How to Find the Right Affiliate Program
Posted on September 13, 2007
Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Making Money Online, Work at Home |
Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online when you do not have a physical product to sell. Online affiliate marketing is when someone advertises a product or service for a company’s product or service. In return the affiliate marketer receives commission for each sale their advertising brings in. Think about it, you don’t have to own a product, worry about shipping, or keep track of inventory. Yet, you get paid for each sale your advertising efforts produce.
How wonderful is that?
For example, what if you wanted to start an online business in web hosting. Imagine the start up costs involved with such a business. The cost of the equipment, staff, and advertising. Starting a web hosting company would be a very challenging thing to do for an individual on a limited budget. With affiliate marketing, you can make a pretty penny selling web hosting without owning a website, web company, or a single server. Instead of starting a company yourself, you can find an unlimited number of existing web hosting companies that offer affiliate programs. Some companies pay up to 100 dollars per sale! All you do is promote your special affiliate URL, or the web address that uniquely identifies that a lead or a sale came from you.
How can you promote an affiliate link without owning a website? The most common way affiliate marketers promote their links is by using Google Adwords. In the web hosting example, all you would have to do is start an eye catching Adwords campaign. Anytime a web surfer clicks on your Ad, it will go through your affiliate link to the company’s web page. If one hundred people click on your ad and one of them purchases web hosting, you pocket an easy $1oo dollar commission.
Many super affiliates make thousands just by promoting their affiliate URLs on Google Adwords or similar paid advertising campaign. Still, even more super affiliates turn a BIGGER profit by advertising their affiliate links on their websites, forums, or blogs. But how do they find the right affiliate programs to promote?
A lot of online retailers and service providers offer affiliate programs to help them grow, and why shouldn’t they? Imagine how well a company would do if they had hundreds of thousands of salesmen promoting their product. Companies can offer their own independent affiliate program or outsource the program to a third party whose sole purpose is to manage and track affiliate sales and payouts. Three of the most popular affiliate companies include Clickbank , Commission Junction , and Linkshare .
Clickbank deals primarily with info products and info services. Most commission rates per sale runs between 10% to 75%.
Commission Junction Represents major online businesses including GoDaddy.com, Weightwatchers.com, eBay.com, Bargain.com, and much more. Having an affiliate account with Commission Junction, also known as CJ, will allow you to sell mostly physical products, with exception to Web hosting and Domain companies.
LinkShare - Similar to CJ, most of Linkshare’s businesses deal with actual physical goods which have to be shipped to
the buyer.
One of the primary benefits of dealing with a third party affiliate company such as Clickbank, Commission Junction, and Linkshare is that your performance statistics are handled by an independent third party. You don’t have to worry about anybody ‘messing’ with sales numbers or commissions.
But which affiliate program is the best to promote? How do you know which product is a hot seller and which one is being “over promoted”? Click Ad Equalizer is cutting-edge, state-of-the-art software that can give you the advantage you need when choosing which affiliate programs to promote and profit from. Click Ad Equalizer will show you exactly which products affiliates are selling, which are the most popular, and which are the least popular for every related keyword for that product. You instantly know what’s working and what’s not. Click Ad Equalizer let’s you know exactly what products are hot and which products are selling for each related keyword. The keywords are displayed in an easy-to-read pie graph so you can quickly determine whose affiliate program to join, which affiliates to contact, or who is your competition.
In other words, for any keyword you look up, Click Ad Equalizer you can find the right affiliate program to promote for any niche product or service.
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