think about it - with, say, 200,000 participants and a minimum payout of a buck, 90% of our time would be spent coordinating payments to our members. It is a poor business model. Plus, a larger minimum payout fosters a longer-term commitment to the project. We purchase and sell computer power, we are not a payment processor.

With a $50 minimum draw out, how many days will it take me to reach $50?

That is totally dependant on the computer power of the machine that the Process is installed on, but we anticipate anywhere from 12 days to never.

What is the Virtual Office Affiliate Program?

It's freeThere's no charge to join our affiliate network. Get started easily

How It Works

Making money has never been this simple. By sending new customers/visitors to Virtual Office 

site via a link or a banner, you can earn $500+ per month. You simply choose a banner or link of 

your choice from our links & banner tab and we will track the traffic made from your referral links.

We supply all the tools for you and handle all the fulfillment details, such as links, HTML 

codes,banners and support. All you have to do is to place these links and banners in your email 

signatures, blogs, forums, websites etc., - and make money.

Commission rates

You will receive $0.55 USD commission on every traffic that comes through your referral links & banners.

Payouts

You will receive commission payouts on the 15th of every month (if your balance is at least $100) 

via International Bank wire, Plimus, PayPal, Fund transfer, Netbanking, Xpress Money, western 

union, moneygram, etc.

1. Who is Virtual Office Inc.?

Virtual Office is internet's first virtual corporate office offering different types of jobs worldwide.

2. What is the Virtual Office Affiliate Program?

The Virtual Office Affiliate Program is a way for you to earn commissions by placing banner ads 

or text links on your website, emails, blogs, forum signatures, direct mailing, mass mailing and 

other ways to refer customers to virtualofficejob.com. 

You'll earn money every time a visitor follows a virtualofficejob.com link on your Web site, email 

link etc. THAT'S IT. NO SELLING NO JOINING ETC. You get paid just for referring someone 

to virtualofficejob.com

3. Why should I join the Virtual Office Affiliate Program?

As an affiliate, you can offer your visitors access to the most reliable and affordable online jobs at 

virtualofficejob.com And every time your visitors follow a link from your Web site or email link or 

through any other platform to virtualofficejob.com, you’ll receive a commission of $0.55 USD

4. Can foreign affiliates apply?

All affiliates are welcome in our affiliate network.

5. Why should I become an affiliate?

1. Incentives from 2nd month onwards.

2. Free Designation upgrade 

Executive -> Admin (After 2 months)

Admin -> Manager (After 3 months)

3. Daily WIN FREE CASH ($1USD to $10 USD).

More on DesignationsAs its virtual global office 

and all employees here are interlinked to each other in a manner similar to corporate office,all 3 

designations too are interlinked with each other.

More on DesignationsAs

its virtual global office and all employees here are interlinked to each other in a manner similar 

to corporate office,all 3 designations too are interlinked with each other.

Virtual Office Executive

Virtual office executive is one of the best job opportunities for millions of data entry operators, 

work at home moms, students, part time job workers to make a decent income every month by 

doing simple data entry typing job. Executive job will include only typing work, i.e. 100% pure text 

typing only. Every EXECUTIVE is allotted a weekly task. You have to complete the task in 7 

days. You won't be getting a big task which is hard/impossible to finish in 7 days. Each task can be 

easily completed in a time frame of 3-4 days. However for your flexibility you've around 7 days to 

submit work. You'll have complete freedom to select tasks of your choice only.Types of Task:-We 

won't be giving you a difficult task like programming, software development, designing work, 

logical work, PDF2Text conversion, tables, images etc. Work will be only related to data entry 

typing, simple text typing without tables and images.

Frequently asked questions?

1. Who can apply for this job & skills required?

Anyone having basic knowledge of internet surfing, typing speed of around 20-30 WPM

 can apply for this job.

2. How to get started?

It's very simple and hardly takes 2 minutes to get started. 

Your first step is to register on this website. Once you register, 

your EMPLOYEE ID will be generated. You'll get welcome email with login details. 

You've to login with employee id and password to start work.

3. How to start work?

Once you login to my account section you can find different tabs, TASK TAB (Apply for New) will 

display the list of available tasks. 

Before applying to any task you can read the instructions, 

after that whatever task you are interested to do, just click Apply.

Once applied to any task, you won't be able to do any further task until and unless you 

complete this task in 7 days or before 7 days time duration for the task is over. 

If you have completed the task before last submission date or in less than 7 days, 

you'll find option to go for next task.

Active Tab - will display details of running task or task you are doing.

Completed Tab - will display list of tasks you have completed.

4. What happens if I'm unable to complete the task in time?

If you are unable to complete the given task in 7 days time period, 

whatever work you've done respective earning will be added to your account & will be released 

during payout time.

5. What will be the work load of each task?

The task will be very easy to complete in just 3 days, for which you will get 1 week time. Let's say 

for example, you are applying to a task of form filling, and task includes to do 300 form filling 

submissions in a week. This means around 42 form submission per day, which one can easily do in 

24hrs. There is no target for a particular day, just before end of last submission date respective 

no. of work should be completed.

6. What if I did less no. of work in a task, will my account be terminated?

No your account will be active. 

Whatever amount is earned by you will be credited to your account. 

Account will be terminated only when there is no activity from your end for 3 months.

7. How will I know if I'm doing the correct work?

Your work is checked every minute by appointed Manager, 

who verifies all your work as per the task instruction. 

If work done is not correct, you will see rejected message under work summary 

tab with details of error and how to correct same. Once you submit a work, their status are set as 

Pending | Rejected | Approved.

Pending :- Work awaiting checking by Manager

Rejected : - Work rejected by Manager

Approved : - Work Approved by Manager

You'll only be paid for APPROVED WORK.

8. What happens when work is approved?

Once work is approved you can check same under work summary tab. 

For every approved work, your earnings are udpated too. Inside My account section,

you'll find the tabs like Work Summary, Earning Summary.

Work summary - All the work done from your end, will display work status as pending, 

approved or rejected.

Earning Summary - Overall Earnings w.r.t work done of particular task.

