Ok guys here is the ultimate question -- we have discussed affiliate programs a lot. But here is my question aside from cj.com what are other affiliate management companies that bring you real signups....on average how many signups do you receive from your affiliate programs....

I already know about shareasale.com and fineclicks.com butI have heard that they dont really bring you much traffic....

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Not sure, but what about Linkshare.com or Reporting.net ?

Originally posted by dialuphost
Ok guys here is the ultimate question -- we have discussed affiliate programs a lot. But here is my question aside from cj.com what are other affiliate management companies that bring you real signups....on average how many signups do you receive from your affiliate programs....

I already know about shareasale.com and fineclicks.com butI have heard that they dont really bring you much traffic....

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Our affiliates account for about 1/3rd of our sales. Our goal is to have our affiliates produce 90+% of our sales.

We run our own custom built affiliate software which keeps our costs very low. If you go with a 3rd party provider, sure you have access to more affiliates, but your expenses go up. Plus, it can be difficult to add or change features of your program since you won't have control of it. (For instance, you want to add a new statistics report.)

Hope that helps,

Brian

BTW - If you want to look at our program for pointers feel free: http://www.assortedinternet.com/hosting/affiliates/

Thanks bteeter, what program did u use on ur site, looks great

anyone else use something different that works?

Originally posted by dialuphost
Thanks bteeter, what program did u use on ur site, looks great

anyone else use something different that works?

Our affiliate program was something I created myself. I wrote all the code that makes it work, as well as the database structure, etc. (Its part of our management and automation suite.)

As I said before, I wanted the ability to add and manage things easily within the program. I also wanted the ability to closely tie the affiliate program to our backend systems. So, to me, the most logical decision was to write my own. :-)

Take care,

Brian

Originally posted by bteeter


Our affiliates account for about 1/3rd of our sales. Our goal is to have our affiliates produce 90+% of our sales.

We run our own custom built affiliate software which keeps our costs very low. If you go with a 3rd party provider, sure you have access to more affiliates, but your expenses go up. Plus, it can be difficult to add or change features of your program since you won't have control of it. (For instance, you want to add a new statistics report.)

Hope that helps,

Brian

BTW - If you want to look at our program for pointers feel free: http://www.assortedinternet.com/hosting/affiliates/

Brian,

Tell me though, how do you go about to attract, acquire, and retain your affiliates?

Regards,


Anthony Obioha
Co-Founder
SuppleHost
http://www.supplehost.com

:bawling:

we are with cj and should have spent the money on cheap beer

since going with cj we have had excessive fraud and when we k\terminate the frauders they dos attack oour servers.

keep it local, keep it internal

and do even look at cj

we are out 4500 and cant wait till the torture ends

el_g

Brain

May I ask you how do you pay to your affiliates?
that's the biggest problem that I'm facing to create an affiliate program.

Originally posted by Jedito
Brain

May I ask you how do you pay to your affiliates?
that's the biggest problem that I'm facing to create an affiliate program.

Brain? I know I'm a smart guy, but come on, that's pushing it don't you think. :-)

Paying affiliates is actually pretty simple. Plain old paper check sent in the mail. I use Microsoft Money for our corporate account. And it remembers addresses for payments, so once someone is in the system its trivial to send them the check next month. Just enter them in, tell Money to print, sign and mail.

It also helps that we format the checks so that we can put them in the two window envelopes. Our return address and the affiliates address appear in the windows, so we don't have to print envelopes too.

We also pay be Paypal if requested. But, as yet, no one has requested it.

Brian,

Tell me though, how do you go about to attract, acquire, and retain your affiliates?

We did an initial campaign last year that attracted almost all of the affiliates we have now. Beyond that, we have a link to our program on our hostings page navigation. So, in a sense, we've done very little to attract our affiliates.

But, we are working on a major campaign to be launched soon to attract even more affiliates. I won't reveal details yet, but keep an eye out here, as we'll no doubt announce it in the appropriate forum. :-)

Take care,

Brian