Environmental Factors Affecting International Business

Loes Knetsch ^©

As an affiliate marketer you work international, and you have your responsibility for everything you advertise online. How the product you are advertising is affecting the environment. Not only the shipments but also how it is produced. And although you work in a small segment of the market, you do need to investigate the products and companies thoroughly.

Here are some points to consider thinking about before starting an affiliate partnership:

Safe business environment

Where do you host your website and what kind of security is offered to you? How is the technical support arranged? And is a there a community support/forum available? Are you on your own, or is a versatile guidance available?

The education standard

Higher educational levels allow people to increase their income. And your increased income will prove to you the education is functional. What are your expectations of an online education?

The product

Your choice for a product can have a huge influence on the micro-environment. It is well worth it to think of where your passion lies. About which topic can you talk the whole day long, every day again, and again? And which product from which company do you like to promote on your website? As an individual, your micro business is affecting the environment factors as a drop in the ocean, but as a huge group of marketers, we can have an enormous effect on the environment.

The affiliate partner

You can apply to thousands of companies to become an affiliate of. Companies that do not comply with the environment and companies that take their full responsibility in the area of sustainable production. You can make a difference, you know?

The market

The market needs to be well informed about the possibilities. About what product to chose for. And which footprint it leaves on this planet for the next generations. The internet users are growing daily, and the market is huge!

It is our collective and individual responsibility … to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live. ~ Dalai Lama Click To Tweet

Three internal environmental factors

Financial capabilities of the company
Unpredictable environmental factors
Market forces

Financial capabilities of the company

How much profit does a company make? They do need profit, so, they can afford it to invest in sustainability.

Unpredictable environmental factors

These are mostly marketing issues. Wages are rising and product prices are falling, legislation that changes, new environmental goals. Imposed by governments

Market forces

The changes in demand or competition that increases

These internal factors can be the reason that a company you deal with is changing its policy. They can suddenly start a different course, perhaps because of a lack of money or due to heavy demands imposed by new laws. It remains our own responsibility whether we choose to continue, and agree to the changed policy, or to switch to another, more sustainable producing company

Where does your responsibility stops?

Does our own responsibility ever stop? Can we, by taking our responsibility as an individual, create the ideal world? Or is this a utopia? Can we put our own responsibility on someone else because our “little me” does not matter much? If you add up all the individuals, you can imagine, that it has a big impact on sustainability worldwide. My dad always said. When every individual throws away one piece of paper, it will cost the world a whole rain forest.

We live on planet A, we do not have a planet B, C or D!

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