9. How much monthly payouts I'll get?

Each task will be of $250 USD and of 7 days. That means every month you can do 4 tasks, if you 

complete each task in time. Having 4 task means earning around $1000 USD. Even if you are 

making little bit of mistakes you can expect your earning between $800 - $1000 USD per month.

10. How and when will I'm going to get my earnings?

In My Account section there is an option called - Payout method. You'll be paid as per the payout 

method you select here. Normally we send payouts though Bank Wire, 

PayPal, 2Checkout, Plimus, Fund transfer, Netbanking, NEFT/RTGS, MoneyGram & 

Xpressmoney only.Payouts are sent every 15th & 30th of the month, 

and same will be delivered or credited to your account in less than 7 days.

Incase of non reciept of payment you can contact our support team, using contact us page.

11. Incentives?

Candidates successfully completing 4 weekly tasks in a month, without any lapse, will get 15% 

incentive of total earnings in particular month.

12. How to enroll?

First register on website, get your Employee ID & Password.

Next for Executive Designation you need to pay a One time Registration

Fees of $100 USD or Rs.6200 INR. 100% Refundable if you change your mind within 10 days of 

activation.

Why should i pay?

Amount you pay includes server charges, account setup fees, monthly work report, 24hrs. support 

fees, postal charges, Bank transaction charges and other charges for 1 year.

Work Summary

Type of work : simple data entry job work

Total Task : 4 task every month (Each task will be of 7 days).

Work load in each task : Between 30 to 500 entries, but not more than 500.

Each entry will be around 3-5 lines and in some cases around 10-20 words only. 

One can easily do 500 entries in 3-4 days, however we will give you around 7 days 

to do things perfectly and with ease.

For each entries you'll be paid $0.5 USD. 

If entries are less, per entry amount will be more.

For example if in a particular task you have to do only 25 entries, 

that means you will be paid $10 USD per entry.

Total Amount per task : $250 USD

Payout : Bimonthly means you'll be paid twice in a month i.e. on 15th and 30th. In other words, 

you'll be paid after every 2 task, each task is of 7 days.

Total payment every month $1000 USD

Contract Period : 12 Months.

Payment will be sent directly to your bank account worldwide. 

We dont send payment through cheque.Your Designation will upgrade after 2 months to Admin 

and after 4 months from joining to Manager. However if you want to directly start work as Admin 

or Manager check details. Interested candidates please follow below steps to get started.

Pay Rs.6200 or $100 USD through fund transfer, Netbanking, 3rd party transfer or bank wire 

transfer if you are outside india.

Bank details

Bank Name: AXIS Bank

Account No.: 911020051022601

Account Holder Name: Rackspace Outsourcing

Account Type: Current Account

Branch Name: Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA

IFSC/RTGS/NEFT Code: UTIB0000072

SWIFT Code: AXISINBB072 (Required if you are doing bank wire transfer from outside india)

After making payment either send SMS on (+91-9220925433) or email us 

(virtualofficejob.team @gmail.com) full payment details and make sure to mention, for Virtual 

Office Job.If you didnt understood anything or need more info please feel free to call us anytime.

Executive PayoutType of work : simple data entry job work

Total Task : 4 task every month (Each task will be of 7 days).

Work load in each task : Between 30 to 500 entries, but not more than 500. 

Each entry will be around 3-5 lines and in some cases around 10-20 words only. 

One can easily do 500 entries in 3-4 days, however we will give you around 7 days to do things 

perfectly and with ease. For each entries you'll be paid $0.5 USD. If entries are less, 

per entry amount will be more. For example if in a particular task you have to do only 25 entries, 

that nmeas you will be paid $10 USD per entry.

Total Amount per task : $250 USD

Payout : Bimonthly means you'll be paid twice in a month i.e. on 15th and 30th. In other words, 

you'll be paid after every 2 task or 14 days whichever is earlier, each task is of 7 days.

Total payment every month $1000 USD

Contract Period : 12 Months.

Payment will be sent directly to your bank account worldwide. We dont send payment through 

cheque.

How to Register?

First register on website, get your Employee ID & Password.

Pay Rs.6200 or $100 USD through fund transfer, Netbanking, 3rd party transfer or bank wire 

transfer if you are outside india.

Bank details

Bank Name: AXIS Bank

Account No.: 911020051022601

Account Holder Name: Rackspace Outsourcing

Account Type: Current Account

Branch Name: Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA

IFSC/RTGS/NEFT Code: UTIB0000072

SWIFT Code: AXISINBB072 (Required if you are doing bank wire transfer from outside india)

After making payment either send SMS on (+91-9220925433) or email us (virtualofficejob.team 

@gmail.com) full payment details and make sure to mention, for Virtual Office Job.

If you didnt understood anything or need more info please feel free to call us anytime.

Admin Overview

If you're looking a corporate job with little bit of responsibility this is the right job for you, 

ADMIN JOB.Virtual office Admin role is to allot different types of tasks to EXECUTIVES in a 

balanced manner. The tasks created by ADMIN are randomly distributed amoung Virtual office 

EXECUTIVES. This is one of the most promising job with 100% satisfaction in terms of work and 

payouts.What type of tasks ADMIN has to create?:-Admin work is 100% data entry typing, as 

an admin all you've to do here is create different types of task related to typing job work. We will 

guide you with complete lists of typing projects for which you have to create task. We will also 

provide you with full instructions, contents, samples etc. required to create a task.

Frequently asked questions?

 1. Who can apply for this job & skills required?

Anyone having basic knowledge of internet surfing, typing speed of around 20-30 WPM can apply for this job.

2. How to get started?

It's very simple and hardly takes 2 minutes to get started. 

Your first step is to register on this website. Once you register, 

your EMPLOYEE ID will be generated. You'll get welcome email with login details. 

You've to login with employee id and password to start work.

3. How to start work?

Once you login to my account section you can find different tabs -

Overview Tab : Here you'll find basic instructions do's & dont't about Admin job.

How to work Tab : This will guide you in detail regarding how to create different tasks.

Start work Tab : Here you'll find task form with 5 fields like

Task type - include dropdown list of all task categories for which you have to create task.

