Comments on: Poll Results: On Favorite Affiliate Services

By: Cash Matrix

Cash Matrix — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:23:22 +0000

What are the ingredients of an affiliate marketing success story? Is there a shortcut to Affiliate Marketing glory? All these questions play around in the minds of affiliate marketers who want to make it big in this business.

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:37:07 +0000

Lindsay: Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. It takes a bit of effort to succeed in affiliate marketing, but it can be worth it. And you’re right, Clickbank does offer higher % with commissions, but Amazon offers the more well-known products. There are pros and cons to each one.

Yvonne: Glad you think so! I use MS Office for Mac’s Excel chart-making tool. Hope that helps!

By: Yvonne Russell

Yvonne Russell — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:34:37 +0000

Hello Shai
Can you tell me which program you used to create the graphic please – very effective.

Thanks

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:33:15 +0000

Affiliate programs aren’t something I’ve focused on much (I earn most of my money from straight advertising revenue), but I pull in a few hundred a month this way. Amazon and CJ are about even for me, but what I like about Amazon is that links I put on sites four years ago still work. With CJ, a lot of merchants seem to come and go, and I end up sending them free clicks and getting no credit because I’ve been too lazy to dig back into old blog posts and remove links. Amazon is eternal, and people trust it, so they buy from there.

That said, if I were in affiliate marketing for some serious money, I’d go with Clickbank or a merchant that pays out a lot higher than Amazon. With information products, it’s easy for sellers to give their affiliates huge cuts, since it costs nothing for a customer to download an already-created digital product.