Refer.ly: Providing opportunities for ordinary people to join affiliate marketing

Affiliate Marketing has been in the United States for many years, and since 1996, when Amazon released its affiliate program, affiliate marketing has been used by thousands of websites, not only providing Amazon with additional revenue for tens of thousands of sites, and has become the main network Soho survival mode.

According to foreign media reports, according to statistics, Internet affiliate marketing total transactions amounted to 3 billion U.S. dollars. Affiliate marketing is a way for large online stores, such as Amazon, to promote their products by publishing affiliate projects, that is, when other businesses or individuals make a profit by recommending the company's products to others to generate deals. The general public has long had no access to affiliate marketing, but the start-up refer.ly now allows ordinary people to make money in this way.

Users can create specific links through refer.ly to track whether their recommendations bring sales to the site. If your recommendation generates a transaction, a small commission can be obtained, depending on the percentage of the product from a few percent to 10%. If you get a commission of more than 10 dollars, you can donate it or share it with your friends.

Refer.ly founder Daniel Morrey (Danielle Morrill) said, "The entire internet has been through this affiliate marketing to promote products, but many people do not know this very well." Any web site that displays a "buy" button supports affiliate marketing projects. However, it is not easy to join but the registration process is rather cumbersome. ”

Daniel Morrey (Danielle Morrill) says Refer.ly is a platform for "everyone can join an affiliate program." At present, it is a basic product prototype. Only direct referrals earn commission. So if you share a link that finally generates a transaction, such as a friend's friend who eventually buys the product through your recommendation, you're the only one who gets a commission. And refer.ly will not charge any fees and commissions.

About founder Daniel Morrey (Danielle Morrill), there have been many industry experience, has created many product prototypes. She hasn't been to college, and she doesn't think it's necessary. What makes her so irksome is her determination to become an entrepreneur. Previously, she had worked for a geographically shared application whrrl, which failed to withstand strong competition from Foursquare and was eventually bought by Groupon.

After that, she joined the Twilio as a non-founder, allowing developers to integrate VoIP, SMS and regular phone numbers into other applications. At present, Twilio has more than 30,000 programmer users and has completed multiple rounds of financing, with cumulative funding exceeding $33 million, with investors including union Square Ventures and Bessemer Venture.

Daniel Morrey (Danielle Morrill), a marketing person, began self-study programming. "I've been working with marketers and technical product managers for years, and I have to learn to write code myself," she said. ”

With the support of Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, Lawson, she began to follow her career dreams resolutely. She Kevin Murrill her husband, Kevin Morrill, into the company, as well as another co-founder Al abut, an engineer and a marketing promoter. Jeff Lawson, Jeff Lawson, and Dave McClure of startups became the company's angel investors.

But Refer.ly has to let us think about the question of how a few dollars ' worth of profits can make the most of a user's appeal. Do we recommend a good product to a friend, just to make money, or to share something good with a friend?

Daniel Morrey Danielle Morrill said she didn't expect refer.ly users to make a living, but wanted to see how the market reacted by publishing the product.

When an entrepreneur has an idea, you must be steadfast in its practice. After a few years of apprenticeship at Twilio, Daniel Morrey (Danielle Morrill) finally launched his own product refer.ly. This concept of refer.ly has now been approved to enter the next training course in Y Combinator.