Task name - Here you've to enter valid meaningful title for the task. We will guide you on how to 

write valid task name/title. We will provide you with sample contents for task name.

Task Detail - Here you've to provide full instruction about task, and how to the task should be 

completed by the Data Entry Executives. We will provide you with sample contents for task detail.

Quanity & Amount field will be auto filled by the system. So in short you have complete just 2 f

fields in form task name and its detail. That's it and you've created one task.

4. How much time it takes to create single task?

In the starting it will take around 2-3 minutes, however once you understood everything it will 

hardly take 1 minute.

5. How many tasks I've to create daily, Is there any daily / weekly / monthly target?

Good thing is that, there is no target. You can create unlimited tasks daily.

6. What happens after I create a task?

Once you create a task, you can find same in WORK SUMMARY TAB,here you will find 

different status in front of task created by you -Pending - means checking of your task by 

Mananger is pending.

Rejected - means Manager rejected your task, valid reason will be provided to you. After that 

you can edit the task and correct it for rechecking.

Approved - means manager approved your task. Once task is approved you cannot edit or delete 

it, as it is immediately allotted to data entry executives. You can only edit or delete REJECTED &

PENDING tasks.7. How will I know if I'm doing the correct work?Your work is checked every 

minute by appointed Manager, who verifies all your work as per the task instruction.

If work done is not correct, you will see rejected message under work summary tab with 

details of error and how to correct same. Correct work will have approved status. 

You'll only be paid for APPROVED WORK.

8. What happens when tasks are approved?

Once task is approved you can check same under work summary tab. With every approved task, 

your earnings are udpated too. Inside My account section, you'll find the tabs 

like Work Summary, Earning Summary.Work summary - All the work done from your end, will 

display work status as pending, approved or rejected.

Earning Summary - Overall Earnings w.r.t - approved task9. What will be my monthly payout?As 

said earlier in above points, you create unlimited task and so earning will be unlimited. You'll be 

paid $0.45 USD or Rs.28/- for every approved task.

Let's see monthly earning estimation :-

(A) No. of task you create daily - 115 (If you spend 3-4 hrs.)

(B) Total Earning daily @ $0.45 USD = 115 x 0.45 = $51.75 USD

(C) Monthly Earning = $51.75 USD x 30 days = $1552.50 USD10. Will there be any type of 

deduction for rejected tasks?No. Infact you'll get chance to either correct errors or delete 

same.11. How and when will I'm going to get my earnings?In My Account section there is an 

option called - Payout method. You'll be paid as per the payout method you select here. Normally 

we send payouts though Bank Wire, PayPal, 2Checkout, Plimus, Fund transfer, Netbanking, 

NEFT/RTGS, Money Gram & Xpressmoney only. Payouts are sent Bi-monthly, means twice in a 

month i.e. every 15th and 30th of the month & same will be delivered or credited to your account 

in less than 7 days.12. Incentives?Candidates successfully creating more than 200 tasks in a 

month, will get 15% incentive of total earnings in particular month.13. How to enroll?First register 

on website, get your Employee ID & Password. Next for ADMIN Designation you need to pay a 

One time Registration Fees of $130 USD or Rs.8000 INR 100% Refundable if you change your 

mind within 10 days of activation.Why should i pay?

Amount you pay includes server charges, account setup fees, monthly work report, 24hrs. support 

fees, postal charges, Bank transaction charges and other charges for 1 year. Work Summary

Type of work : simple data entry typing job work

Work load : Create unlimited tasks.

Amount per task : $0.45 USD

Payout : Bimonthly means you'll be paid twice in a month i.e. on 15th and 30th.

Total estimated payment every month $2000 USD

Contract Period : 12 Months.

Payment will be sent directly to your bank account worldwide. We dont send payment through 

cheque.Your Designation will upgrade to Manager after 4 months from joining . However if you 

want to directly start work as Manager, check Manager details >> Interested candidates please 

follow below steps to get started. Pay Rs.6200 or $100 USD through fund transfer, Netbanking, 

3rd party transfer or bank wire transfer if you are outside india.

Bank details

Bank Name: AXIS Bank

Account No.: 911020051022601

Account Holder Name: Rackspace Outsourcing

Account Type: Current Account

Branch Name: Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA

IFSC/RTGS/NEFT Code: UTIB0000072

SWIFT Code: AXISINBB072 (Required if you are doing bank wire transfer from outside india)

After making payment either send SMS on (+91-9220925433) or email us (virtualofficejob.team @ gmail.com) full payment details and make sure to mention, for Virtual Office Job.If you didnt understood anything or need more info please feel free to call us anytime.

Admin PayoutType of work : simple data entry typing job work

Work load : Create unlimited tasks.

Amount per task : $0.45 USD

Payout : Bimonthly means you'll be paid twice in a month i.e. on 15th and 30th.

Total estimated payment every month $2000 USD

Contract Period : 12 Months.

Payment will be sent directly to your bank account worldwide.

How to Register?First register on website, get your Employee ID & Password.

Pay Rs.8000 or $130 USD through fund transfer, Netbanking, 3rd party transfer or bank wire 

transfer if you are outside india.

Bank details

Bank Name: AXIS Bank

Account No.: 911020051022601

Account Holder Name: Rackspace Outsourcing

Account Type: Current Account

Branch Name: Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA

IFSC/RTGS/NEFT Code: UTIB0000072

SWIFT Code: AXISINBB072 (Required if you are doing bank wire transfer from outside india)

After making payment either send SMS on (+91-9220925433) or email us (virtualofficejob.team 

@gmail.com) full payment details and make sure to mention, for Virtual Office Job.If you didnt 

understood anything or need more info please feel free to call us anytime.

Virtual Office Manager

As the name indicates, you're the boss here who manages all the tasks and work done by 

EXECUTIVES AND ADMIN. Here 99% of you job includes checking of work done by 

EXECUTIVES & ADMIN and 1% includes typing work. This is one of the most exciting position 

to work on, you can even work from your mobile at any time and any place.

