Who's making money with affiliate websites?

[voasi]

This topic is for all the newbies out there who are interested in designing their own affiliate website and need a push in the right direction or call it incentive!

Who is making money with affiliate websites? How much are you making per month on average? What big purchases (cars, houses, boats, etc.) have you made with your affiliate earnings?

All responses would be great! It would be awesome to see some real, hard numbers here for the new guys browsing these forums looking to jump in with both feet!

Thanks for all your input!

[Cedric]

Who is making money with affiliate websites?

I am.


How much are you making per month on average?

That's between me, my accountant, and the IRS.


What big purchases (cars, houses, boats, etc.) have you made with your affiliate earnings?

Everything I own (including a house) is paid for with affiliate eanings.

[Investor4life]

I have successfully made money from a company who has an affiliate program for the past 4 years. I'm in Hawaii and the company is in NYC- prime example of how important it is to find a legitimate company when it comes time to cutting the checks. My assts, home, car, investment properties...etc are all paid off as a direct result of my monthly income from this company. There is hope for us independent workers! ;P Look hard and you can find legit. companies

~Kristin

[vanviere]

I'm making a little bit... here and there. Still have a full time job though...

[vanviere]

no house yet.. darn!

[lisan]

Who's making money with affiliates websites?

Certainly, many of our affiliates in the EYI Affiliate Program are making very good money! Here's a list of our top 10 earning affiliates for Feb.2004:

$3,350.29
$3,299.46
$2,690.65
$1,215.03
$1,173.50
$1,076.75
$625.68
$391.06
$306.73
$298.67

This earning was based on only one product. We just added another product into the program so imagine the possibilities. Check us out if you get a chance.

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Hi,

I am making a little profit. But started 3 months ago only, so I expect to grow my checks.

These days I earn £70/monthly which is not much, but if this continues to grow this way I expect to earn
£400-500 by the end of this year and to make it my full time job.

BTW, here in my country £70 is 1/3 of the average salary, so I am happy for that :)

Have a nice day or night.

Marian

[rybo]

As an affiliate manager to a program set up last summer I am beginning to see sales grow for a number of our affiliates.

Like all programs we have a great percentage of affiliates earning very little or nothing at all, but then there are those who are taking home quite a bit!

It is completely relative to the amount of work being put in. Those earning nothing are not doing anything (why did they sign up?), those earning a little now and again simple have a banner on their webiste that they rely upon for trade.

The top earners are those that have taken an interest in our service, request support (which is always provided) and are pro active in selling the solution.

The potential is there for everyone - you just have to be prepared to put in the effort. This makes sense.

Good luck with your efforts, and make sure you select the products/services that you feel comfortable with, confident selling and happy promoting.

All the best,

[C French]

Ourlil site is only 4 or 5 months old. It's ironic that in the first month we were live we made a nice size sale. I think we had a total of 5 visitors that month. Now we are at an absolute stand still. We're getting the clickthru's but no sales. I guess we really need to take a better look at search ref's to better understand what our visitor's are searching for. I won't be quitting my day job no time soon, so as long as I can keep breaking even from adsense, I hope we eventually figure it out.

[C French]

opps

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Hi,

I am making a little profit. But started 3 months ago only, so I expect to grow my checks.

These days I earn £70/monthly which is not much, but if this continues to grow this way I expect to earn
£400-500 by the end of this year and to make it my full time job.

BTW, here in my country £70 is 1/3 of the average salary, so I am happy for that :)

Have a nice day or night.

Marian

Well, another week has gone and currently I am earning £80 monthly :)

[juzzme]

I make a decent income from 1 affiliate program. Currently adding my own affiliate program to a new site I've created in an effort to learn the other side of affilite programs. I'm paying cash for my 2nd home with my affiliate earnings at this time.. as well as paying for my sports car, my affiliate earnings paid for my current home as well. Not so bad for a hillbilly from NC.. lol. I encourage all to stay after it.. there's gold in em thar internet hills!

[amberstar702]

I have found that asking that question is akin to asking a person's age, weight, measurements :-)

To break down the barrier, I can help you with some affiliate stats from a dating program. Last year, I was Affiliate Director of a dating niche market with whom I am no longer connected. Cannot be more specific. As you have probably heard, 10% of the affiliates earn 90% of the commissions and I found this to be true.

Most affiliates earned no commissions at all. The highest commission was $850 to a large, very well-established website with great offers and content that had nothing to do with dating but was very relevant to the particular dating group. These people sent out a newsletter on a regular schedule which included the dating information.

Average commissions were from $50 to $300 of the rest of the 10% of affiliates. Rate of commission was 30%-35%. As with most dating sites, membership is free. However, the money is made from conversions (when free members become paying members).

I hope that information is of some help to you.
Regards,

[EJRS.COM]

At the bottom of my signature you will see a music link. I love that as that one link makes about approx $500 a month which I use to help several people who are financially in need.
When I first saw that site I thought it was a big joke as it looks so spammy and the website goes on and on but since a friend introduced it to me I thought it was not gonna hurt since it was free. So I tried it out and has proved to be a real blessing not just to me but many people as well.

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Well..£115 a month = about $230 monthly!!!

Expect $1.000 monthly by the end of this year.

[amberstar702]

I only glanced over your website but it certainly looks like MLM to me. Back when I came online in 1998, the Internet was full of lotto advertising that has since petered out.
I am curious about how your program works. Will you explain it as briefly as possible? Like so many others online, I like to cut to the chase so I can determine quickly if there is something there for me - or not!
Regards,

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Hi,

ok as simple as I can...

I am an affiliate of VWD which is UK company whose offers playing UK national lottery and also EuroMillions (new European mega lotto) online using a special mathematical syndicate system which improves odds of winning.

As an affiliate you earn monthly provisions for introducing new players.
The only disadvantage of this program is that to become an affiliate you need to be an active player yourself.

How you earn:
You earn on 7 levels..if you build a group of 500 people or more you earn on infinity levels.

You get 4 GBP monthly for every member in your 1st level
You get 1 GBP monthly for every player in 2-7 level.

When you introduce 5 players you cover your monthly fee (which is used for buing tickets to lotto) and you play richest lump sum lotteries for FREE!!!
With every next member you build a residual ongoing monthly income.

My offer is that if you sign up with me I give you 3 members...more info on my page or email, so 2 more to introduce yourself and you are building a nice income + have big chances to win couple of thousands or millions in UK or EU lotto.

[amberstar702]

My question: Exactly how much money must an affiliate pay each month?
Regards,

[Paid 2 Lotto]

My question: Exactly how much money must an affiliate pay each month?
Regards,

Monthly subscription is £20 GBP
For that you receive 44 chances to win twice a week if you choose to play UK national lottery
Or 36 chances a week to win EuroMillions.

However to be honest and save your time or dissapointment..there is another £20 pounds reserve fund ( which is used in case you do not manage to pay your monthly fee)..but this is payable back to you once you generate enough commisions to cover your 2 months fee.

And you pay a registration fee £4.95 for 1 year.

So to sign up you need £45,

NOTE: Once you introduce 5 members you play for FREE and can build a nice monthly income.

