Top Affiliate Networks to Join
As online
businesses increase, there are heaps of affiliate programs to choose from.
Below are the top ones i have gathered that are easy to get into. When it comes
to commissions, brands and other favorable conditions these programs are
unbeatable.
You get paid
via PayPal, Check or Payoneer (straight into your bank account). Become an
affiliate and start making money today!
Amazon
Amazon is
the largest affiliate network in the world. Their affiliate program is called
Amazon associate program.
One good
thing about Amazon is that it is a trusted brand – everyone knows Amazon. If
someone were going to Purchase online, Amazon would have to be one of the
safest options. So people are comfortable when you refer them to Amazon.
Amazon
accept anyone including Nigerians so you have no problem getting accepted. The
commissions may seem small starting at 4% and for most products and can go as
high as 8% depending upon how many products you see sold.
Commissions
on higher value products can really boost your commission. if you promote a
high value product (like a camera or TV) the commission can be decent.
Another
great thing about Amazon is that when your lead buys anything you get
commissions for it. Even if he buys something besides what you sent him to buy.
You also get commissions for all items he buys.
Many people
load up their cart with numerous items so you get commission for all items. The
only downside to Amazon is the cookie length which is just 24 hours.
Clikbank
Clickbank is
still probably the largest digital marketplace (JVZoo is catching up) and its
the network most people hear a lot about when talking about affiliate
marketing. One good thing about this network is that, its very easy to get
into. You don’t need that much information when you sign up unlike most other
affiliate networks.
Disadvantage
is that they don’t have a place for people living in Nigeria. Nigeria is not
even on the list. But there is always a way around this. You can just sign up
with another country address and get a US account number to get your payments.
Shareasale
Shareasale
is another good network to join. The registration process is fast and easy.
After clicking on the sign-up button, you will be directed to a page where you
create a username and password and choose your location.
On
Shareasale you are required to give the website that they will be using to
market the products and give a custom email address that corresponds to your
website URL.
With
shareasale, you decide which merchants to promote and how to promote them, and
when commissions are generated, you can see your statistics in real-time. All
payments are consolidated from the programs you participate in, and are paid
with one check or direct deposit.
Commission
Junction
Commission
Junction or CJ for short is one of the largest affiliate networks. If your blog
is accepted into the Commission Junction affiliate advertising network, it’s a
great program to join. They screen websites so your website better be good.
You have to
fill out an application, and if you’re accepted, then you get into the network.
But unlike Clickbank or Amazon, you then have to apply to each advertiser’s
program individually. That means, even if you get approved to join the network,
you might not be able to get accepted into the individual affiliate programs
whose ads you want to display on your blog.
The
advertisers choose who they want and it all comes down to your website. If your
website is good, they will accept you.
JVZoo
I love JVZoo. I love
this network because of my niche. Since I promote mostly software and make
money programs nowadays, I use mostly affiliate networks like Clickbank and
Jvzoo.
On Clickbank, I promote
internet marketing eBooks while on Jvzoo, I promote internet marketing tools,
plugins, themes etc. Jvzoo is good when it comes to these offers.
Just like Commission
Junction, you also have to apply for each merchants products. Most top product
owners don’t accept newbies but some will. They reason that newbies will decrease
their conversion rate.
On Jvzoo, every time you
send a referral to one of their vendors, you are automatically cookied for any
other products that vendor might list with them – current or future. For
instance, a buyer purchases a product through your affiliate link, if the same
buyer buys something else at a later date from the same vendor, you get
commissions for it.
Even though you haven’t
directly referred the buyer to that specific product, you’ll still get paid
commission on that sale. That is a good thing and its why i love this network.
Downside is that, all
payments are made via PayPal. I mean foreign PayPal that accept funds. ,Your
Nigerian PayPal will not work in this case. Jvzoo is yet to embrace Payoneer so
you can’t get your funds if you don’t have a foreign PayPal account.
Although its possible to
contact your affiliate manager and ask to get your funds via bank transfer.
Then you can get your money via Payoneer. I have not tried this though so I am
not sure. I have a functional PayPal account so can’t tell.
They adopt a direct
PayPal payment which means you are paid directly by PayPal and you get your
money instantly. You don’t have to wait for payment threshold or at the end of
the month. You get paid every dollar as they come.