Manager PayoutType of work : simple data entry checking work

Work load : Check unlimited tasks & work.

Amount per task checking : $0.35 USD

Amount per work checking : $0.30 USD

Payout dates : Bimonthly means you'll be paid twice in a month i.e. 15th and 30th of every month.

Total estimated payment every month $2850 USD

Contract Period : 12 Months.

Payment will be sent directly to your bank account worldwide. We dont send payment through 

paypal, cheque etc. Interested candidates please follow below steps to get started.

How to Register?

First register on website, get your Employee ID & Password.

Pay Rs.10000 or $160 USD through fund transfer, Netbanking, 3rd party transfer or bank wire 

transfer if you are outside india.

Bank details

Bank Name: AXIS Bank

Account No.: 911020051022601

Account Holder Name: Rackspace Outsourcing

Branch Name: Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA

IFSC/RTGS/NEFT Code: UTIB0000072

SWIFT Code: AXISINBB072 (Required if you are doing bank wire transfer from outside india)

After making payment either send SMS on (+91-9220925433) or email us (virtualofficejob.team 

@gmail.com) full payment details and make sure to mention, for Virtual Office Job.If you didnt 

understood anything or need more info please feel free to call us anytime.

Frequently asked questions

1. Who can apply for this job & skills required?

Anyone having basic knowledge of internet surfing, typing speed of around 20-30 WPM can apply 

for this job.

2. How to get started?It's very simple and hardly takes 2 minutes to get started. Your first step is 

to register on this website. Once you register, your EMPLOYEE ID will be generated. You'll get 

welcome email with login details. You've to login with employee id and password to start work.

3. How to start work?Once you login to my account section you can find different tabs like -

Pending Task - displays list of task awaiting checking.

Checked Task - displays list of checked task.

Pending work - displays list of work awaiting checking.

Checked Work - displays list of checked work.

All you've to do here, checking of pending tasks and pending work. These list will be updated 

every minute. Once you do any checking it will be updated under checked task and checked work. 

Similarly your earning too will be updated.

4. How much time it takes to check a single task or work?

In the starting it will take around 1 minute, however once you understood everything it will hardly 

take 15-20 seconds.

5. How many tasks and work I've to check daily, Is there any daily / weekly / monthly target?

Good thing is that, there is no target. You can check unlimited tasks or work daily.

6. Is it compulsory to do checking of both task and work?

No. It's not compulsory. You can either check tasks or work or both, its upto you.

7. Can I do rechecking of any task or work?

Yes you can do rechecking of any task or work by using the edit option. However you won't be 

paid any thing for rechecking.

8. Will I be paid if I approve or reject any work or task?

yes you will be paid for every checking no matter whether you approve or reject.

9. Will my work be checked by any other body?

Yes your checking work will be regularly checked by our department in order to make sure you're 

doing the right job.

10. Will my account be terminated if i don't do any checking work?

Your account will be terminated only if we dont find any type of activity for 3 months.

11. What happens after I checked tasks and work?

Once you do the checking, all earnings you can find under EARNING SUMMARY tab.

12. How much I'll be paid for checking the work?

Payment details

For each Task checking you get $0.35 USD

For each Work checking you get $0.30 USD13. Maximum amount I can earn in this job?

Earning is unlimited & its upto you, how many task and work you check.

14. What will be my monthly payout?

As said earlier in above points, you can check unlimited task and work. so earning 

will be unlimited.

Let's see monthly earning estimation :-

TASK

(A) No. of task you check daily - 100 (If you spend 2 hrs.)

(B) Total Earning daily @ $0.35 USD = 100 x 0.35 = $35 USD

(C) Monthly Earning = $35 USD x 30 days = $1050 USD

WORK

(D) No. of work you check daily - 200 (If you spend 2 hrs.)

(E) Total Earning daily @ $0.30 USD = 200 x $0.30 USD = $60 USD

(F) Monthly Earning = $60 USD x 30 days = $1800 USD

Overall Estimated Gross Earning = C + F = $2850 USD15. 

How and when will I'm going to get my earnings?

In My Account section there is an option called - Payout method. You'll be paid as per the payout 

method you select here. Normally we send payouts though International Bank Wire, PayPal, 

2Checkout, Plimus, Fund transfer, Netbanking, NEFT/RTGS, Money Gram & Xpressmoney only.

Payouts are sent Bi-monthly, means twice in a month i.e. every 15th and 30th of the month & 

same will be delivered or credited to your account in less than 7 days.

16. Incentives?

Candidates successfully checking more than 1000 tasks & work in a month, will get 15% 

incentive of total earnings in particular month.

17. How to enroll?

First register on website, get your Employee ID & Password.

Next for MANAGER Designation you need to pay a One time Registration 

Fees of $160 USD or Rs.10000 INR 100% Refundable if you change your mind 

within 10 days of activation.

Why should i pay?

Amount you pay includes server charges, account setup fees, monthly work report, 24hrs. 

support fees, postal charges, Bank transaction charges and other charges for 1 year.

Work Summary

Type of work : simple data entry checking work

Work load : Check unlimited tasks & work.

Amount per task checking : $0.35 USD

Amount per work checking : $0.30 USD

Payout dates : Bimonthly means you'll be paid twice in a month i.e. 15th and 30th of every month.

Total estimated payment every month $2850 USD

Contract Period : 12 Months.

Payment will be sent directly to your bank account worldwide. 

We dont send payment through paypal, cheque etc. 

Interested candidates please follow below steps to get started.

Pay Rs.10000 or $160 USD through fund transfer, Netbanking, 3rd party transfer or bank wire 

transfer if you are outside india.

Bank details

Bank Name: AXIS Bank

Account No.: 911020051022601

Account Holder Name: Rackspace Outsourcing

Account Type: Current Account

Branch Name: Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA

IFSC/RTGS/NEFT Code: UTIB0000072

SWIFT Code: AXISINBB072 (Required if you are doing bank wire transfer from outside india)

After making payment either send SMS on (+91-9220925433) or email us (virtualofficejob.team 

@gmail.com) full payment details and make sure to mention, for Virtual Office Job.If you didnt 

understood anything or need more info please feel free to call us anytime.

