Best Affiliate Marketing Company for Merchants?

[Roberthughes]

Hello everyone,

I run an online ecommerce website selling health and beauty products. We are currently looking into merchant programmes for affiliate marketing.

Could anyone recommend any which may be worth trying?

p.s We have looked into afilite, webgains and clix galore - So if anyone has any experiences with them, please let us know.

Thanks in advance!

Rob

 

[dirocket007]

try affiliatewindow
that one is quite good

 

[Ryane21]

Hi Robert

Just seen your post Affiliate Window are the obvious choice however a very expensive option,
Webgains would be able to help ask for Julie Wood used to work at Awin
You could also try Tradedoubler, Linkshare, and Google has a UK affiliate program now, I know they are actively looking for campaigns.

I hope this helps

Ryan

 

[SEO Lady]

I've used ClixGalore for some 5 years now and have had 100% success rate for every client. If you can create advertising banners the conversion rates are better than simple text ads. You can also link to your product catalogue for all of your items.

PM me if you have any questions,

Nina

 

[skymaster1]

We initially used Webgains but switched to Trade Tracker. Our experience with Webgains was very poor. Trade Tracker have been excellent so far.

 

[eventdomain]

I think the only way to do this is via a huge content-based website, but feel its something for the very few and most dont have the unique idea that sets it up as a domino effect.

About 4 times a year I get these companies approaching me to do the 'partnership thing' - I refuse them all.

 

[abode]

Hi Robert,

I'm quite heavily involved in affiliate marketing through my business. This is both as an advertiser with major brands affiliate companies such as affiliate window and via my own affiliate programme which I run.

implementing an affiliate programme into your website is quite easy to do and you can use free programmes like Jam affiliate. However, if you do decide to do this then you'll need to convince advertisers that you're not going to rip them off or mislead them on their commissions. For some unknown reason the major players seem to be more trusted.

To do this you need to be approachable AND knowledgeable - I had a steep learning curve when I had potential affiliate members phone me up and ask me all sorts of technical questions about tracking deduping etc.

If you use a company like affiliate window they will usually request a set up fee, monthly fee and then an overide of the commission paid to affiliates. It can be quite an expensive setup and it takes a good six months to start seeing a return on your investment.

Have a think about your profit margins and what you can afford to pay as commission for a sale. Affiliates aren't going to work for pennies so if you're average sale is low it may not be a suitable avenue. Just as an indicator, our product is listed for £49.00 we give affiliates special offers bringing it down to £25.00 and then pay £8.00 as a commission per sale - but it is a service and we could give it away for free if we needed to!

Finally, stick with small affiliates - When we first started it took us two months to sell our first product through a certain merchant. Now, 18 months on we're selling nearly 100 per week.

Have a nose at the forum affiliates4u

Good luck

 

[Websitehandyman]

The best one for support I've found is paidonresults.com you want to try and get one that already is doing well for your type of products. For example affiliatefuture do loads of travel sites, not that I would recommend those idiots myself. But POR seem to do lot of fashion and womens stuff from what I can see.

Some others worldwide here - http://www.outadwords.com/free/affiliate-marketing/

 

[shadesofblue]

I think the only way to do this is via a huge content-based website, but feel its something for the very few and most dont have the unique idea that sets it up as a domino effect.

About 4 times a year I get these companies approaching me to do the 'partnership thing' - I refuse them all.

What the hell are you talking about. Some of the information you give is plainly wrong and misleading.

 

[eventdomain]

What the hell are you talking about. Some of the information you give is plainly wrong and misleading.

If you spent the time to actually 'think' about what I said, you might get what I'm talking about.

OP wants to run an affiliate program for his website. But for him to do that effectively, he needs to recruit affiliates (which are sales people).

Now, sales people want to make money, so its vital they have their website built ( eg: an affiliate sales platform) and established to a certain level for this to work - chances are they haven't. I'm basing this on the pretty solid fact that most websites are not high traffic magnets - so without en-mass traffic there won't be enough A) Affliates joining or B) Traffic that will click on the OP's banners etc.

Without this promotion platform in the first place, the affiliate won't stand a chance of making money. Few do this well, exceptions are MSE and those 'Offer websites' like myvouchercodes etc - and the good sites cost £££ to set these up, and I'm thinking many dont have the start-up capital to begin this journey.