How to go about affiliate marketing? Books, tutorials - start

Where 2 start

[AjiNIMC]

I have handled some affiliates and also developed affiliate programs for single website and as a service. I understand the use of affiliate marketing using internal application where you can track visitors and award the referrer based on actions taken by the referral.

I want to know what can you do when you don't have an internal application to track the visitors.

(Am I clear with my doubt?)

Thanks,
Aji

[eljefe3]

Yeah not clear what you want to do. You have a few options. Install a tracking script, pay on a per click basis (sketchy) or study your logs very closely :).

[AjiNIMC]

I want to run an affiliate marketing without developing one inhouse script.

Also I want to know various options under affiliate marketing banner.

[skibum]

There are some on HotScripts, however never used any of them. Aside from the software is all the tax paperwork which is one big load an affiliate network can take off your hands.

[Dinkar]

I guess, you want to know about third party tracking affiliate programs like cj shareasale. Is it so?