[Karen Hudgins]

Hi!
Our top affiliates each earn $5,000-$12,000 monthly. We have very few that earn less than $100 monthly. Most earn anywhere from $200-$2000 monthly by promoting our long term care insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, annuity, 401K rollovers, replacement windows, siding, sunrooms, and roofing websites. With a wide product line to choose from, almost all of the affiliates who join our program are able to find something they are successful at promoting and earning commissions on. I am a firm believer that affiliates can make money, some 6 or 7 figures a year! Maybe I'm on the wrong side. :)
Finding a program that you can work with and offering suitable programs for audience is a great place to start on your way to top monthly earnings.

[Blackicicle]

I make about $150-$200 a month!

[jackson992]

I am currently at about $3500 a month having 5 sites trashed by Google during The Ides of March

[getAnyRX.com]

Who's making money ? ...

I know colleagues who are in my line making great money!

Like us, if you try this, avoid mix up with Canadian systems for a while ... until you get hang of safe and sound USA based systems and the Congressional dust settles down ... to avoid hassles with FDA, etc.

Regards ... Roy

[griffkim]

In another thread I asked for recommendations of an affiliate network where I could have affiliates join our program. It took me a little while to sign up with the strongest recommendation, Share a Sale, but we got it resolved and we're up and running.

It is my hope that I end up paying a lot of money to affiliates. If they are making money, I'm getting qualified leads. I've set it so that Webmasters referring qualified leads make $10 per lead. I hope that it entices many people to participate.

And, as a previous member wrote, I've gone into this venture with the idea to help those interested promote the product by supplying content, articles, interviews, etc. Whatever it takes.


Kim Griffiths
Cash For Your Policy
www.cashforyourpolicy.com

[Tropical]

When I read all the previous post about how much money everyone else is making .I wonder what am I doing wrong with my site? Is it because I have only just begun? I have this site up and running for the last 3 weeks or soo( complete newbie). I am not dismayed because I already have over 300 hits in less than 3 weeks,with 2 leads on my main product, the dating e-book, but the products that I am promoting, I am yet to generate a sale . Can anyone point out what is wrong with my site or any free tips? How can I get more hits and more leads? I have already submitted my site to be spidered by google and yahoo. I also post a lot on the local radio station website. I am into affiliate programs , if you are wondering!
http://www.freewebs.com/successfuldating/

[Linda Buquet]

Hi Tropical,

#1, get your own domain and a paid hosting account for credibility.

#2 re-read Cedric's great advice here:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=17938

[johnmcm]

I can't stress enough the importance of design when you're presenting any product. Internet surfers are becoming savy and they do know the difference between a good site "PROFESSIONAL" and a bad one "HOME MADE".

A great web site costs about $200 to have professionally designed. Yip I said $200. We have a whole department that just do face lifts fast!

You may have all heard the expression, "Would you buy a used car from this man". They won't!

So spend the time on finding great design and all those clicks will turn into business.

Quality clicks are hard to get PLEASE don't waste them. They will make you money!

You can find us here: http://www.whitelightweb.com

[jackson992]

oh please,

When it comes to affiliate marketing the majority of the sites are nothing fancy design wise

[Cedric]

I agree on the importance of design. And with Jack.

Here's what's important to end-users:

1) Site loads quickly
2) Site is easy to navigate

If those two items are there, end-users don't care if you use the most advanced coding techniques or Front Page Templates straight out of the box.

Which is not to say you won't want to move beyond the basics ... but don't move beyond them until you've mastered them.

And if you think mastering "easy to navigate" is, well, "easy" -- you haven't mastered it.

[sangiovesse]

ive tried a couple and no luck

[sangiovesse]

Can anyone give some advice on how to get on the right track to making Affiliate marketing a full or part time job. I am currently enlisted in the Navy but getting out in December and would like to find a way to work from anywhere in the world with just a computer and internet connection.
Thanks in advice,

[john678]

Who is making money with affiliate websites?

I am.


How much are you making per month on average?

That's between me, my accountant, and the IRS.


What big purchases (cars, houses, boats, etc.) have you made with your affiliate earnings?

Everything I own (including a house) is paid for with affiliate eanings.

I am also making money from affiliate marketing, but I am not making enough to quite by a large house yet, but a small one maybe.

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Can anyone give some advice on how to get on the right track to making Affiliate marketing a full or part time job. I am currently enlisted in the Navy but getting out in December and would like to find a way to work from anywhere in the world with just a computer and internet connection.
Thanks in advice,

Hi,

you are still asking for some advice, but when I offered you serious help you didn´t even replied to my second email.

If you are looking for some get rich quick schemes, I am sorry, I can´t serve.

Serious affiliate marketing is like any other business, you need to invest your time and patience to learn and to get from a slow starting track to a highway.

There is not such a thing to get rich overnight, but if you treat this like your business you will succeed.

Consider this like going to another college, or university. I you invest couple of years you can retire after 3,4 or 5 years.

Which other school will pay you while you are studying?

Your checks will be small at the beginning, but will grow as you will learn how to do it properly.

Marian

[jamesgreen]

Hi.

In my opinion nothing sells better than personal effect products. Weight loss, pain relief, look good, diet, dental, anti-aging etc.

These are ever-green areas that convert well. I make approximately $5000 every month just promoting a natural diet pill and nothing else. Take a look at my site Phentramincenter.com (http://phentramincenter.com).

JG

ps: If you have specific queries PM me.

[zookeeper]

In my opinion nothing sells better than personal effect products. Weight loss, pain relief, look good, diet, dental, anti-aging etc.

Agreed. There is a lot of $ to be made in personal effect products. Online pharmacy is huge, but if you don't want to take the risks involved w/ the pharm game, natural products can also payout huge.

A couple good things about natural products when looking from your customers standpoint are:
1. They can solve the same problems for your customers as the pharmys, but no prescription/doctor visit is needed.

2. Customers may feel embarrassed about going into a store and having someone see them buy certain products, so they would rather order discreetly on the web.

[amberstar702]

Hi Jamesgreen:
I checked out your website and see that you have a PR3 - even though you have no links and only a one page site. Is this an affiliate site? I am curious as to what SE positions you have with what keywords.

If you are doing $5,000 per month with just one page, that's great. However, your PR flies in the face of everything we hear about Google's requirements regarding content and links.

I would love to hear specifics.

Regards,

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Hey,

In my business I earn $400 monthly after 5 months since I started and my earnings are growing 20-30 % monthly.

Easy and simple system..anybody can do it too...I will show you how.

Marian

[PXJ]

Easy and simple system..anybody can do it too...I will show you how.

I emailed you from your site but havn't got a response yet. I want to learn about becoming an afilliate with your company.

Let me know.

[Paid 2 Lotto]

PXJ,

I sent you a private message

Marian

[voasi]

Glad to see this thread stay alive and continue to grow with great additions.

Paid 2 Lotto, you might have something people would be interested in. $400 a month is about 95% better than most affiliates out there. Duplicate that system on 4-5 sites and you are ready to really start focusing on your affiliate business.

[Karen Hudgins]

If you are seeking a pay per lead program, our affiliates earn on average $700 monthly with some earning well above $8,000 monthly. Our partners promote our insurance, financial, and home improvement websites.
We are also an affiliate of DentalPlans.com and earn about $200 monthly from their program through the placement of 1 text link.

[jackson992]

I wish I could figure out how to incorporate lead programs into my site. Right now all my pages are product pages so I can't see how many sell something that's not a product

[RobinB]

I just registered the first sale off of an affiliate and my traffic is going up. I am so excited. I would love to hear any input.

