Anybody running affiliate programs per click or sale?

Outsourced to cj or controlled internal?

amount of signups/month?

scams to beware?




as always gracias

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neways i am trying to get an affiliate program too but am trying to find out what are good numbers.

I will be starting one soon. I plan to do everything in house and write the tracking/affiliate scripts myself.

I have used clickbank in the past, they were good but you'd have to process your payments through them as well and that wouldn't work well for monthly hosting.

Andrew

one of my questions is do i have to mail my affiliates a w2 form at the end of the year?

It would be a 1099 and I think it's only if they make more than $600/year. Don't quote me on that though I'm not a CPA

Andrew

I have signed up with CJ.com (commision Junction) but I have not gone live yet. Although the costs are prohibitive to som I find that they offer the best services etc. While we can get good robust affiliate software at about $200 the quality of your affiliates makes a big difference. All affilaites that CJ directs to your program are usually high quality affiliates.

Originally posted by successful
All affilaites that CJ directs to your program are usually high quality affiliates.

LOL - Is that on the CJ.com website somewhere? Anyone can sign up for an CJ account as an affiliate. That person could run a site getting 100,000 hits a month, or just put up a site with frontpage and geocities that only mom and dad know about. :) I don't see how CJ has anything to do with who signs up for your program.

Well i want to know is what are good numbers. what makes a good affiliate program.

The people from CJ.com said that it's considered a good program the program with 1500-2000 affiliates.

However I must say that i had the worst experience EVER with them as i can recall the last 6-7 years i work with Internet

I sent them 7 emails and 1 fax and when I tried to call the lady there she said that she didn't find any of my emails or the fax even I have received an email confirmation that she accepted and read the email and of course that the fax transmitted ok.
Without giving me an excuse for this she said 'ok… now do you want something from us ?'

I carbon copy the emails I sent several times to other departments also but they didn't care a bit for a reply for more than 45 days.

Maybe they work only for big guys and not all the other people they want to give them their money.

I find companies they lie so easy a threat for internet community and only a big slap can weak them up a little.


WebSeeker

I am just about finished scripting an affiliate program for my company. What it does is allows someone to sign up as an affiliate on my website, and gives them a URL and when someone purchase services through that URL my order form saves the affiliate ID in a MySQL database. The affiliates can than log in and see how many refferal sales they have had. I am planning on offering a free month of hosting for every 2 refferals.

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If you aren't offering it free, then it shouldn't be mentioned in the main forums.
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We have just started an affiliate program, so it's too early to tell whether it will bring in any clients. Paying 10 to 20 bucks per signup FYI.

Writing a little PHP script to track affiliates is really easy -- I can hardly write my own name in PHP, and yet I managed to write a reliable affiliate tracking script in less than an hour, without looking up other scripts. If anyone here wants to know how I did it, I would be happy to share.

I took a look at cj for web hosting. I see a lot of new ones in the last too weeks, and not the many have stayed there long I do not belive. Take a took, just seems like some are not getting very much, there are two though really making money, hostrocket is one of them

Just to get something straight: do CJ.com actually promote your afiliate program for you? In other words, do they do more than what a self-written script would do?

I read on cj.com and they require a hugh setup fee.

Run within 2 weeks.
Don't you lose the setup fee?

I posted this in another thread, but CJ is horrible. They do not expand your affiliate program or manage it.

Their affiliates are NOT very high quality. Although it is better now that they don't offer perclick programs.

You may get thousands of affiliates through them, but the number that actually send you traffic is pretty small. Most webmasters on their affiliate program don't even have a site or one that gets 1 visitor a year.

We've only gotten traffic from 3 affiliates through them. This is after a year, with thousands and thousands of affiliates. Admitedly those three affiliates were worthy. One of them was also a merchant (dotster, inc).

They charge YOU minimum monthly fees if your affiliate program is not making THEM enough money. Yet they do nothing that would make the affiliate program earn more money.

The only help they offer are some help files that are supposed to help you market your affiliate program better. Isn't that what you're paying them for?

They're affiliate tracking system does not work correctly. It has never worked like it says in the pdf documents that they give you to program your end of the cookie tracking.

Their database is often down, and when it is up, it isn't very good at math. It looses track of data.

IMHO

www.fineclicks.com should be recommended any day over CJ.

Ouch, CJ sound pretty bad. I think I'll stick with the affiliate tracking script I wrote myself. :)

Originally posted by avara
Ouch, CJ sound pretty bad. I think I'll stick with the affiliate tracking script I wrote myself. :)


Wouldn't it be better to use a third party? :cool:

There is another company that has a much more affordable affilate system at http://www.goflip.com

They do everything that cj.com does and are adding much more features than them.