  
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What is Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing                   

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as 'retailer' or 'brand'), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as 'the affiliate'), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity, resulting in the emergence of a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third party vendors.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization (SEO), paid search engine marketing (PPC - Pay Per Click), e-mail marketing, content marketing and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.
Affiliate marketing is commonly confused with referral marketing, as both forms of marketing use third parties to drive sales to the retailer.However, both are distinct forms of marketing and the main difference between them is that affiliate marketing relies purely on financial motivations to drive sales while referral marketing relies on trust and personal relationships to drive sales.
Affiliate marketing is frequently overlooked by advertisers.While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.

Contents

1 History
1.1 Origin
1.2 Historic development
1.3 Web 2.0
2    Compensation methods
2.1 Predominant compensation methods
2.2 Diminished compensation methods
2.3 Performance/Affiliate marketing
3    Multi-tier programs
4    From the advertiser's perspective
4.1 Pros and cons
4.2 Implementation options
4.3 Affiliate management and program management outsourcing
4.4 Types of affiliate websites
4.5 Publisher recruitment
5    Locating affiliate programs
6    Past and current issues
6.1 E-mail spam
6.2 Search engine spam
6.3 Consumer countermeasures
6.4 Adware
6.5 Trademark bidding
6.6 Lack of self-regulation and collaboration
7    Compensation Disclosure
7.1 Lack of industry standards
7.1.1 Certification and training
7.1.2 Code of conduct
7.2 Marketing term
7.3 Sales tax vulnerability
7.4 Cookie stuffing
7.5 Click to reveal
8    See also
9    References
10  External links

History  Origin

The concept of revenue sharing—paying commission for referred business—predates affiliate marketing and the Internet. The translation of the revenue share principles to mainstream e-commerce happened in November 1994,almost four years after the origination of the World Wide Web.
The concept of affiliate marketing on the Internet was conceived of, put into practice and patented by William J. Tobin, the founder of PC Flowers & Gifts. Launched on the Prodigy Network in 1989, PC Flowers & Gifts remained on the service until 1996. By 1993, PC Flowers & Gifts generated sales in excess of $6 million per year on the Prodigy service. In 1998, PC Flowers and Gifts developed the business model of paying a commission on sales to The Prodigy network.
In 1994, Tobin launched a beta version of PC Flowers & Gifts on the Internet in cooperation with IBM, who owned half of Prodigy.By 1995 PC Flowers & Gifts had launched a commercial version of the website and had 2,600 affiliate marketing partners on the World Wide Web. Tobin applied for a patent on tracking and affiliate marketing on January 22, 1996 and was issued U.S. Patent number 6,141,666 on Oct 31, 2000. Tobin also received Japanese Patent number 4021941 on Oct 5, 2007 and U.S. Patent number 7,505,913 on Mar 17, 2009 for affiliate marketing and tracking.[7] In July 1998 PC Flowers and Gifts merged with Fingerhut and Federated Department Stores.
Cybererotica was among the early innovators in affiliate marketing with a cost per click program.
In November 1994, CDNOW launched its BuyWeb program. CDNOW had the idea that music-oriented websites could review or list albums on their pages that their visitors might be interested in purchasing. These websites could also offer a link that would take visitors directly to CDNOW to purchase the albums. The idea for remote purchasing originally arose from conversations with music label Geffen Records in the fall of 1994. The management at Geffen wanted to sell its artists' CD's directly from its website, but did not want to implement this capability itself. Geffen asked CDNOW if it could design a program where CDNOW would handle the order fulfillment. Geffen realized that CDNOW could link directly from the artist on its website to Geffen's website, bypassing the CDNOW home page and going directly to an artist's music page.
Amazon.com (Amazon) launched its associate program in July 1996: Amazon associates could place banner or text links on their site for individual books, or link directly to the Amazon home page.
When visitors clicked from the associate's website to Amazon and purchased a book, the associate received a commission. Amazon was not the first merchant to offer an affiliate program, but its program was the first to become widely known and serve as a model for subsequent programs.
In February 2000, Amazon announced that it had been granted a patent on components of an affiliate program. The patent application was submitted in June 1997, which predates most affiliate programs, but not PC Flowers & Gifts.com (October 1994), AutoWeb.com (October 1995), Kbkids.com/BrainPlay.com (January 1996), EPage (April 1996), and several others.

Historic development

Affiliate marketing has grown quickly since its inception. The e-commerce website, viewed as a marketing toy in the early days of the Internet, became an integrated part of the overall business plan and in some cases grew to a bigger business than the existing offline business. According to one report, the total sales amount generated through affiliate networks in 2006 was £2.16 billion in the United Kingdom alone. The estimates were £1.35 billion in sales in 2005. MarketingSherpa's research team estimated that, in 2006, affiliates worldwide earned US$6.5 billion in bounty and commissions from a variety of sources in retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, education, publishing, and forms of lead generation other than contextual advertising programs.
In 2006, the most active sectors for affiliate marketing were the adult, gambling, retail industries and file-sharing services.The three sectors expected to experience the greatest growth are the mobile phone, finance, and travel sectors.Soon after these sectors came the entertainment (particularly gaming) and Internet-related services (particularly broadband) sectors. Also several of the affiliate solution providers expect to see increased interest from business-to-business marketers and advertisers in using affiliate marketing as part of their mix.[

Web 2.0

Websites and services based on Web 2.0 concepts—blogging and interactive online communities, for example—have impacted the affiliate marketing world as well. The new media allowed merchants to become closer to their affiliates and improved the communication between them.
Web 2.0 platforms have also opened affiliate marketing channels to personal bloggers, writers, and independent website owners. Regardless of web traffic, size, or business age, programs through eBay, Google, LinkShare, Clickbank and Amazon allow publishers at all levels of web traffic to place contextual ads in blog posts.
Forms of new media have also diversified how companies, brands, and ad networks serve ads to visitors. For instance, YouTube allows video-makers to embed advertisements through Google's affiliate network.


