[Dana]

Are you making money on Affiliate Marketing programs?

Which programs are working for you and how much time do you spend on your affiliate programs?

Feel free to post your referral link in reply if you like incase others want to join up under you.

Thanks,
Dana

[ScottHughes]

I use ClickBank, but I make more money with Google AdSense. The problem with pay-per-sales like ClickBank is that I send people but don't always make money. With Google, you get paid in smaller amounts, but get paid more often. So, in the end I steadily get money.

[Dana]

Thanks for the input. Google Adsense does seem to do well for many. In my experience, it takes time and lots of work to get going but eventually is on autopilot and it's nice to see a few cents here and there rack up with little effort required :)

[clearya]

Hi,Well the 2 programs I am involved in haven't launched yet (!) but I'll keep you posted.The first is http://www.edownline.net/members/clearyaIt's launching on the 20th of this month, and is giving away free gold memberships to the first 10,000 members, which is great because it really helps build your downline.And I'm also involved in Revolving Wealth program has a reversing matrix, so every month the matrix is flipped upside down and the newest members are placed at the top!I just had to join out of curiousity alone! lol!There's no word on a launch date yet, I just thought to email them today, maybe they have a certain member count they want to reach but I couldn't say

[Dana]

I would just suggest that you be wary of programs that look like pyramid programs. Some of them are illegal and there's no way 'everyone' can make it to the top of the pyramid so someone ultimately loses. I also make it a habit to not join new programs that have a fee structure. Affiliate marketing is generally successful for the participant when you are paid to sell a product for a company, not when *you* pay a membership fee to join a program. That's my two cents :)

[clearya]

Thanks for that, I know that with pyramid schemes in some of them you could be waiting months on end before you start receiving any spillover if you aren't going to recruit. I managed to get in early and none of my referral info is available yet, but hopefully i'll be able to contact my newest referrals to see if this reversing matrix is helping them out.And with edownline, when you upgrade, you receive more for sign-ups, more of your referral earnings (down to 20 levels with platinum as opposed to 10 with gold) and you also get more banner impressions, ad credits, e-books etc. But I won't have any idea what the potential of these programs are until they actually launch!But I will keep you posted, and if they're rubbish at least I can tell others not to waste their time

[Dana]

"and if they're rubbish at least I can tel others not to waste their time" That's true, Clearya...It's good to have the benefit of other's experience for sure :0)

[thebookish]

I use CJ, but it I think it really works if you choose the right products to promote, also you will get little sales than adsense clicks, but the reward is much more better for each.

[robert]

A couple of rules in affiliate marketing. Stay focus and working with your affiliate manager. Believe it or not, a lot of fraud happens with affiliate programs on both sides of the table and I've seen many times an affiliates hard work will go up in smokes because of a dishonest affiliate manager. My advice, keep track of things and make sure that you communicate any problems.

[n.b.]

I am currently with Shareasale and Amazon. I have earned only $5 from Shareasale till now and the payout is $50 and zilch from Amazon. I also signed up for CJ but for some reason, may be because I am from India, a lot of advertisers declined my application instantly after a applied for it in an auto declination process. Only few advertisers accepted me. I don't promote CJ products now.