[affiliatemax]

Who is making money with affiliate websites? How much are you making per month on average? What big purchases (cars, houses, boats, etc.) have you made with your affiliate earnings?


This is a question which is often asked but the real big earners are probably going to keep quiet about it, so you are unlikely to get a really representative answer. Some people earn a few hundred dollars per month, while I know of people who earn over $10k a month. (A select few even earn over $100,000 monthly!)

Personally, I think revealing your income is a bit of a personal thing which people, for various reasons, are not always happy to do. In my case, suffice to say I earn enough to make affiliate marketing my full time living and have done so for the past 4 years. However, have not made enough for a house yet (but have you seen UK house prices!) nor a boat, although I did buy a kayak with my affiliate income/ :) The main benefit for me is the freedom to work from home, work my own hours, go hillwalking in the Scottish mountains when its quiet (midweek) - I am the type of person who hates being tied to a routine and being told what to do, so the flexibility and freedom of affiliate marketing appeals.

The internet changes so rapidly that income does fluctuate rather a lot - you can lose a good Google ranking, your best merchant may change their terms or even end their affiliate program... so once you start earning a decent amount put some away for a rainy day.

So my advice would be: diversify, don't put all your eggs in one basket, and have different websites, different merchants and income sources (pay per lead, pay per sale, adsense, pay per click advertising, seo, etc). Like anything worthwhile in life it also takes time and effort - put in the hours and the rewards should eventually follow, but don't expect overnight results or to make a fortune from whacking up a few banners. The often quoted 5% of affiliates who earn 90% of the money are, as has been said, those who take the time to analyze the merchants web site and build pages designed to attract the people who are most likely to make a purchase.

Find a niche (or several), avoid the highly competitive markets (credit cards, casinos, etc); put in the hours, and the financial rewards will eventually follow.

All the best,

Mark.

[Karen Hudgins]

Hi Max,
That is great advice. Persistence brings much success especially in the affiliate world.

[goinggolf]

We've just introduced an affiliate program for our golfing equipment site and the top affiliates are doing well, bringing in much needed sales and the relationship is great.

We were very sceptical to start with and didn't think it would be a major revenue stream but early results seem to suggest we were wrong.

Long live affiliates....:)

[Karen Hudgins]

I highly recommend to any merchant to begin an affiliate program. They take time to manage and recruit affiliates, but we have had ours for almost 4 years now and the program brings in about 70% of our leads.

[scallihan]

This topic is for all the newbies out there who are interested in designing their own affiliate website and need a push in the right direction or call it incentive!

Who is making money with affiliate websites? How much are you making per month on average? What big purchases (cars, houses, boats, etc.) have you made with your affiliate earnings?

All responses would be great! It would be awesome to see some real, hard numbers here for the new guys browsing these forums looking to jump in with both feet!

Thanks for all your input!

Over the last two and a half years, I've gone from a sideline, to part-time, to now full-time, with all of my income now coming from affiliate sales. Not getting rich, but am earning a decent "middle-class" income.

[RobinB]

I made my first sale with my site. I just love the challenge of working with my site and adding new content. Watch for new information and techniques on relaxation.
Robin

[BagTheCash]

You put a lot of time and effort into this game and you can earn some money.

After my experiences of a directory this week I think the question should be IF I'll get paid!

J--
http://www.bagthecash.com

[Linda Buquet]

RobinB,

Congrats on your 1st sale - the rest will come easier from now on.

BagTheCash,

Fingers crossed you get your moolah ;-)

[tarzan]

I was making $100 a month in March, $300 - in April and more than $500 in May in one of the pharmacy affiliate programs which paid lifetime commission.
The pharmacy niche is quite profitable.

The conversion ratio was so high (one sale out of 30 visits from Google Adwords and one sale of 20 clicks from Goclick.com). I was so excited and hoped to make a thousand till the end of June.

But after I returned from a vacation and checked my mail box, The news came out of the blue blue sky!
First Google banned all drugs. But that was not the bad news, the real bad news was that the company I partnered with couldn't pay my commission, because it couldn't get their money from their credit card processor.

Later, I found out that there's been a very hard pressure on the whole drug industry for the past three months.

Lots of pharmacy companies went bankrupt these months. My company is still alive, but is not accepting any orders at the moment.

I've started promoting other programs with a good supply/demand ratio. I think I need to diversify my online income to make it stable.

[Karen Hudgins]

Dear Tarzan,
Sounds like you've had a tough couple of months. :( It is probably not very comforting, but I"m sure you're not the only one who has had a negative impact from the online pharmacy industry. We have recently stopped linking with online pharmacy sites and are removing those that we have on our sites. If you are looking for other programs to promote, I'd be happy to recommend a few that I know to be good. What industries are you interested in?

[dentalplans]

The amount of money our top affiliate make has a lot to do with the amount of time and effort they are willing to put into the program. I would say organic traffic is the best way to drive traffic, building domains and pages targeted at various popular search phrases and then pumping up the domain with Page Rank. Once you have a few sites ranking well, build out multiple domains, with unique content and you should domainate the organic results in no time!!!! (Too bad it's not just that easy, but philosphically doable).

[Scolan]

Well, this topic looks like as good of place as any to introduce myself. I am just beginning m ventures in Affiliate Marketing and WebProWorld appears to be a highly active and informative resource. This will certainly be a challenge for me while I hold a full time job; however, I am entirely committed to making by business a success.

I have acquired by business license, address and accounts and am eager to get my first website up and running. I have done some beginning research on some starting products, although after reading several good topics here; I am now restructuring my objectives and the order in which to complete them. I have so much to learn and this looks like a great place for advice and information. I look forward to conversing with others gaining some new friends along the way.

I currently have taken some advice given by Cedric on another topic in regards to structuring my priorities and would welcome any additional advice others may have. I hope to become a respected and eventually contributing member of this forum community. Thank you for your time

-Scott

[Linda Buquet]

Hi Scott,

Welcome to WPW. You will find this a very friendly and helpful affiliate forum. If you are following Cedric's advice you are off to a good start. Look forward to your participation!

[Karen Hudgins]

Dear Scott,
Welcome to affiliate marketing! You're going to love it and hate it, but I promise if you work hard, it Will be worth it and profitable. Evan has given some excellent advice. Many of our top partners use to the tactics he is referring to. You'll find that many members that use this board are very open to chatting with you and will offer their assistance and advice without hesitation. My biggest piece of advice before you spend any money on getting your affiliate website up and running is take time, a good amount of time, to research what you're going to do and create a marketing plan. Then choose programs you wish to promote and reach out to the affiliate program managers and ask for any pointers they may have and ask affiliates as well for some pointers. If you do not make tons of money right away don't get discouraged. Stick with it, and you might just be able to make this your Full Time job. :)

[eCommn]

I've been an Affiliate Manager for several programs. Some of the affiliates I've worked with make up to $4,000 USD per month. Great money! But the majority make under $1,000. However much you make depends on your belief and commitment to the product(s).

Recently I launched another Affiliate Program for Perfume.com and I see the same trend. Some of our affiliates are already making money with our products while others are learning the ropes! But that's what I'm here for, supporting the ones who are having a tough time.