Compensation methods

Main article: Compensation methods
Predominant compensation methods
Eighty percent of affiliate programs today use revenue sharing or pay per sale (PPS) as a compensation method, nineteen percent use cost per action (CPA), and the remaining programs use other methods such as cost per click (CPC) or cost per mille (CPM, cost per estimated 1000 views).

Diminished compensation methods

Within more mature markets, less than one percent of traditional affiliate marketing programs today use cost per click and cost per mille. However, these compensation methods are used heavily in display advertising and paid search.
Cost per mille requires only that the publisher make the advertising available on his website and display it to his visitors in order to receive a commission. Pay per click requires one additional step in the conversion process to generate revenue for the publisher: A visitor must not only be made aware of the advertisement, but must also click on the advertisement to visit the advertiser's website.
Cost per click was more common in the early days of affiliate marketing, but has diminished in use over time due to click fraud issues very similar to the click fraud issues modern search engines are facing today. Contextual advertising programs are not considered in the statistic pertaining to diminished use of cost per click, as it is uncertain if contextual advertising can be considered affiliate marketing.
While these models have diminished in mature e-commerce and online advertising markets they are still prevalent in some more nascent industries. China is one example where Affiliate Marketing does not overtly resemble the same model in the West. With many affiliates being paid a flat "Cost Per Day" with some networks offering Cost Per Click or CPM.

Performance/Affiliate marketing

In the case of cost per mille/click, the publisher is not concerned about a visitor being a member of the audience that the advertiser tries to attract and is able to convert, because at this point the publisher has already earned his commission. This leaves the greater, and, in case of cost per mille, the full risk and loss (if the visitor can not be converted) to the advertiser.
Cost per action/sale methods require that referred visitors do more than visit the advertiser's website before the affiliate receives commission. The advertiser must convert that visitor first. It is in the best interest for the affiliate to send the most closely targeted traffic to the advertiser as possible to increase the chance of a conversion. The risk and loss is shared between the affiliate and the advertiser.
Affiliate marketing is also called "performance marketing", in reference to how sales employees are typically being compensated. Such employees are typically paid a commission for each sale they close, and sometimes are paid performance incentives for exceeding objectives.Affiliates are not employed by the advertiser whose products or services they promote, but the compensation models applied to affiliate marketing are very similar to the ones used for people in the advertisers' internal sales department.
The phrase, "Affiliates are an extended sales force for your business", which is often used to explain affiliate marketing, is not completely accurate. The primary difference between the two is that affiliate marketers provide little if any influence on a possible prospect in the conversion process once that prospect is directed to the advertiser's website. The sales team of the advertiser, however, does have the control and influence up to the point where the prospect signs the contract or completes the purchase.

Multi-tier programs

Some advertisers offer multi-tier programs that distribute commission into a hierarchical referral network of sign-ups and sub-partners. In practical terms, publisher "A" signs up to the program with an advertiser and gets rewarded for the agreed activity conducted by a referred visitor. If publisher "A" attracts publishers "B" and "C" to sign up for the same program using his sign-up code, all future activities performed by publishers "B" and "C" will result in additional commission (at a lower rate) for publisher "A".
Two-tier programs exist in the minority of affiliate programs; most are simply one-tier. Referral programs beyond two-tier resemble multi-level marketing (MLM) or network marketing but are different: Multi-level marketing (MLM) or network marketing associations tend to have more complex commission requirements/qualifications than standard affiliate programs.
From the advertiser's perspective

Pros and cons

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Merchants favor affiliate marketing because in most cases it uses a "pay for performance" model, meaning that the merchant does not incur a marketing expense unless results are accrued (excluding any initial setup cost).Some businesses owe much of their success to this marketing technique, a notable example being Amazon.com.

Implementation options

Some merchants run their own (in-house) affiliate programs using popular software while others use third-party services provided by intermediaries to track traffic or sales that are referred from affiliates (see outsourced program management). Merchants can choose from two different types of affiliate management solutions: standalone software or hosted services, typically called affiliate networks. Payouts to affiliates or publishers are either made by the networks on behalf of the merchant, by the network, consolidated across all merchants where the publisher has a relationship with and earned commissions or directly by the merchant itself.

Affiliate management and program management outsourcing

Main article: Affiliate manager

Successful affiliate programs require significant work and maintenance. Having a successful affiliate program is more difficult than when such programs were just emerging. With the exception of some vertical markets, it is rare for an affiliate program to generate considerable revenue with poor management or no management ("auto-drive").
Uncontrolled affiliate programs aid rogue affiliates, who use spamming,trademark infringement, false advertising, cookie stuffing, typosquatting,and other unethical methods that have given affiliate marketing a

negative reputation.

The increased number of Internet businesses and the increased number of people that trust the current technology enough to shop and do business online allows further maturation of affiliate marketing.
The opportunity to generate a considerable amount of profit combined with a crowded marketplace filled with competitors of equal quality and size makes it more difficult for merchants to be noticed. In this environment, however, being noticed can yield greater rewards.
Recently, the Internet marketing industry has become more advanced. In some areas online media has been rising to the sophistication of offline media, in which advertising has been largely professional and competitive. There are significantly more requirements that merchants must meet to be successful, and those requirements are becoming too burdensome for the merchant to manage successfully in-house.
An increasing number of merchants are seeking alternative options found in relatively new outsourced (affiliate) program management (OPM) companies, which are often founded by veteran affiliate managers and network program managers.OPM companies perform affiliate program management for the merchants as a service, similar to advertising agencies promoting a brand or product as done in offline marketing.

