People who work on the Internet often come across such a concept as a referral. It may seem unfamiliar to newcomers to online earnings, but it's actually very simple.
Referral and referrer
A referral is a person involved in the program by another project participant. For example, a person receives an invitation from another to take part in something, for which the inviting party receives a certain percentage of the referral's future earnings. The person who invites a referral is called a referrer.
The attraction technique is simple. Going to any site, the user can see the referrer link, which invites to become his referral. Often some reward can be promised for this. For example, by agreeing to become someone else's referral, a person can gain access to certain functions of the site, which are closed to an ordinary user.
The referral system is widely used in network marketing and internet business. The benefit to the inviting party is not limited only to receiving part of the profit from the income. If the user also decides to invite a referral, then part of his earnings, but already less, will be credited not only to him, but also "higher" - to the one who invited this person. Everything follows a chain from bottom to top.
Referrals are categorized as direct and indirect. A direct referral is a person registered with a direct referrer link. Indirect - one who checks in from secondary links.
Ways to attract a referral
The easiest and most common way to attract referrals is to place referral links on various sites, forums, social networks. This method does not require any financial costs and is very effective.
There is also another way. For example, when visiting a site, a person is offered to download a variety of content, but on condition that this user goes to another site and registers on it.
The same principles apply in network marketing. There are many manufacturers of various products that do not distribute their goods in retail chains, but offer them for sale with the help of other people. These people, in addition to direct sales, can also offer participation in this business. In this case, the person who agreed to this offer becomes a referral. In the process of work, he will also be able to invite other referrals, being a referrer for them.
But the referral system is aimed not only at making money by attracting referrals. For example, on the Internet, this system is used to attract people to groups. And when creating new sites, new users are often attracted to increase the ranking of these sites.