Aside from a great product at great pricing, pick a program that will provide you support and help you make money with them. We're offering great products at great prices and we're there for our affilates.

Check us out!

[john678]

Who is making money with affiliate websites?

I am.


How much are you making per month on average?

That's between me, my accountant, and the IRS.


What big purchases (cars, houses, boats, etc.) have you made with your affiliate earnings?

Everything I own (including a house) is paid for with affiliate eanings.

Me the same!

[malcolm]

I've been working really hard for many, many months and so far my all time earnings add up to about $150 US and I'm real tired.

I've got a clutch of sites, many of which are doing well for page rank etc. but there are clearly things that I'm doing very wrong. Any advice would be deeply appreciated.

www.greatstuff.co.uk
www.mylocalplaces.co.uk
www.mylocalservices.co.uk
www.businessvibe.co.uk
www.biketrek.co.uk
www.cotswoldinternet.com

Plus these that are very new and still having construction work done in the background:

www.blaizers.com
www.famedirectory.com
www.shopperama.com

Thanks, any pointers pleeeeease?

Malcolm

[D4www]

Hi Guys' this seems as good a topic as any to introduce myself. I've been lurking for a while and think you have a great atmosphere here........great stuff.

A potted history about myself. I'm Male, 40ish married, no kids unfortunately, have been self employed the past 20 or so years. I only purchased my first computer 3 years ago so it's been quite a steep learning curve.

Like some others here I feel very fortunate to be able to make a full time living off the internet. I love the freedom it gives you, I love working when and where I choose.....long may it last. :-)

I personally am very technically challenged so I put my success down to pure hard work and tenacity and also the hardline salesperson lurking inside of me.

Oh well I've babbled too much already, have a great day all, I'm off to read some more of this great resource.

P.S. Malcolm, I had a look at all your sites, they look great.....I'll be in contact.

[Gamerscomplete]

I use to only use one affiliate but ive been forced to branch out to about 5 now when I first started I was doing awesome got my site up started doing incentive stuff brought in $1000 first month (I was only 17 at the time and the site was just for fun at first anyway) second month I pulled in another $1000 third month went to $2000 I started dumping money in advertising spendin a bunch of time going through the rest of there offers climaxed at $4000 would have been maybe double that but my host decided they thought it would be good to shut my site down mid month for about a week or so. Then my affiliate decided they would help out with the problem and tell me that I wasnt alowed to incentize offers over $1 I was using like $26 offers and stuff rollin in the money started decreasing extremly rapidly after that went back down to $1000 then $600 now im looking to be making prolly around $50 this month from all 5 of my affiliates put together. lol my word of advice when you get something good milk it for all its worth lol oh and for things ive bought with my affiliate earnins lol it would take a long list but lets just say it spawned bad ebay habits lol I still have about $2000 of it left in the bank and ive made about $12,000 total from my affiliates (in the past 10 months)

[cowboy]

Tropical-

Hello. You received some solid advice from "Catalyst". One more thing, though...read the affiliate agreement carefully.

If you review the agreement of the dating eBook you are promoting, you'll see it says:

[" I currently don't use cookies or IP tracking, so you are paid only for sales that result within 24 hours of a visitor visiting from your site. If they return say, three months later you are not credited with that sale."]

So...you send 300 guys to David's site, but none are "ready-buyers". You don't make any money. However, they all sign-up for his newsletter, (which is great, funny, and full of excellent advice) and within the year, they all purchase his eBook.

You hooked them and brought them in the boat -- he sails away to market with the catch. Pretty intelligent system, huh?

Just think if he has only 100 affiliates sending him the same amount of guys? Why should he care if it takes some of them a year to buy his book? This guy is no dummy. He has a great product, but he's really intelligent as a marketer.

Just something to think about while you're wondering if anybody is making money.

CB

[voasi]

I've been working really hard for many, many months and so far my all time earnings add up to about $150 US and I'm real tired.

Malcolm,

Keep on plugging away. Keep on reading the forums and sites you come across. You'll eventually get where you want to be.


I've got a clutch of sites, many of which are doing well for page rank etc. but there are clearly things that I'm doing very wrong. Any advice would be deeply appreciated.

Pagerank isn't the determining factor if you rank well in the search engines are not. Try to get industry related links pointing to your site. Work on your anchor text. Start submitting to directories.

Gamerscomplete,

Sorry to hear about your unfortunate happenings. Hopefully things will start to pick up! :) Your post was great though. You made an excellent amount of money while you were on top of your game and that is just what some of these newbies need to hear...read! :)

Per Cedric and John678 - I encourage people to post $ amounts and actually items purchased. The great thing about forums is that you can stay 'anonymous'. Your ideas are your own. If you want to be anonymous in your post, then do that, but try to give some incentive for other affiliates to jump into this game. I think success is sharing your successes, helping out others. The money and 'stuff' you receive because of the money you've earned in the affliate game isn't success, IMO.

[eCommn]

Who's making money? I'm proud to say my affiliates at perfume.com.

Just launched a little over 2 weeks ago and some of my affiliates are already making over $300!

[voasi]

eCommn,

That's great! Hopefully they'll keep up the good work for you and your business as well as for themselves and their commissions! :)

[eCommn]

I was an affiliate myself for several programs so I know what needs to be done to build successful relationships. I make myself available to them for support and make sure my company does everything right to track sales.

[Jason - SmartDraw.com]

I was an affiliate myself for several programs so I know what needs to be done to build successful relationships. I make myself available to them for support and make sure my company does everything right to track sales.

eCommn, what's your take on allowing affiliates to bid on keywords in search? It's become a subject of great interest to me recently.

[eCommn]

I know of companies that restrict on proprietary keywords that are essentially product brand names from being bid upon in Google & Google enforces this promptly and strictly. I also know of companies that only allow their affiliates to bid on proprietary keywords if they identify themselves as affiliates on Google Adwords.

Personally, I think when a company opens itself up through the affiliate program, it should allow its affiliates to bid on those keywords otherwise I don't see the logic in restricting affiliates from bidding on those keywords? Why do they need to put restrictions of the use of certain keywords? For their own use? If it is the case, are they taking business away from their own affiliates? I think affiliates should be allowed to use proprietary kewyords if they identify themselves as affiliates of the company.

[Cedric]

Per Cedric and John678 - I encourage people to post $ amounts and actually items purchased.

Yeah, I'm not posting my income. And "everything I buy" is as specific as I'm going to get on items purchased.


but try to give some incentive for other affiliates to jump into this game.

What do I care if other people jump into this game?


I think success is sharing your successes, helping out others. The money and 'stuff' you receive because of the money you've earned in the affliate game isn't success, IMO.

My success as an affiliate marketer is ABSOLUTELY measured by the money I earn -- there is no other measure.

My success as a human being is a whole 'nuther matter, but it's also NOT measured by whether I tell people how much money I make or what I bought today.

[Jason - SmartDraw.com]

I think affiliates should be allowed to use proprietary kewyords if they identify themselves as affiliates of the company.

Interesting point. How exactly would they indentify themselves as affiliates? In the actual Google ad itself?

Thanks for the input.

[eCommn]

I think affiliates should be allowed to use proprietary kewyords if they identify themselves as affiliates of the company.

Interesting point. How exactly would they indentify themselves as affiliates? In the actual Google ad itself?

