Glossary

Use our glossary to get more familiar with industry terms in both the lead generation and affiliate marketing sectors.

Advertising Agency
An entity that handles a company's advertising needs, relieving it of the work of brand recognition and often participating in affiliate marketing on the client's behalf.
Affiliate Marketing
A model where a business or individual drives traffic to a company and is paid for each sale or lead generated by their marketing efforts.
Affiliate Tracking
Monitoring each affiliate's performance through unique landing pages, web forms, or links, so there is no guesswork about which affiliates are worth keeping.
Call Centers
Operations that make and receive calls to work leads, routing inbound calls to representatives and managing the resulting leads in a web-based CRM.
Call Routing
Directing inbound calls to your representatives, call centers, or lead buyers using filters, schedules, and lead criteria.
Call Tracking
Assigning distinct phone numbers to different ads or listings so you know which ones convert, with the option to record calls for additional metrics.
Co-Registration
Letting more than one company benefit from a collected lead by capturing the consumer's interest in additional offers on the same form.
Contextual Advertising
Advertising that is automatically matched to the content of the page a consumer is viewing, so ads appear alongside relevant material.
CPA Offers
Cost Per Action offers, where the advertiser pays only when a desired action occurs, such as a web form submission, a double opt-in, or a sale.
CPC Offers
Cost (or Pay) Per Click offers, an advertising model where the advertiser pays for each click on an ad that brings a prospect to their website.
CPL Offers
Cost Per Lead offers, where an advertiser pays an affiliate for each lead generated by their offer rather than paying for traffic.
Customer Relationship Management
Software for managing customers and leads, with fields, forms, and verticals customizable to the data that matters to your staff.
Data Leads
Leads generated, bought, or sold as data records and managed through web forms and a web-based admin portal.
Display Advertising
The use of banner ads, video ads, and other rich media ads to advertise online, chiefly through display networks such as Google's.
Email List Management
Maximizing the value of an email list through import and export, proper subscribe and unsubscribe options, bounce management, and suppression lists.
Email Service Provider
A company that provides personal or mass email services to other companies or individuals.
Host and Post
Delivering leads in real time by posting qualified leads directly into a client's CRM, custom API, or email inbox.
Lead Aggregation
Collecting leads from multiple lead generators and reselling them to a network of lead buyers.
Lead Brokers
Companies that buy and sell leads, tracking vendor leads and delivering them to client systems through methods like host and post, ping/post, and ping trees.
Lead Buyers
The companies that purchase leads, each receiving only the leads that match their verticals, filters, and preferred delivery method.
Lead Capture
Collecting leads through landing pages, web forms embedded on your own website, or dedicated phone numbers you drive traffic to.
Lead Commerce
The business of buying and selling leads as a commodity, spanning lead generation, verification, distribution, and billing.
Lead Distribution
Getting a captured or purchased lead into the buyer's hands in real time, delivered to your own CRM or straight to a client's system.
Lead Generation
Acquiring new customer interest online through channels such as email marketing, display ads, social marketing, SEO, SEM, PPC, and call centers, with the lead typically captured via a web form.
Lead Management
Managing your lead vendors and lead buyers from a centralized, web-based management portal.
Lead Nurturing
Keeping in contact with leads that are not yet ready to convert, typically through scheduled follow-up touches, until they are sales-ready.
Lead Routing
Automatically sending each lead to the right destination using easy-to-configure filters, schedules, and price points.
Lead Scoring
Ranking leads by their expected quality or likelihood to convert so that the best leads get priority handling.
Lead Selling
Selling your leads through avenues such as host and post, ping post or ping tree, email, and FTP.
Lead Tracking
Following a lead from its source through to the lead buyer, including with embedded tracking pixels, so you know which sources convert.
Lead Vendors
Suppliers who post leads into the system via import, web forms, or HTTP Post and can have lead buyers compete for their leads.
Lead Verification
Verifying lead data in real time, before you pay for or resell a lead, so fraudulent or low-quality leads are caught at the door.
Lead Verticals
Industry categories for leads, such as payday, education, or insurance, each carrying its own field definitions, lead buyers, and lead sellers.
Mobile Leads
Leads captured from mobile users through mobile-friendly web forms or text-to-lead phone numbers.
Ping Post
A distribution model where selected fields of a lead are first pinged to prospective buyers to determine interest before the full lead is posted.
Ping Tree
A cascading version of ping/post that offers each lead to the top price tier of buyers first, moving to the next tier only if every buyer passes.
Search Engine Marketing
Internet marketing focused on increasing a website's visibility in the search engines through SEO and paid advertising.
Search Engine Optimization
Optimizing a website on and off the page with the goal of increasing its natural, organic search rankings.
SMS Leads
Leads that provide an opt-in mobile phone number that can be used to send the lead SMS messages.
Social Media Marketing
Promoting a product or service and generating leads through social networks and the content shared on them.
Voice Leads
Leads generated as live phone calls by advertising dedicated local or toll-free numbers, then routed to your call center or lead buyers.

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