I have been using Clickbank for affiliate marketing products for the past 4 months and I just made the payout last week since you have to have 5 different transactions to get your first payout. I only do affiliate marketing part-time on 3 blogs and 1 niche website, but I would love to eventually do it as a full-time job and make more than $75 a month to do so. For people who have experience with different affiliate marketing networks, which one do you see the most sales and income from?

Like you, I used Clickbank for the first 5 months I did affiliate marketing and made about $200 a month. I just did not find many of the products that great to try to sell and most did not convert very well. So, I did some research and found this guy named Matt Bacak who brought to my attention that Clickbank is not the only affiliate network out there. This Bacak guy is actually a millionaire and offers great advice if you want to check him out – www.mattbacak.com.

I joined a couple of different affiliate marketing networks such as Commission Junction, Share A Sale, and Clix Galore. I can’t really say which one is going to make you the most money since I don’t know what kind of products that you want to promote, but here is what I do to get the most out of my affiliate marketing sites.

I check the networks to see what kind of products they have based on the keywords I have chosen for my site. Then, I compare them to see which product or service looks the best and which one has the history of doing the best. Then, I pick that product and go with it for at least 1-2 months and then re-evaluate it to see if one of the other products may be better.

Sometimes I find that Commission Junction is the best and other times it may be Share A Sale that makes me the most money. It all depends on what type of product that you want to try to sell and what topic it is on. Do your research and don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Oh, and I have been doing affiliate marketing now for almost a year full-time after getting laid off and I have now reached the same amount of monthly income that I had at my engineering job, so you can make full-time AM your goal and success can be achieved.

if we want to sell other companies product, how to contact them? should we approach them in person?in what basis they pay commission? if a reader buy thru my website, how shall we take account ie how do we know that he buys from our site?

One of the best ways to control your affiliate marketing is by building your own website and build a stream of visitors through valuable content. There are a few great web hosts that can assist you in setting up an affiliate business around your interests.

You can find many affiliate products that fit around your interests through affiliate marketing channels.
I would suggest that you take a look at web hosts that assist, provide tools and help you find affiliate product options.
I would also suggest that you compare several options to find the right match for you. You can take a look at the host that I use as one of your comparisons. http://affiliatemarketing.sitesell.com/UnstoppableDreams.html

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I want reputable companies like Clickbank. I would especially want to market magazines of all sort. Also if you know of magazines I can promote directly from the publisher the better. I prefer payment via paypal. Where do I get such products or programs with them?

Have you considered having your own digital storefront. It is free to join and a low cost to upgrade and fully customize if you wish to later. Everything you need is in one place and the help and information is outstanding. I use this storefront as a supplement to my blog.

I am researching online affiliate marketing. Say I am looking to sell something online. Let’s also say I want to leverage affiliate marketing networks to advertise my product. As the merchant, is it common to have the ability to choose which type of advertising channel you are marketed to or is it more like a shotgun blast across the internet?

Or is it the other way around… do the affiliates choose what is eventually advertised by their site?

if you want to learn about affiliate marketing, check out this

http://affiliate-internet-marketing-for-dummies.info

Here, you’ll find the best guide to learn affiliate marketing.

Hope this help,

I have a website, creditcard processors (2checkout, ikobo, paypal, shareit) and software products.

I want to work with advertisers (I tried bidvertiser and know adwords), affiliates, resellers or marketers on a profit sharing basis. So basically I can sell them the licences (product keys) as they resell the product to customers or I can process payment and give them the finders fee. They need to promote (seo,ads,maillists,better web site?) and actually sell the products to obtain any money.

How to accomplish this business model, which companies to work with ?

Loren Soth

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If you do not have experience of running your own affiliate scheme then use Commission Junction http://www.cj.com/

Good place to start learning http://www.cj.com/advertisers/cj_access_vas.html

- Meme

I have an affiliate product I want to sell. Can anyone give me the steps to advertising it in a blog (including links, banners or whatever).

Yes! It is a matter of setting up an original blog with good content and than driving traffic! I have two blogs and make money on both of them! Feel free to check my blogs out and email me for any more info or advice!

good luck!