Thanks for the input.

Yes, some where in the Ad, indicate 'affiliate'. The company can write to Google and have this set up so that anyone who registers an ad under the proprietary keywords will be contacted and confirmed of the affiliate status with the company.

[Ian L.]

Personally, I think when a company opens itself up through the affiliate program, it should allow its affiliates to bid on those keywords otherwise I don't see the logic in restricting affiliates from bidding on those keywords? Why do they need to put restrictions of the use of certain keywords? For their own use? If it is the case, are they taking business away from their own affiliates? I think affiliates should be allowed to use proprietary kewyords if they identify themselves as affiliates of the company.
In my opinion, Brand misrepresentation is one reason why merchants do this. Once a Brand grows, you shoudn't allow just anyone to use it, especially in a loose fashion that is not indicative of the owner's overall Marcom strategy.

Click here (http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=12122) for full article.


The company can write to Google and have this set up so that anyone who registers an ad under the proprietary keywords will be contacted and confirmed of the affiliate status with the company.
Google's legal team stopped mass policing of trademarks more than 6 months ago, so this is no longer true. And even when they did police it, there was no confirmation. Affiliates just got a rejection notice. Hope this clears it up for others.

[Ian L.]

My success as an affiliate marketer is ABSOLUTELY measured by the money I earn -- there is no other measure.

My success as a human being is a whole 'nuther matter, but it's also NOT measured by whether I tell people how much money I make or what I bought today.
Amen to that Cedric! :) Good to see your posts here.

[canistotasoftware]

In my opinion, Brand misrepresentation is one reason why merchants do this. Once a Brand grows, you shoudn't allow just anyone to use it, especially in a loose fashion that is not indicative of the owner's overall Marcom strategy.



Ian,

while I can somewhat see your point in this, I would think that would be part of the affiliate managers job to keep up on the use or misuse of brand keywords. Preventing your affiliates from using it because someone "might" misuse it could quite possibly ties their hands, In many cases the brand identity is what sells the product and not being able to market it makes it difficult if not almost impossible for affiliates to do their job. In that case why have a program at all.

[jackson992]

For me, the major problem right now is the search engines. My traffic is down 70% from Google and banned in Yahoo for my main site. This means no traffic from MSN either. On the plus side, I have noticed that the Yahoo bot has started crawling the site again so maybe I'll get back in.

For affiliates, I think one of the most important things to keep in mind is not to get too overwhelmed. There are so many things you can try to sell and easily get overwhelmed. Like in life, tackle one thing at a time. I think if I were to start over, I would start with a niche specific site instead of a mall site.

[kokopoko]

I'm making money. My first site went up 3/27/2004. I made 72 in April, 73 in May, 140 in June, 700 in July, and 600 so far in August.

[Linda Buquet]

Jack may the Google Goddess and Yahoo King, smile down upon your sites and bring you sales!

kokopoko it sounds like you are off to a good steady start. Keep building more pages!

Happy selling to all!

[webwoman]

...I am making money with a few affiliate programs. Biggest checks have come with some of Corey Rudl's products, but I still get checks from some affiliate programs I started 4 years ago and haven't worked in any way for nearly 3 years.

Go figure.

As far as specific figures, that would be telling...

[Ian L.]

Ian,

while I can somewhat see your point in this, I would think that would be part of the affiliate managers job to keep up on the use or misuse of brand keywords. Preventing your affiliates from using it because someone "might" misuse it could quite possibly ties their hands, In many cases the brand identity is what sells the product and not being able to market it makes it difficult if not almost impossible for affiliates to do their job. In that case why have a program at all.
You make a valid point canistotasoftware. This is definitely a hot topic in the industry, among affiliates and aff managers. But to address your point:

In theory, if there was unlimited man power and resources, a merchant would be able to police and monitor trademark mis-usage. Unfortunately, when your program grows and each affiliate has multiple sites with multiple pages using your trademark, then the policing becomes impractical. Merchants usualy set some guidelines for Affiliates to follow. If guidelines are intentionally broken and warnings have gone out, then a suspension is in order in my opinion. Guidelines are set to even out the playing field and when someone knowingly tries to take advanatage of the system, then they should be prepared to take on the consequences.

The above deals in particular to trademarks. It is a business decision whether a merchant will allow an Affiliate to use their trademarks and it is pretty simple. Either yes, no or somewhere in between. Should be made very clear in the guidelines.

As for Brand, I think that is not as easily categorized. The Brand, in my opinion, is not how many times a user views your banners or how an Affiliate uses trademarks. Brand is really a much bigger "thing". It is the experience a user takes away with them and something that sticks to them, either now or later. For something this important, you would never want an affiliate or anyone else to misrepresent your Brand.

An exmaple of a trademark misrepresenataion, you would never see Coca Cola allow a distributor to make their own advertising using "Coke is cool", or "Coke is the one". Coke is it! There, I said it. Oh wait, am I going to get in trouble for using someone else's trademark without permission? :)

As for Brand misrepresentation, you would never see Pepsi (or at least not in the very near future) try and market their products to the same audience as Coke would nor would you see Pepsi allowing their partners to "misrepresent" their Brand either. One beverage company has a majority market and the other targets the smaller (but ever growing) younger generation. Hence, Pepsi has the final say as to how and when someone uses their trademark and how their Brand is represented.

At the end of the day, guidelines are set by merchants and (hopefully) made clear to Affiliates. I hope this will shed some light into why a merchant may set certian guidelines pertaining to limited-use of trademarks and marcom styles.

[voasi]

Wow...haven't checked this thread in a while...it sure has grown! :)

Anyone else?

[Paid 2 Lotto]

Well..£115 a month = about $230 monthly!!!

Expect $1.000 monthly by the end of this year.


Well..here is a new update...

My sept. earnings were $700!!

I think I will reach my goal ..$1.000 by the end of this year.

Plus I have found one great program..no sponsoring, no promoting...just invested in july and this month I have got $600!!!..My expected december earnings will be $1500!!!

[mlevenhagen]

Paid 2 Lotto, you have a lot of energy:) There is such a thing as overusing you exclamations… kidding with ya!!

I was just buzzing through this thread and since Voasi asked the question “anyone else?” I’ll say a thing or two.

Back to the start...


This topic is for all the newbies out there who are interested in designing their own affiliate website and need a push in the right direction or call it incentive!

Who is making money with affiliate websites?

It would be awesome to see some real, hard numbers here for the new guys browsing these forums looking to jump in with both feet!

I apologize if I missed some of these points while browsing this thread and they’ve been mentioned already.

Yes, there are a lot of people making money as affiliates. There are also a lot more people making none… Not all affiliates are affiliate marketers. I think of it like this: there are two schools of affiliates.

1. The Affiliate: An “affiliate” joins a program, adds a link to their site and forgets about it. That’s probably the majority of affiliates (part of the 90% that aren’t making money). Their marketing efforts amount for less than 10% of their time. The other 90 or more percent is spent on other activities.

2. The Affiliate Marketer: The “affiliate marketer” joins a program, builds content or a sales structure around the a link, spends more than 75% of their time promoting the program, and doesn’t sleep at night because their mind is continuously thinking about how to better market their affiliate programs.

Obviously the second group (Affiliate Marketers) sit in the top 10%.

