setting up an affiliate program

[Mattk1983]

I am looking to set up an affiliate program for my site but I dont have a clue how to go about it!

I only accept payment by Google Checkout or Paypal, is this a problem?

 

[Seb de Lemos]

How do you want your affiliate system to work? Would you be paying affiliates a % of each sale/profit?

If you can track referrals manually, can't you just pay your affiliates by Bank Transfer / Cheque, or even Paypal once you receive the money yourself?

 

[Mattk1983]

yes i would like to pay affiliates a % of every sale from their referrals

 

[hschwulst]

Have you had a look at clickbank? it is a dot com site.

I was into affiliate marketing a while back and this was the place to go to when looking for products to sell/market. I remember it being rather effective and well supported.

I hope this helps

 

[aaacbc]

No Matty k50

we are in the last development stage (testing) an affiliate tool we specially created for online businesses to help them to promote their products and services. Once the tool is fully operational we will make it available to the public for FREE their will be no costs, fees or commissions due in relation with this tool. The tool is designed for easy use and administration.

We will announce the launch on our website as soon as the tool is ready for use. So visit our website and don't miss this opportunity.

The "Download" could be made directly from our website www.aaacbc.com

 

[Mattk1983]

thanks i will look out for that.

can anyone else help?? All I really need to do is be able to track referrals and then link them to sales... I can keep track of the affiliate payments myself

Matt

 

[holidays2crete]

have you tried contacting the big affiliate companies for price quotes?

CJ, affiliatefuture, tradedoubler, affiliatewindow?

 

[myles-at-icomplete]

I'm reviewing all this now.

I like linkshare, affiliatefuture and webgain. TD is too big.

I'll compare via Google Trends to see traffic growth.

Myles.

 

[myles-at-icomplete]

Clickbank seems cheap (and hard to use eform for sign up)

Only $50... Does anyone have any experience with them? Or reviews?

 

[itstudiohosting]

Hi there,

jam.jrox.com might be of interest to you, we are looking at using it for our web hosting.

hope this Helps

 

[scrizzle]

Look at linkconnector.com and/or clickbank.net

 

[allanchester]

Hi
I have just added an affiliate section to my company website.
We installed VM Affiliate which works with Joomla and Virtumart.
We have not gone live yet as we always complete lots of testing before launching any new extension to the site but I have to say both the front and back end are very easy to use and setup.
I would recommend this to anyone looking to do this themselves rather than have a company controlling your affiliates.

I hope that this helps


Allan

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[Michelle Bray]

There is a fantastic software package for setting up your own affiliate programme from idevdirect - there are other packages available as well but building your own network of affiliates is more cost effective this way. Alternatively you could go to someone like affiliate future or commission junction (just mentioning 2 of numerous companies) who manage the whole process for you but it is more expensive as you have to deposit funds to pay affiliates and they charge fees for handling. There is also a very useful affiliate website - affiliates4u which is a forum/info site on the world of affiliates. rgds Michelle (pls add the 3 's and dot coms to complete my wording as it won't allow me to post urls until I have built up some more replies)

 

[ThriftySoftware]

Hi
I expended a lot of time and effort some years ago researching this, I needed a program to run on an adult site for a cliet - in the end i decided that all the hostes solutions were too expensive, so we opted for a system installed on our server - these guys set us up
http://www.qualityunit.com/postaffiliatepro/

That software ran for 5 years without a hitch , all I needed to do was run a report at the end of each month and pay out whatever was due, either by cheque or paypal, I see the latest software version now actually integrates with the payment method - so doesn't need the 'monthly cheque run' that i used to do. It worked fairly well for us we had around 300 affiliates in it, but decided to close it down last year due to abuse (adult sites attract some strange visitors!) If you need any more info, drop me a line [email protected]

Cheers

Steve

 

[HFServices]

Hello.
I have just written an affiliate manager system that might be easily adapted to fit your needs. If you can give more details or a link to the site you want to use it on then I may be able to help.
Thanks

 

[CarCare Direct]

how do you find people with web sites that want to run your advert? I have a lovelset of banners, a way to track the link to a sale and a way to apy, just no one with my adverts on their site?? Anyone help?
Thanks
Cool bananas

 

[astutiumRob]

We used, host and have integrated for number of clients the idevaffiliate system - works very well.

You do get a lot of spammers/wasters sign up in order to "promote" their ppc/virus/spam URLs (with all affiliate problems you should validate who you are allowing to sell/promote your products)

We've only just stopped using it ourselves as we're beta-testing our own system which is more tightly woven into the visitor tracking/analytics/stats for our own websites.

 

[Brightpearl]

Hi Chris,

Using Pearl you can tags affiliates to sales so that commission is automatically calculated. At the end of the month you hit a button to see all your affiliates and how much you owe. You can even raise the invoice or PO in a couple of clicks.. Simple!

You can set default % commission rate for each affiliate or specify a % or fixed £ amount per order. Pearl is super flexible so can accommodate pretty much all ways of doing business.

Pearl will also handle your stock mgmt, website, accounting, CRM and more.

Give me a shout if you would like a free trial account!

Andrew

 

[Subbynet]

how do you find people with web sites that want to run your advert? I have a lovelset of banners, a way to track the link to a sale and a way to apy, just no one with my adverts on their site?? Anyone help?
Thanks
Cool bananas

This is why I'd use a network, as a retailer you'll find many more affiliates using a network and much quicker. (Joining a network isn't expensive, normally starting from £100 excluding commission payments depending on how good and how popular.)

Secondly, many affiliates don't trust private schemes... Many retailers are just dodgy and will steal sales from you if possible, this is why many like networks.