Amazon introduces affiliate marketing programme in India;

            Amazon.in, the marketplace launched in India by Amazon Seller Services Pvt Ltd, part of the world’s largest e-commerce firm Amazon.com, has introduced its affiliate marketing programme called Amazon Associates Program in India. The new programme is essentially a marketing tool that will enable online publishers (of all sizes) monetise their content by advertising contextually relevant products and referring visitors to the Amazon.in site.

The company is providing a cost-per-action advertising model where all associates, ranging from large and small businesses to bloggers, authors and others, can create links to contextually relevant products in the Amazon.in catalogue. An associate earns a percentage-based referral fee when a customer clicks the product link (created by that associate) and makes a purchase on Amazon.in. Note that the commission extends to all products the visitor buys on the site and not just the product which was advertised by the associate.

For creating an ad, publishers can select from over 17 million books, tens of thousands of DVDs and audio CDs, a range of products in the consumer electronics segment, as well as the entire Kindle range of devices. One can become an associate for free and as part of an introductory offer, associates will get commissions ranging from 5 per cent (for the consumer electronics segment) to 10 per cent (for all other categories).

In comparison, other leading e-commerce players like Jabong are offering 8 per cent in commission to their affiliates while some offer a fixed amount for each sale. Interestingly, Flipkart has recently hiked its affiliate fee from 6 per cent to 10 per cent for most of its categories (probably because Amazon is offering that much). The only categories for which the company is offering less than 10 per cent commission are mobiles & tablets, laptops & accessories and cameras. For these, affiliates get 5 per cent commission (again, similar to Amazon)

To View the Affiliate Programme go to this link...........

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MLM companies plans agitation against “police harassment”

Affirming police harassment, MLM companies like Amway on Tuesday said they are planning country- broad agitations if the Government fails to suppress their mistreatment within 45 days.

The Forum for Direct Selling Companies & Consumers of India (FDCI) said planning agitations is the “only choice left for over 7 crore Indian distributors under given desperate situations”.

The agitations will be arranged along with Confederation of Direct Selling Distributors Association of India (CDSDAI) – a trade union  and an offshoot of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), FDCI said in a statement.

It might be remembered that USA-based direct selling office Amway’s India MD & CEO William S Pinckney and two supervisors were arrested by Kerala Police in May. Later on, there were released on bail.

As there is no proper regulation in place specific to this industry, authorities in numerous states have been attempting to put this business model into the purview of the Prize Chits & Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978 (PCMC Act) and register criminal cases against business and its suppliers, FDCI affirmed.

“The vagueness in this sector is being exploited by the police officers to amass cash from suppliers and companies making use of underhanded means,” it alleged.

“More than 7 crore people in India who are making a living through multi-level marketing (MLM) are going through a never ever before threat and unpredictability as the authorities in numerous states have actually begun catching these business and their distributors into criminal cases stating that all MLM business models are unlawful as per PCMC Act,” P A Joseph, General Secretary of FDCI and CDSDAI, stated.

According to FDCI statement, genuine multi-level Marketing companies use the MLM model to offer or disperse their items. In authentic MLM companies independent suppliers buy products at wholesale rates and offer them at market price and this way they make an earnings, it included.

“In illegal pyramid schemes there are no genuine products and people sign up with the model to make fast money by sponsoring more people. Police authorities are not attempting to separate in between the genuine business models and unlawful pyramid schemes and this has affected operations of many excellent business,” it said.

“Multinational companies which have actually invested millions of United States dollars in India are planning to end up their businesses because of such harassments. Unfortunately all this has finally afflicted crores of individuals in India who rely on this sector for their livelihood.”