Types of affiliate websites

Affiliate websites are often categorized by merchants (advertisers) and affiliate networks. There are currently no industry-wide standards for the categorization. The following types of websites are generic, yet are commonly understood and used by affiliate marketers.
Search affiliates that utilize pay per click search engines to promote the advertisers' offers (i.e., search arbitrage)

Comparison shopping websites and directories

Loyalty websites, typically characterized by providing a reward system for purchases via points back, cash back
CRM sites that offer charitable donations
Coupon and rebate websites that focus on sales promotions
Content and niche market websites, including product review sites

Personal websites

Weblogs and website syndication feeds
E-mail list affiliates (i.e., owners of large opt-in -mail lists that typically employ e-mail drip marketing) and newsletter list affiliates, which are typically more content-heavy
Registration path or co-registration affiliates who include offers from other merchants during the registration process on their own website
Shopping directories that list merchants by categories without providing coupons, price comparisons, or other features based on information that changes frequently, thus requiring continual updates
Cost per action networks (i.e., top-tier affiliates) that expose offers from the advertiser with which they are affiliated to their own network of affiliates
Websites using adbars (e.g. AdSense) to display context-sensitive, highly relevant ads for products on the site
Virtual Currency: a new type of publisher that utilizes the social media space to couple an advertiser's offer with a handout of "virtual currency" in a game or virtual platform.
Video Blog: Video content that allows viewers to click on and purchase products related to the video's subject.
File-Sharing: Web sites that host directories of music, movies, games and other software. Users upload content to file-hosting sites, and then post descriptions of the material and their download links on directory sites. Uploaders are paid by the file-hosting sites based on the number of times their files are downloaded. The file-hosting sites sell premium download access to the files to the general public. The web sites that host the directory services sell advertising and do not host the files themselves.

Publisher recruitment

Affiliate networks that already have several advertisers typically also have a large pool of publishers. These publishers could be potentially recruited, and there is also an increased chance that publishers in the network apply to the program on their own, without the need for recruitment efforts by the advertiser.
Relevant websites that attract the same target audiences as the advertiser but without competing with it are potential affiliate partners as well. Vendors or existing customers can also become recruits if doing so makes sense and does not violate any laws or regulations.
Almost any website could be recruited as an affiliate publisher, but high-traffic websites are more likely interested in (for their own sake) low-risk cost per mille or medium-risk cost per click deals rather than higher-risk cost per action or revenue share deals.
Locating affiliate programs
There are three primary ways to locate affiliate programs for a target website:

Affiliate program directories,

Large affiliate networks that provide the platform for dozens or even hundreds of advertisers, and
The target website itself. (Websites that offer an affiliate program often have a link titled "affiliate program", "affiliates", "referral program", or "webmasters"—usually in the footer or "About" section of the website.)
If the above locations do not yield information pertaining to affiliates, it may be the case that there exists a non-public affiliate program. Utilizing one of the common website correlation methods may provide clues about the affiliate network. The most definitive method for finding this information is to contact the website owner directly, if a contact method can be located.

Past and current issues

Since the emergence of affiliate marketing, there has been little control over affiliate activity. Unscrupulous affiliates have used spam, false advertising, forced clicks (to get tracking cookies set on users' computers), adware, and other methods to drive traffic to their sponsors. Although many affiliate programs have terms of service that contain rules against spam, this marketing method has historically proven to attract abuse from spammers.

E-mail spam

In the infancy of affiliate marketing, many Internet users held negative opinions due to the tendency of affiliates to use spam to promote the programs in which they were enrolled.As affiliate marketing matured, many affiliate merchants have refined their terms and conditions to prohibit affiliates from spamming.

Search engine spam

As search engines have become more prominent, some affiliate marketers have shifted from sending e-mail spam to creating automatically generated webpages that often contain product data feeds provided by merchants. The goal of such webpages is to manipulate the relevancy or prominence of resources indexed by a search engine, also known as spamdexing. Each page can be targeted to a different niche market through the use of specific keywords, with the result being a skewed form of search engine optimization.
Spam is the biggest threat to organic search engines, whose goal is to provide quality search results for keywords or phrases entered by their users. Google's PageRank algorithm update ("BigDaddy") in February 2006—the final stage of Google's major update ("Jagger") that began in mid-summer 2005—specifically targeted spamdexing with great success. This update thus enabled Google to remove a large amount of mostly computer-generated duplicate content from its index.
Websites consisting mostly of affiliate links have previously held a negative reputation for underdelivering quality content. In 2005 there were active changes made by Google, where certain websites were labeled as "thin affiliates".Such websites were either removed from Google's index or were relocated within the results page (i.e., moved from the top-most results to a lower position). To avoid this categorization, affiliate marketer webmasters must create quality content on their websites that distinguishes their work from the work of spammers or banner farms, which only contain links leading to merchant sites.
Some commentators originally suggested that affiliate links work best in the context of the information contained within the website itself. For instance, if a website contains information pertaining to publishing a website, an affiliate link leading to a merchant's internet service provider (ISP) within that website's content would be appropriate. If a website contains information pertaining to sports, an affiliate link leading to a sporting goods website may work well within the context of the articles and information about sports. The goal in this case is to publish quality information within the website and provide context-oriented links to related merchant's websites.
However, more recent examples exist of "thin" affiliate sites that are using the affiliate marketing model to create value for Consumers by offering them a service. These thin content service Affiliate fall into three categories:
Price comparison
Cause related marketing
Time saving
Consumer countermeasures
The implementation of affiliate marketing on the internet relies heavily on various techniques built into the design of many web-pages and web-sites, and the use of calls to external domains to track user actions (click tracking, Ad Sense) and to serve up content (advertising) to the user. Most of this activity adds time[citation needed] and is generally a nuisance to the casual web-surfer and is seen as visual clutter.[citation needed] Various countermeasures have evolved over time to prevent or eliminate the appearance of advertising when a web-page is rendered. Third party programs (Ad Aware, SpyBot, pop-up blockers, etc.) and particularly, the use of a comprehensive HOSTS file can effectively eliminate the visual clutter and the extra time and bandwidth needed to render many web pages. The use of specific entries in the HOSTS file to block these well-known and persistent marketing and click-tracking domains can also aid in reducing a system's exposure to malware by preventing the content of infected advertising or tracking servers to reach a user's web-browser.