How much are people making? You’ll never get an accurate picture here. This is too small of a cross section of people. The people making the big money probably don’t spend a lot of time in forums reading stuff about affiliate marketing. They’re already experts. It’s probably more likely that they are having a search engine discussion somewhere.

I hate leading people to my site in forums. I don’t like be sold to (being a salesman) and I prescribe to the “Golden Rule”… but I think I can make an exception because this is free and it will possibly help some of my fellow members. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong…

Check out Lesson 2 of my Free eCourse (http://www.webofopportunity.com/OppCourse_Lesson2.htm)… It gives a lot of good information, insight and ideas about affiliate marketing.

Good Luck Everyone!

[Tropical]

Guys it seems like I have been taken for t a joyride. Thanks to a forum member cowboy he revealed to me that the ebook that I am promoting currently don't use cookies or IP tracking, so I only get paid only for sales that result within 24 hours of a visitor visiting from my site. If they return say, three months later I will not be credited with that sale."


Now aint that bunch of bull. I do not know how I overlooked the fine print. I feel like a Big*** . I have spent months promoting and generating leads for this man only to find out all my work was in vain!!! The thing is, that ebook is the only product I am promoting. I read almost all the advice from this forum and I decided to concentrate on the dating niche.



I am going to drop this dating-ebook. The book promised $39.00 per sale for the affiliate !! But for me to make a sale within 24 hrs with my small website is a dream come through. I made no money whatsoever.



I learned a bit about marketing and so now I am looking to venture into another one (hopefully with a longer cookie timespan).



Does anyone has any great affiliate program that actually works. I just need a extra cash to buy my dream BMWX5 This is a good time for me to do some online business, I am presently on vacation and will be for the next 3 weeks I will be fixed to my PC looking forward your responses.



Hey no programs with a huge financial imput, I do not have much more remaining dollars to promote anything. So send me good ideas. I am going to make this website defunct and try something else..Please please, only good affiliate programs allowed.



Promoting that dating e-book will be history in a few days time. Thanks again for all your inputs!
http://www.freewebs.com/successfuldating/

[canistotasoftware]

Sorry to here that Tropical, welcome to the trials and tribulations of affiliate marketing. Beware though, even programs that use cookies are becoming less attractive nowadays with all the software out there that removes cookies from users machines and the growing number of people that turn cookies off completely and/or that delete them regularly when browsing the internet. Good luck on your search for a program that better suites your needs

[Tropical]

Guys I really badmouthed that program today,the thing is, I had totally given up, so I say to myself let me take a look at my stats one last last last time, and I did, and low and behold what did I see, a sale. I just might stick with the program after all. What do you guys think? Honestly? Besides actually owning a website of my own how else can I be asuccess with this free website!


This is what it comes down to. I still do not know how to decipher all this info but here goes. I know all this may be private but I dont mind sharing. So after more than a year of promoting the Doubleyourdating ebook here are the stats which I freely and fearlessly provide:
Impressions...........1571
Clicks................67
Leads.................16
click thru ratio......4%
S/U...................24%
No. of sales..........01
EPC...................$0.60.....
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DECODE ALL THIS FOR ME PLEASE THANK YOU!!!I need to know what all this mean. Am I doing ok, or am I wasting my time. Your honesty is very much appreciated.

Here is the site which all this was done. I personally submitted the site to the major search engines. I paid nothing for advertising, because honestly I have no money!!
http://www.freewebs.com/successfuldating/

[WealthStream]

I've been involved with affiliate programs for about three years now. My monthly earnings are usually quite variable - anywhere from $100 to $700 per month.

[voasi]

Tropical,

Your click thru ratio isn't too bad and I know some affiliate marketers that would kill for EPC of $0.60. I also know some marketers that do very well with that kind of EPC so I think you're on the right track.

Continue to market yourself (site) and traffic will soar, as well as commission check. :)

Anyone had recent success with their affiliate marketing? Long-term success is great too, but recent success, like within the last 6 months?

[mrsjordanjr]

I'm signed up with many affiliate programs but have only made sales from two of them, one for small business web hosting and one for airline tickets. Neither one has made me a whole lot of money yet.

http://www.jordanenterprise.com

[Tropical]

Tropical,

Your click thru ratio isn't too bad and I know some affiliate marketers that would kill for EPC of $0.60. I also know some marketers that do very well with that kind of EPC so I think you're on the right track.

Continue to market yourself (site) and traffic will soar, as well as commission check. :)

Anyone had recent success with their affiliate marketing? Long-term success is great too, but recent success, like within the last 6 months?


Thanks for the encouragement. Remember I have not paid for any kind of marketing as yet! These results came form posting a lot on a local radio station website, submitting the site myself to google, yahoo, DMOZ and a few other directories. So how should I invest my commission check and use it to get better results. How should I use $30 US for marketing? That is the amount I intend to spend fod the next month or so. What are proven paid marketing strategies? If you are afraid of giving out your tips on this forum , please PM me ok...

[voasi]

Tropical

Withouth divulging this thread into a "effective marketing plan" thread, I would like to stay on-topic with this thread.

But...please post a new topic and I'll be more then happy to give you some pointers and maybe some of the other members here can give suggestions as well.

Another major affiliate forum I frequent also is http://www.associateprograms.com/discus . I would also post your questions over there and see what responses some of the top affiliates have to say on that forum.

[amberstar702]

Hi All:

I agree that it is very important to read the affiliate agreement. IMO, a marketer who will only pay you for a customer who buys within 24 hours does not have your best interests at heart. Many stats say that a potential customer will not buy immediately but will return to the site FIVE times before making a purchase.

I also would not sign up with a program that pays you quarterly. Then you have to wait around 45 days after the quarter to be paid. If you get paid monthly and the company goes out of business, you lose money and it is disturbing. Imagine if you have built up three months of commissions and they go south?

I would tend to be more likely to trust affiliate programs offered by managers like Linda and Karen that post regularly here on webproworld because they have high visibility and have established a good reputation. Additionally, they provide good information and are accessible for help.

Good luck to you all! :-)

Cordially,

[Tropical]

amber..I totally agree with you. It is very important to read all the fine print of the affiliate agreement. I have been guilty of doing that, because some of them are so long and confusing, for a particular affiliate program I had to show it to good friend who is a lawyer and he was able to make sense from the agreement. I tend to avoid affiliate programs that ask you to pay in order to be a member.

[101homebiz]

I am earning also good money with the internet. I started in February 2004 with Google AdWords and Clickbank Products, worked a little bit with CBMall.

Currently I run my two Work at Home Websites
http://www.101homebiz.com and http://www.101workathome.biz

Which were started in August 2004.
Where I concentrate the promotion currently on the first one, adding content from time to time (currently I am busy writting Training Sites for my affiliates).

Additionally, I continue with PPC Search engines and Affiliate programs, in US and in Germany. All projects are doing well, it takes a lot of testing, but there are profitable.

I confirm the advice given here "not to put all eggs in one basket". Multiple Stream Income is for me the key!

Alex

[Tropical]

hey 101homebiz, I just visited your websites and was impressed at how simple they are, and you say you make a good living! wow... Give me a shout when you begin your affiliate program.
I am considering going into the money making market also. I did some research and found out the term money is one of the most popular words searched for on the internet and people are looking for more ways of earning extra income. I hope I am making the right move.

