ABSTRACT

This project is dealing with affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts. It is an application of crowd sourcing. The Affiliate Marketing industry has four core players at its heart: the Merchant, the Network, the Publisher and the Consumer. This new age online marketing practice helps different business enterprises to collaborate with each other for a common goal and that is mutual profit. This helps the consumer by providing more ways for people to discover products and services that are relevant to their needs and wants. Affiliate marketing is a robust and an all-inclusive web based marketing that makes use of the web resources of publishers or website owners. The Internet surfer who visits the affiliate's website is exposed to the content and publicity material of the merchant and may respond by clicking on the link, purchasing an item or do some other action. The merchants pay the affiliate an amount based on the actions performed by the users on their matter, which is fixed beforehand. Payment is based on performance thus the merchants spend only when they get desired results.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER CONTENTS PAGE NO

1 SYNOPSIS 1

2 COMPANY PROFILE 3

3 INTRODUCTION 7

3.1 ABOUT THE PROJECT 8

4 SYSTEM STUDY 12

4.1 EXISTING SYSTEM 13

4.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM 13

4.3 MODULE DESCRIPTION 14

5 FEASIBILITY STUDY 16

5.2 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY 18

5.3 FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY 19

5.1 OPERATION FEASIBILITY 20

6 SYSTEM ANALYSIS 21

6.1 HARDWARE SPECIFICATION 22

6.2 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION 22

6.3 PLATFORM SPECIFICATION 23

6.3.1 .NET FRAMEWORK 2005 23

6.3.2 SQL SERVER 2005 26

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7 SYSTEM DESIGN 29

7 .1 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM 30

7.2 UML DIAGRAM 33

7.3 TABLES 39

8 SYSTEM TESTING 41

9 SCREEN SHOTS 48

10 SAMPLE CODING 55

11 CONCLUSION 62

11.1 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT 63

12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 64

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1. SYNOPSIS

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1. SYNOPSIS

This project entitled “ADEPT SKYLINE QUERY EXEMPTION ON AFFILIATE PROMOTION” is dealing with affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts. It is an application of crowdsourcing. The Affiliate Marketing industry has four core players at its heart: the Merchant, the Network, the Publisher and the Consumer.

This new age online marketing practice helps different business enterprises to collaborate with