Adware

Although it differs from spyware, adware often uses the same methods and technologies. Merchants initially were uninformed about adware, what impact it had, and how it could damage their brands. Affiliate marketers became aware of the issue much more quickly, especially because they noticed that adware often overwrites tracking cookies, thus resulting in a decline of commissions. Affiliates not employing adware felt that it was stealing commission from them. Adware often has no valuable purpose and rarely provides any useful content to the user, who is typically unaware that such software is installed on his/her computer.
Affiliates discussed the issues in Internet forums and began to organize their efforts. They believed that the best way to address the problem was to discourage merchants from advertising via adware. Merchants that were either indifferent to or supportive of adware were exposed by affiliates, thus damaging those merchants' reputations and tarnishing their affiliate marketing efforts. Many affiliates either terminated the use of such merchants or switched to a competitor's affiliate program. Eventually, affiliate networks were also forced by merchants and affiliates to take a stand and ban certain adware publishers from their network. The result was Code of Conduct by Commission Junction/beFree and Performics,LinkShare's Anti-Predatory Advertising Addendum,and ShareASale's complete ban of software applications as a medium for affiliates to promote advertiser offers. Regardless of the progress made, adware continues to be an issue, as demonstrated by the class action lawsuit against ValueClick and its daughter company Commission Junction filed on April 20, 2007.

Trademark bidding

Affiliates were among the earliest adopters of pay per click advertising when the first pay-per-click search engines emerged during the end of the 1990s. Later in 2000 Google launched its pay per click service, Google AdWords, which is responsible for the widespread use and acceptance of pay per click as an advertising channel. An increasing number of merchants engaged in pay per click advertising, either directly or via a search marketing agency, and realized that this space was already well-occupied by their affiliates. Although this situation alone created advertising channel conflicts and debates between advertisers and affiliates, the largest issue concerned affiliates bidding on advertisers names, brands, and trademarks.[33] Several advertisers began to adjust their affiliate program terms to prohibit their affiliates from bidding on those type of keywords. Some advertisers, however, did and still do embrace this behavior, going so far as to allow, or even encourage, affiliates to bid on any term, including the advertiser's trademarks. And some affiliates abuse it by bidding on those terms by excluding the location of the advertiser alone in many Search engines.

Lack of self-regulation and collaboration

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Affiliate marketing is driven by entrepreneurs who are working at the edge of Internet marketing. Affiliates are often the first to take advantage of emerging trends and technologies. The "trial and error" approach is probably the best way to describe the operation methods for affiliate marketers. This risky approach is one of the reasons why most affiliates fail or give up before they become successful "super affiliates", capable of generating US$10,000 or more per month in commission. This "frontier" life combined with the attitude found in such communities is likely the main reason why the affiliate marketing industry is unable to self-regulate beyond individual contracts between advertisers and affiliates. Affiliate marketing has experienced numerous failed attempts to create an industry organization or association of some kind that could be the initiator of regulations, standards, and guidelines for the industry. Some examples of failed regulation efforts are the Affiliate Union and iAfma.
Online forums and industry trade shows are one of the only means for the different members from the industry—affiliates/publishers, merchants/advertisers, affiliate networks, third-party vendors, and service providers such as outsourced program managers—to congregate at one location. Online forums are free, enable small affiliates to have a larger say, and provide anonymity. Trade shows are often cost-prohibitive to small affiliates because of the high price for event passes. Larger affiliates may even be sponsored to attend by an advertiser they promote.

Because of the anonymity of online forums, the quantitative majority of industry members are unable to create any form of legally binding rule or regulation that must be followed throughout the industry. Online forums have had very few successes as representing the majority of the affiliate marketing industry. The most recent example of such a success was the halt of the "Commission Junction Link Management Initiative" (CJ LMI) in June/July 2006, when a single network tried to impose the use of a Javascript tracking code as a replacement for common HTML links on its affiliates.

Compensation Disclosure

Bloggers and other publishers may not be aware of disclosure guidelines set forth by the FTC. Guidelines affect celebrity endorsements, advertising language, and blogger compensation.
Lack of industry standards
Certification and training
Affiliate marketing currently lacks industry standards for training and certification. There are some training courses and seminars that result in certifications; however, the acceptance of such certifications is mostly due to the reputation of the individual or company issuing the certification. Affiliate marketing is not commonly taught in universities, and only a few college instructors work with Internet marketers to introduce the subject to students majoring in marketing.
Education occurs most often in "real life" by becoming involved and learning the details as time progresses. Although there are several books on the topic, some so-called "how-to" or "silver bullet" books instruct readers to manipulate holes in the Google algorithm, which can quickly become out of date,or suggest strategies no longer endorsed or permitted by advertisers.
Outsourced Program Management companies typically combine formal and informal training, providing much of their training through group collaboration and brainstorming. Such companies also try to send each marketing employee to the industry conference of their choice.
Other training resources used include online forums, weblogs, podcasts, video seminars, and specialty websites.

Code of conduct

A code of conduct was released by affiliate networks Commission Junction/beFree and Performics in December 2002 to guide practices and adherence to ethical standards for online advertising.
Marketing term
Members of the marketing industry are recommending that "affiliate marketing" be substituted with an alternative name.Affiliate marketing is often confused with either network marketing or multi-level marketing. Performance marketing is a common alternative, but other recommendations have been made as well.

Sales tax vulnerability

In April 2008 the State of New York inserted an item in the state budget asserting sales tax jurisdiction over Amazon.com sales to residents of New York, based on the existence of affiliate links from New York–based websites to Amazon.The state asserts that even one such affiliate constitutes Amazon having a business presence in the state, and is sufficient to allow New York to tax all Amazon sales to state residents. Amazon challenged the amendment and lost at the trial level in January, 2009. The case is currently making its way through the New York appeals courts.

Cookie stuffing

Cookie stuffing involves placing an affiliate tracking cookie on a website visitor's computer without their knowledge, which will then generate revenue for the person doing the cookie stuffing. This not only generates fraudulent affiliate sales, but also has the potential to overwrite other affiliates' cookies, essentially stealing their legitimately earned commissions.

Click to reveal

Many voucher code web sites use a click-to-reveal format, which requires the web site user to click to reveal the voucher code. The action of clicking places the cookie on the website visitor's computer. The IAB have stated that "Affiliates must not use a mechanism whereby users are encouraged to click to interact with content where it is unclear or confusing what the outcome will be."