[101homebiz]

Hi Tropical,
Simple but effective (;-) Regarding 101homebiz, I had a problem, for some days an old version was displayed. So you should take a look again.

However I do not concentrate the marketing activities just by promoting the Websites only. Only few affiliates sign-up directly from the site. I work with special sales pages that I promote via PPC.
There are several sites you can not see directly, but they are found by search engines, since they are optimized for that purpose.


Alex

[Tropical]

Have you guys heard of currency exchange program. "Currency exchanging is relatively unknown but incredibly lucrative business opportunity. Currencies houses all over the world are trading one currency for another and one E-currency for another. For this process to happen, the major trading houses need capital to create liquidity in the markets.

This is where you come in. By effectively lending your money to the pool of available funds you are paid a upfront fee when your money enters the pool and a fee when the funds come back (usually within 24 hours)".

I found the offer on Matt Gagnon site. www.mazu.com
Does this make sense?

[SnerdeyWebs]

I started selling website template last June in 2004. And I have been blessed. I have since purchased my own servers and sell hosting. Templates are a HUGE part of the internet. I sell Flash Templates, Intros, PHP actually there are almost 7,000 to choose from.

I invite anyone with or without a website to join. That's what I did and I never looked back. I bought a front page ad in the local small town newspaper and it keeps me trucking. Word of mouth helps a lot.

Check out how simple it is and join us today! Over 30,000 affiliates world wide already joined.. are you next? No matter how many join. It's what you do with it and how you promote that really makes it count.

If your a web designer. It's perfect. You get a head start in design and a couple of changes to it and it's unique to your customers. We even have an online site builder you can use or pratice making websites or purchase it when your done.

Snerdey Webs - Affiliate Program (http://www.snerdey.com/affiliates.html)

Nothing but the best!

[Tropical]

SnerdeyWebs are you saying that the designs on your present website is all made of templates? If so, I like em. I have got to get me some of those. Nice site too.

[SnerdeyWebs]

Yes, we change our site about every 1/4 year. They are all templates of all kinds. And, Thank You.

Chow!

[pghproducts]

PGHProducts affiliate program...
We have been in the business since 1998....
Our company has been fully up and running for three weeks... please visit www.hoodiadietpill.com

Our newest products phentramine hoodia diet pills and adaprex hoodia diet pills have had incedible convertions and we are paying out the highest commisions top in the industry... up to $50 for 3 month supplies

One of our affiliates made in two and a half weeks ( since we opened) around $2500 and is going even stronger.

If you are interested call us at 1-877-445-1034 or visit our site www.hoodiadietpill.com

We look forward to a long a prosporus future together

www.PGHProducts.com

[skateservice]

I'm running aZoogle ads on my website and they have a great affiliate payout for anyone that signs up and serves ads.

http://www.azoogleads.com/az/JoinAf.php?i=6413

So, if you have space on your site that's stagnent aZoogle has great ads and actually makes you money from them. No joke, i pay my hosting expenses and then some with the payout!

[/url]

[Tropical]

Yeah who else os making money?

[wwwbug]

i am an affliate of some site for a year,and make a commision of $300/month,recently i make a site and put some related affliate programes in it ,i hope it make more commision for me and can make me luckier

[bluey22]

Hi Guys,

I just wanted to say that I have been marketing online for quite some time now and I have seen the good, the bad, the ugly...and the lost causes.

I just thought it would be appropriate for me to mention that those people that aren't tracking their web visitors are usually the lost causes or are doing okay but could be doing ALOT better.

Listen up, you need to track where your visitors are coming from and where they go when they leave your site.

Even if you only use the above strategy you are only making half of what you could be making now. Trust me.

It took me a while to learn that marketing online is a numbers game and if your not tracking your potential customers, your only guessing. It's as simple as that!

Over the past 6 months I developed this state of the art tracking software called Ad Tracking Pro. Don't worry it's not hype. I'm SO tired of all the hype on the net these days!

If your serious about making money online and sick of leaving money on the table then I highly recommend you visit:

http://www.adtrackergold.com

[K]

Hi all!

I started doing affiliated promotion, as a complete newbie, approximately 35 days ago (only 3 programs, 2 dropped after 3 days).

In 2 days I managed to earn around $100 (I couldn't believe it :)), minus $10-$15 for PPC. My commissions till today are around $1750. My total costs are around $400 (exclusively AdWords). My clicks per sale ratio (conversion) is around 7%, which seems high, at least to me (not complaining :)).

I remember that for the first week I was in constant panic mode. If I didn't get 1 sale a day, I was starting to freak out, changing the campaign too much in the process and then not knowing exactly what affects what.

A good advice I got was *not* to freak out at the beginning, when spending money on clicks with PPC campaigns. It's important to get feedback as fast as possible and if you're bidding too low on start and trying to much to lower the costs, you can't really get any of it. Also, I think it really helps if you promote stuff you are interested in. Otherwise learn about the product/service as if you are the customer buying it.

Currently, I'm totally in love with Google's AdWords and plan to concentrate solely on payed PPC traffic, for now. My goal is to make $150/month and I'm more and more confident I'll be able to achieve that level. Even more so now, that I found this forum :).

Sales to everyone! ;)

[bluey22]

Hi K,

Those commission cheques aren't all that impressive. I have to say if you are starting out it might seem exciting but wait until you are making $10 for every $1 you invest like I am. Then it starts to get fun :)

Anyway if you want to see my latest software that I developed that allows me to do this I highly recommend you visit my site at

http://www.adtrackergold.com

All The Best

[mike_l]

The Health business is growing! Our program for health products such as Hydroderm, BodyShape, Lip Enhancer, and even Pet Vitamin called Vet Balance.

Our top affiliates make around $30K+ a quarter. Their strats range from websites to PPC campaigns.

There isn't much affiliate competition in the Health business so if you want to make some cash and in the US then join our program for the payout of as much as $19 per confirmed FREE TRIAL.

P2P US Sign UP (http://www.partner2profit.com/index.cfm?action=register)

For international, sign up to our program in CJ:

Hydroderm (https://signup.cj.com/member/brandedPublisherSignUp.do?air_refmerchantid=141567 4) - #1 in CJ Category of "Health & Beauty > Cosmetics"
BodyShape (https://signup.cj.com/member/brandedPublisherSignUp.do?air_refmerchantid=159573 8) - "Health & Beauty > Cosmetics"
VetBalance (https://signup.cj.com/member/brandedPublisherSignUp.do?air_refmerchantid=159574 0) - "Home & Garden > Pets"

Free Trials are easy to sell.

Goodluck and Happy Sales!
-Mike Ly

[tw100491]

I am just starting to make money after approx 2 months,don't want to be accused of spaming,don't know if I can put url in sig (mabye someone will tell me)but you are welcome to mail me @

info@aw-agencies.com

Regards,
Aubrey Wilson
N.Ireland

[Linda Buquet]

Sure you can put your URL in your sig, as long as you follow the forum rules about sigs.

http://www.webproworld.com/rules.html

[webwo]

the site is http://pricingbot.com, they offer affiliate program not long time ago. They are new auction site, so they provide a lot of good offers to webmaster, here are the detail:

-30% of our end of auction commission goes to affiliates
-$0.05 Per Lead
-$0.01 Per Click
-60 day cookie

for more detail, check out their site

[voasi]

Not to jump at anyone in particular, but this thread is turning into - How can I promote my affiliate program?

