Comments on: How to use affiliate marketing programs without coming across as slimy

By: mcpokafinda

mcpokafinda — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:22:57 +0000

Just thought Id introduce myself,

Names davey. I like old school rts games,jogging, and this forum! =]

By: Affiliate Networks

Affiliate Networks — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:59:08 +0000

Affiliate Networks

Affiliate networks such as Tradedoubler The affiliate network ta

By: Pamela Slim

Pamela Slim — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:44:57 +0000

Thanks for the insight folks!

Paula: I don’t know much about other shopping cart affiliate programs. I have heard so many good things about 1shoppingcart.com by very successful web entrepreneurs that they were the only one I referred to. If the cost is not too prohibitive, I would rather set up once with the provider that I know is going to grow with my business than have to switch mid-stream and confuse existing affiliates. I know I will be committed to lots of marketing once I get my programs and products in place, so I am willing to eat a few months of expense to make it work.

You are right about most affiliate programs that you do need to reach a lot of people to make it worthwhile. It is why I personally like to choose a few people that are doing good work and who compliment what I am doing. You do have to actively market in order to get a good profit.

I may be strange, but I get excited with little $20 commissions. That is a week of lattes that I don’t have to pay for, and I think that is great!

Good luck with your program.

By: Paula Gregorowicz

Paula Gregorowicz — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:44:11 +0000

Great article. I am just getting started with affiliate related stuff. If you don’t have enough ongoing biz for your own products to justify the shopping cart w/ bells and whistles (ala affiliate tracking), what others do you recommend? I notice ClickBank is mentioned in one of the comments. Which is the best bang for the buck (time and money included)?

My other experience with affiliates so far is that it seems that you need to reach a lot of people in order to make it worthwhile (as in you pass through enough business for the affiliate to actually send you a check). What has been your experience? And, maybe this is just because my full web presence is just getting rolling.

By: Bryan Fleming

Bryan Fleming — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:09:28 +0000

I’d also suggest http://www.clickbank.com

Don’t stick to just one program, think them as a dealerships or outlets for your products. You want to be in as many of them as possible. Each one has it’s own niche of users that only want to use their system. ClickBank for example has a few power-affiliates that will only use clickbank.

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:22:34 +0000

I hadn’t really thought about affiliate programs until we were actually approached by someone interested in doing it.

We coded something fairly straightforward ourselves, to start, and we’re looking forward to dipping our toe into the idea.

It does make sense for a site such as ours which has fairly low traffic right now, but an idea that could fit very well with certain websites offering satire/humor/comedy content.

So we’ll see how it goes with the first partner and go from there!

It is an area of online marketing that I don’t know much about, so I appreciate the notes and will be doing more research soon…