There is certainly quite a significant difference between a successful Network Marketer and an Affiliate Marketer. A lot of folks confuse the two because of a small likeness in the manner both get paid for their efforts.

The major distinguishing feature of Network Marketing is that they generate monthly residual income by working together with a team of people to create a team effort to advertise and sell a company’s products. Their main goal is to develop a team they can assist to develop a bigger team to sell even more products and services.

Affiliate Marketing is comparable in that they are always trying to reach new customers but they will rely entirely on their individual efforts to find them and sell retail products to them. Affiliate Marketers do not attempt to construct a team. Affiliate Marketers also tend to work alone.

Both forms of marketing can find customers the same way; online and/or offline. It is what they do when they find a customer that is certainly totally different.

Online Affiliate Marketing is somewhat like high speed intelligent door to door sales. Discovering new customers is the main objective so that the Affiliate Marketer will earn retail or commissions on the individual sales. They generally have a wide range of individual customers but they never sell to a customer more than twice on average.

Network Marketers make an effort to build very long sustained associations with clients. They focus on the longer term and spend some time to build relationships.

We published an article that explains the different strategies and ways each of these two common kinds of direct sales earn money from their efforts in finding customers. You can read it on our blog. Is Network Marketing different from Affiliate Marketing?