I've looked in a few threads and read some interesting things people said about Commision Junction. I've read that it has more 'real world products' so that might be another way to be a success in affiliate marketing. If there's one thing I'm a little bewildered about is what kind of 'real world' products do people mean when they mention CJ? Look at the first few comments of this thread to see what I'm talking about. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=646863 The reason I ask these questions is because when I sign up for CJ I don't want to log in every couple days just to see my sales stay at $0.00. So, just want to learn as much as I can before I go out and actually take action.
Nobody knows what you can do. CJ is the number one volume affiliate program for large businesses. They have thousands of products. So what do you want? Go sign up and see for yourself. You can either make money or you can't. If you expect someone to hold your hand and tell you what to do and how to do it... then you should find a career that does just that and affiliate marketing is not it. May seem harsh to you, but that's reality.
myself similar to Thrive'n4Success , seek for someone to give hand on to help me with CJ, as i am new to entire affiliate marketing, but after reading your post internetmarketingiq i got something to be done by myself without others hand on. I hope i can do it. Thank you..
I could sell for myself, all I needed was one simple question answered, it seems like your incapable of doing that.
I think CJ tends to convert well with US traffic...because many of the advertisers are "Mainstream" (ie: Yahoo, Overstock, Best Buy, Sears) Clickbooth and similar tend to be more specialized or non-product intensive. With CJ, sometimes your hyping the company and the product/service ... It just depends. There is no hurt in trying as many as you want. The best thing is to join...get approved....then start hunting for advertisers to promote. Sometimes I get my best ideas from seeing what exactly I can promote, then you can come back here and I think people can be more helpful. I really like CJ and have found multiple advertisers to work on, and I have hundreds more that I don't have time for...yet. Good Luck!
I have had a good run of things by writing my content around guitars. I have played guitar for over 20 years, so I have kind of reviewed different equipment, blogged about different artists, etc. and have had substantial traffic from doing so. That being said, one of my biggest earning campaigns has been guitars. I currently use 4 different publishers for music instruments and that has been the most successful way to earn for me. It did take a while for the earnings to start for me though, and I am guessing that it is because I had to build enough content on my site and find the proper ways to promote products. If you choose a publisher that has a product catalog, that makes a large difference because then you are able to place ads relevant to your content within the content or around the content.
Commission Junction offer a huge database of merchants (1000s) and you'd be hard pressed to not find a product within CJ that you can build up your affiliate model around. They are also a reliable provider of payments and normally deliver at the same time every month. They also send payments directly into your bank account if you live in the UK or US too. Overall, it is a good starting network and has been around for a long time. For these reasons, it is worth opening a CJ account but your earnings will only increase if you do a lot of work to promote your site and pass useers through to your merchants.
Just come across this thread and i had forgotten that i still had a CJ account so i have decided to kick it into touch again and just added a few items to one of our gardening websites.If i can remember it done well on a beauty website we use to have.
CJ should be great for anyone starting out in Internet marketing, as there is a plethora of products (real world items) and retailers to choose from. Bear in mind that some of the vendors will not except you straight away without a quality website (the chicken and egg thing....). Usually, you can find at least one vendor in a given market that will accept you regardless of your sites status. Also, beware that some of the vendors have payment issues, and I have a friend who is currently getting the runaround. For the most part everything is on the up and up.