If you're an affiliate manager, please promote your biz by putting your links in your signature. If you'd like to post what some of your affiliates make per month, that would be a healthy contribution to this thread.

This thread is about the amount of income you've earned as an affiliate.

Thought I'd peek in and see what's been going on...looks a little off-topic.

[Paid 2 Lotto]

I bought my new Jaguar from my VWD earnings

[FighterSpirit]

I work with CJ from 2003 and until now it is work for me.
Month after month I make more money and I must say CJ Rocks!!!

[ogletree]

I make anywhere from $5K to $10K a month from affiliate and adsense income. I have been doing this for a year and a half. I work at home for a few hours a day. I took off 5 months last year to start and end a world of warcraft addiction. I made about $80K in 2005. I could make a ton more if I just got off my butt and did some work. :) I just hate working. I get up around 10 am and screw around blogging and reading forums a lot. I listen to webmasterradio a lot. I'm lucky to get a few minutes of actual work in a day.

[StephenR.]

:-> I can't believe this thread is still kicking. I read through some pretty good posts since I last checked in. Just out of curiosity does anyone here run a purely CJ driven site?

[ProMint]

I do atleast 5k per month steady flow on one affiliate program using residuals and a couple k's on the others. I'm planning to broke a mil this year hopefully especially with hooking up with some big names in the marketing business. I never travel alone. :)

PM

[megahertz28]

StephenR.
The wrought iron site in my sig. is 98% CJ products. I usually make approx $200-$400 a month from them. I've found linkshare to not have very good click thru / conversion rates in comparison for some reason.

[jameslittle]

emm....reading thru all your posts..interesting!! I never really thought that there are real people can really make a living on the net! WoooOOo

Thinking that the net is flooded with all sort of program, how to decide which would be the best choice?? and how to kick it off??

little newbie

[Linda Buquet]

Hi James,

Happy Vday.

This thread has some great tips for getting started.
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=21311

[affpro]

emm....reading thru all your posts..interesting!! I never really thought that there are real people can really make a living on the net! WoooOOo

Thinking that the net is flooded with all sort of program, how to decide which would be the best choice?? and how to kick it off??

little newbie

Hi James,

One think keep in mind its not a "ME TOO" kind of business, but a serious one. Consider it very seriously and it really works, enhance your appetite for internet earning, gather knowledge about affiliate earning (try to find sources which are free)

Good Luck

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Suresh
http://www.affiliateprogramhost.com/

[cjamrit]

I just started recently with www.lootdeals.com and it is geting $1K per month...

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www.liquoryard.com
www.jungleetoys.com

[bizzniz]

Can anyone give some advice on how to get on the right track to making Affiliate marketing a full or part time job. I am currently enlisted in the Navy but getting out in December and would like to find a way to work from anywhere in the world with just a computer and internet connection.
Thanks in advice,

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[kelliott07]

I have been involved with affiliate marketing for about a year now and I am making significant money every month approx $4000/month. I have not purchased anything significant yet but I am eliminating all my debt month by month. I have also outlines my success in my blog "Market Associate Time" To learn more visit http://www.marketassociate.com.

[pupopupo]

Starting with small expectations was the key for me, now things are rolling and i couldn't be happier.

[incrediblehelp]

Why is this thread allowing spam?

[miller4631]

i have made around 2300 so far but i am just getting started. its easy and require very little time

[monkey182]

I've been marketing online for 8 years now and I've promoted more than my fair share of affiliate programs. I've tried my hand in everything from trusted companies, such as, ClickBank and CJ, as well as, other lesser known companies. There are a lot of copycats out there, so it's important to identify who's legitimate if you want to achieve more than mediocre results. Check out this one page Proof? (http://www.onedaybillionaire.com/examples.html) if you'd like some insight as to some things to beware of.

[sonali]

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[Galiutza]

I have had pretty decent luck with spam bully's affiliate program that pays a 50% commission

the details can be found at

http://www.spambully.com/affiliates.php

[C_Perkins22]

I have had great luck with affiliate programs.Yes you really can make money.I myself make about 2,200. per month when I really apply myself.My best was 3,800. in 1 month.The thing to remember is you have to work at it.Don't think you can start with one program and quit your day job.You cannot limit yourself to 1 source of income.The best thing,and everybody who is in this business I'm sure will agree, is you have to have multiple streams of income.Never rely on one source.Stay informed.Start Small.Invest earnings to advertising.Add to your programs as time, money and understanding of what you do and how to do it grow and last, but not least, Don't give up.Keep trying and keep an eye on competition to stay, if not ahead of the game, at least in step. Good Luck.

[TheStrelnaTrader]

Hi everyone

I started this affiliate activity a week ago and haven't earned anything yet... However, there are a lot of people being in touch with me already who are more than intersted in the project. I am sure there's going to happen something huge in the following a few days!

Good luck to all of you!

[DEone]

Wow, it's encouraging to hear about the money being made out there...

Although many of the sites I see listed in this thread look 'spammy' to me and I'm usually immediatley turned off by the hard-sell tone I see on them.

My site (pupforum.com, see my signature) is doing pretty well through contextual ads and affiliate sales. Our store (click the Shop link in the top nav) actually consists of data feeds from several affiliates. Our site takes the data feeds and dynamically merges them into a seamless, single storefront.

I'm looking for advice on further promoting the store w.out resorting to the spammy style of sites I mentioned earlier in this post.

We have yet to participate in any PPC campaigns as my goal has been to earn money w.out spending any. So far we generate our sales and other revenue simply from high traffic and lots of returning visitors. But I am open to trying an AdWords campaign, etc if anyone can convince me of its worth. But I'd also like to hear ideas for enhancements to our site/store-front that could possibly have a more immediate impact.

Thanks!

[thecashcow]

I am doing ok selling affiliate products :)

[lolmom]

I'm just starting out and so have gone up and down with earnings, but nothing excellent yet. My goal is to make $500-$1000 by the end of the year/month. We'll see. I hear so many people say that they've done it. Why can't I!

[mjh4001]

I have recently entered the affiliate marketing market and have listed a number of what I am using so far on my website. The site address is Mharnett.org and you should have a look at it. There might be a program or two you would like to try.

Best of luck!

[thecashcow]

I make a few dollars with Clickbank ;)

Josh

[andy2k]

Hi Guys,

I am having a weight loss drug related site dealing with phentermine, xenical, adipex, meridia etc diet pills.

I am looking for an affiliate marketing partner who can provide all the details information about their sites products including pic , description, price etc of the products along with shopping carts with good commission.

Can anyone suggest me the best affiliate partner for diet pills related site.

[StephenR.]

StephenR.
The wrought iron site in my sig. is 98% CJ products. I usually make approx $200-$400 a month from them. I've found linkshare to not have very good click thru / conversion rates in comparison for some reason.Geez, I just took a look at your site. That must have taken a while to build. Nice work. I agree with you on LinkShare. The amount earned from them is marginal next to CJ. So will CJ's new javascript link function adversely affect your site?

[antman]

I am new to affiliate program. I guess one has to be spend time working for the money than just staying put and not doing anything. I will tell my story once a little success sets in.
Cheers!

[jackson992]

I make minimal with CJ but lots more with Linkshare LOL