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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Affiliate Progams; The Basics You Need To Know Before Joining One


I know you must have been hearing of affiliate marketing, it’s all about reselling other peoples product. Just go over to www.AssociateProgram.com and then search for affiliate programs that suit your niche market or your interest and then start work. It is usually a free registration but some do offer a paid affiliate programs. What will happen is that you will sell other peoples be paid a certain commission as a percentage of the selling price. Some programs give up to 50% commission but you need to be careful when choosing an affiliate program, to prevent unnecessary competition between you and your merchant. I will touch them in summary;
1. SOME MERCHANTS DO COMPETE AGGRESSIVELY WITH THEIR AFFILIATES:- you need to join an affiliate whose merchants is not promoting his or her products so much as to steal your commission because any sales referred directly by the merchant is a sale lost by the affiliate. You can tell if a merchant is too competitive by simply using search engine like Google or yahoo to search on the keyword of your market and see if your merchants have a lot of pay per click ads or other promotional items showing up.
2. MAKE SURE THAT YOUR MERCHANT IS USING ONLY ONE PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM:- are you surprised! Yeah, sometimes do provide more than one payment option to their customers. This could be a very bad thing for their affiliates while it looks absolutely fine for them. Let’s take an example. If your affiliate’s link is through clickbank and them you refer someone to buy your affiliates product through your clickbank link while he decides to buy using another payment option may pay pal then you’ve just lost the commission.
Make sure you consider this two things before joining any affiliate program.GOOD LUCK

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