Newbie: how do people manage their publishers ?

[brakkar]

Hello,
i'm new to affiliate marketing.

However, I have lots of exeperience in webmastering and search engine optimization, so this is not the problem for me.

The problem is with the publishers.

I checked CJ, and clickbank, and they seem good.
I plan to create a site with various items to sell.

But how people usually manage publishers ? Do they focus on a single source like CJ ? I saw great programs on 5staraffliliateprogramme site, but I don' want to endup with publishers, in Cj, clickbank, 5starsaffuliate and many more as it might become to difficut to manage ?!

How do people usually deal with this issue ?

Oh, and beside CJ, Beefree, clickbank and 5starsaffliiate, what are worth affiliate publishers providers ?

Thanks,
Brakkar

[Linda Buquet]

Brakkar,

I'm a little confused. You ask how do you manage publishers, but I think you mean the merchants or advertisers, is this correct. You want to BE an affiliate or you want to START your own affiliate program?

[brakkar]

Hello :)
Sorry for being confusing.

I want to be an affiliate of multiple sites... and I wish to know how people usually deal with multiple affiliates ? There are networks like CJ, but there are also great offers like 5starsafiliate and I don't want end up with too much site to manage !

I wish to know also what are the best affiliate networks.

Thanks,
Brakkar

[Linda Buquet]

Oh, OK that's what I thought. You want to BE an affiliate and want to be able to manage your MERCHANTS that you partner with.

If you are new it's probably easiest to just start with CJ. That way all your merchants are on one network, you have one reporting system to learn and you get a combined check for all programs you make commission from.

[Gary Golden]

CJ, Linkshare, BeFree - As you want to have some of the big names in their, ie. Kmart, Walmart, or other leaders in their respective areas.