But this method of
payment has its downside and that’s handling refunds. When a buyers requests
for refunds, the money is removed from your PayPal account. This network along
with Payspree are the places where you have to deal with refunds. I get this
sometimes and at first i hated it. But i get my money everyday into my PayPal
account and its a good thing.
There are many others
you can join but these are the top ones.
Modern Affiliate Marketing Tactics
Yeah you now know how
affiliate marketing works, the process and the general ways of making money
with this model. But there is a new way of actually making money with affiliate
marketing.
It involves some
tricks and tactics but its purely legal and its the way to go now if you want
to make big commissions at the end of the month.
While quality
content and user engagement is the best form of marketing online, you
still have to manipulate things to get more and more people to visit your page
and make you commissions.
There are plugins and
software like jacking software, cloning software, optin plugins, countdown
timers, tube jacking tools, social marketing tools, action bars etc. that really
helps with getting more eyes to see your offers, increase clicks and sales.
Jacking tools – allow you to take over a landing page
that you like and take advantage of its visitors. Its a good tool for getting a
chunk of traffic that goes to a popular website.
Cloning tools – allows you clone a landing page that
you like. These tools makes you build any landing page without actually paying
for it. You can clone any good landing page and therefore make good commissions
with that page.
Countdown timers – allows affiliates to make visitors
quickly make up their mind and buy stuffs you want them to buy. This tool is
very effective and its one of the reason my commissions keep climbing each day.
Optin, web form
pop-ups – are good tools
for quickly building email lists. Email marketing is the best way to advertise
to people who trust and follow you and so allows you to make commissions from
them over and over again.
Tube ad tools – allow you make huge commissions from
videos. Videos are good ways to do reviews and adding an affiliate links
directly on videos greatly improves the chances of viewers clicking on your
affiliate links. If you go to YouTube now, you will see how Google ads ads on
videos, that’s exactly what this tool does.
These days people love
to watch videos and creating video reviews is a nice way to increase
conversions. No matter your niche and product you are promoting, you can make
videos for them. All you need to do is create videos with screen cast software
and get someone to do the voice over on Fiverr for $5.
There are many other
tools and they are the reason why I don’t do traditional affiliate marketing
promotions like I used to. I mean I don’t really have time doing SEO. There is
too much work involved.
I still get involved
in adding great content to my sites and traffic from forums but the tools help
me get traffic more easily and also improves clicks and conversions.
How to Improve Affiliate Commissions
You can increase your
affiliate commissions if you take note of the points below.
Promote Products You
Know a Lot About
Make sure you are
promoting products you know a lot about. That way you can write a good review
based on the benefits of the product. People want to buy stuffs because of how
it benefits them. The more you know about a product, the better you will be
able to promote it.
Research
Even if you have not
used a product before, it will do you a lot of good to do further research
about the product. Apart from what you have on the merchants sales letter, you
also need to look for the experience of other users of the products. Read other
review sites.
Write a Good Review
This is the result of
the two points above. In other to write a good review about a product, you need
to know enough and do more research about the product. You need to be a sales
man yourself.
Write a good review of
the product or service and encourage your readers to click on your link to see
what is on the other side and how it will benefit them.
Don’t Sell But
Recommend a Product
The best approach to
making affiliate commissions is to recommend products. Don’t just ask them to
buy but tell them how the product will help them and how you think it they are
better off buying it.
People don’t like when
you tell them to bring out their money. They want you to tell them about a
product that will solve their problems and all they need is recommendation.
Get the Right
Marketing Tools
Like I said above,
using the right tools will help you make bigger commissions. Most of these
tools are expensive but you make bigger bucks compared to when you don’t have
them. Just one of these tools can double your affiliate commissions.
How to Get Paid
Once you help make
sales, its now time to get paid. Most of the affiliate networks pay with
PayPal, Check or Bank transfer.
If you have a foreign
PayPal account that receives payment, you can add it to account and once you
reach your payment threshold, your accrued amount will be sent to your PayPal
account when due.
If you don’t have a
PayPal account, then the bank transfer option is available. To use bank
transfer option, you can sign up with Payoneer for free and you will be given a
US account with a MasterCard.
Just add your US
account to your account and you get paid to that account once you reach your
payment threshold. You can then withdraw your money from your account with your
Payoneer MasterCard.
Most affiliate
networks have a payment threshold of $100. But you can set your payment
threshold to what ever you like above $100.
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