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I am advising a StartUp on their business model and wanted some insight into Affiliate Marketing to see if what they are planning is feasible. Currently I am aware that typically there is a merchant with a shopping cart - let's say for example this is Amazon. Amazon includes a pixel in their shopping cart and sets up an affiliate system, where people can sign up to get a commission of any lead they pass onto Amazon that results in a sale. Now, what is different is that this StartUp is looking to convince MULTIPLE merchants to include pixels in their shopping carts, and then they will operate, effectively, as their sole affiliate, with the possibility of recruiting more affiliates underneath them at a later stage. So as an example, if "Widget StartUp" wants to promote widgets, I believe it would need to approach Widget Shop A, B, C and D and get them to incorporate tracking pixels in their carts, and it would aim to promote all these widgets, without any of them having an existing affiliate program. It would need to convince them to include tracking pixels in their shopping carts and then promote them to try get a cut of the final sale. Later, but not necessarily strictly part of the initial market validation process, it plans to possibly have widget bloggers, specialists, reviewers etc. also promoting some of their widget merchants to get a cut of their cut. Does anyone have any experience attempting this strategy? If so: a) What is the industry terminology for the 'Widget StartUp'? If its not a merchant, and not one of thousands of affiliates is it a 'Super Affiliate' or is it an Agency, or something else? b) What software did you use out of the existing ones or is capable of such a strategy e.g. HasOffers, Post Affiliate Pro etc.? or did you create something yourself? c) And how difficult was it to convince merchants to start an affiliate program? Was there considerable friction in this approach? Any advice or experience appreciated. Thanks in advance.

As a business owner, I would want to know that you could guarantee security and I would never do an exclusive deal especially with a startup.
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