Affiliates for my site, help?

[Simonmc1]

Hi folks im new here, my names simon and i run a newly launched website selling rugs, i made the website myself on moonfruit, heard a few bad things about them but so far ive had no problems. My question is im thinking about ways to reach a larger audience, ive set up a facebook page, still trying to work oout how to do seo on my own aswell but i was wondering about having affilates resell my rugs for a commision but im not sure how to set up such a thing or if its even possible via a moonfruit site, any guidance on this would be great.

Cheers

 

[OldWelshGuy]

I am not 100%, but I am fairly sure you will not be able to run your own affiliate scheme through a moonfruit site, there is however no reason why an Aff scheme shouldnt work, you just need to make sure you have the profit margin to cover everyone involved.

 

[Simonmc1]

to be honest so far its just a thought i had last night so now im trying to do a bit of research, the Rugs i sell are all priced between £45-£80. i was thinking a commision of about 10% to the seller would be a fair amount. do you know of any ways to set it up, or of any programs i can add my site to?

 

[shopintegrator]

Hi,

ShopIntegrator gives you a moonfruit shopping basket solution that you would use in place of the built in moonfruit cart or any Pay Pal buttons. You add the ecommerce buttons in to your pages using the moonfruit HTML Snippet to add the ShopIntegrator ecommerce Add to Basket/Add to Cart, Buy Now, Checkout buttons in to your moonfruit pages. You still collect your payments in to your PayPal account or could choose to use one of our other supported payment processors, like Sage Pay or eWay.

The ShopIntegrator shopping cart now supports third-party affiliate integration for your checkout, we have just worked with two of our clients who wanted third-party affiliate system integration, one wanting to sell their makeup products in the US with affiliate sellers using iDevAffiliate and another who is about to start selling their digital ebooks and downloadable content through affiliates using OSI Affiliate.

We have a flexible module in place that makes it easy to connect with any other third-party affiliate system, so if you'd already chosen a affiliate tool, we will easily be able to connect your checkout to them for you so you can use your moonfruit website and run an affiliate scheme.

Find out more about our moonfruit shopping cart here:
http://www.shopintegrator.com/moonfruit

Please feel free to send me a PM with any questions you have or ask them on your thread.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Sometimes it is GOOD to be wrong

 

[skymaster1]

You could consider joining an affiliate network. The networks have access to 1000s of affiliates so by being part of one you can attract affiliates much more easily.

Some will charge huge sign up fees, but there are now networks offering realistic sign up fees for small merchants.

 

[Simonmc1]

Cheers guys, will have a look into it

 

[Websitehandyman]

If you want someone to trial your affiliate links if you set one up, I have a few shopping site and I would be happy to place your banner on them. Sort of get your stats going, it's not likely to get you sales but you never know. I also have an affiliate software license that I might being selling soon.http://www.idevdirect.com/

 

[LoyaltyCardNetwork]

If you want a free affiliate network to join then there is only one that I know of: clixgalore.

 

[marcusg2]

Simon, I think you are better off spending your time just finding a bigger audience - I doubt that the affiliates will perform all that well because you have little control over them.
Your rugs are well priced so I would recommend that you create a short 4-5 min video about them and then post it on Safe Worlds TV - the new internet advertising platform. This will give you a global audience - even places where Facebook is not allowed - and it will only cost you about 10% of your sale price once you have already made the sale.
Have a look at it here http://safeworldstv.com

 

[Cromulent]

Hi folks im new here, my names simon and i run a newly launched website selling rugs, i made the website myself on moonfruit, heard a few bad things about them but so far ive had no problems. My question is im thinking about ways to reach a larger audience, ive set up a facebook page, still trying to work oout how to do seo on my own aswell but i was wondering about having affilates resell my rugs for a commision but im not sure how to set up such a thing or if its even possible via a moonfruit site, any guidance on this would be great.

Cheers

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