I contacted CJ last week because I heard they are the best/biggest network out there. After giving them my stats visitors, sales, conversion rates, ect. They sent me an email saying that I’m to small! My site has been live for about 3 years and I get about 1500 visitors a day. Why would they say that I’m to small? I think it’s because they already have 2 advertisers in my nich. Sound reasonable?
Who cares CJ r a pile of shit.. they steal your comissions.. you had a lucky escape.. try pepperjam network or somthing..
.What are the setup fees for pepperjam? Are there monthly minimums (linkshare wanted $500 a month minimum)? I'm willing to pay if the sales are there but they wanted me to sign a 13 month contract
I would recommend ShareASale , They have $25 monthly minimum, and offer best support. As an Affiliate I love ShareASale and would recommend it anytime. See more details at http://www.shareasale.com/learnmore.cfm CJ just have big advertisers, nothing else.
They said you were too small???? When I signed up for cj I had made my first web site, had 10 visitors a day, was still learning how to advertise and got accepted quick. Thats pretty jacked up. Go with other networks if CJ has that attitude SAS is a wonderful program
How could cj say you are small. I signed up yesterday with 1 hour old site and no traffic. I think you made something wrong during registration.
It looks like mxracer170 was signing up as an advertiser, not a publisher. CJ is a huge network right now, and I know that they can be unresponsive to smaller advertisers many times. Have you tried working through an OPM agency (outsourced program management) that has a relationship with CJ to try to get your store into CJ (that is, of course, if you can't manage it yourself & want to outsource your affiliate program management).
Anyone who would turn a website of your size away for being 'too small' isn't worth it anyway. They obviously think a lot of themselves, and from some of the things I have heard about CJ, the opinion is unwarranted.
CJ gives the worst service to the smaller guys (if they let you in). Forget about them. Performics has a lot of overlap in terms of advertisers and publishers with CJ and the customer service is better. Linkshare is great but then you have to work exclusively with them which might limit you down the road. Try a smaller network like LinkConnector.
From the advertiser end, I've worked in CJ, Linkshare, and Shareresults. Haven't had a chance to work as an advertiser in Performics/Google, ShareASale, or Buy.at. However, between CJ and Linkshare, CJ has a much better network of publishers (or at least one that's easier to recruit & retain top affiliates from) than Linkshare or Shareresults. CJ is worth it, as long as you know what you're doing. If you can properly fire a pixel & understand affiliate marketing, you'll do well as a small advertiser in CJ. Push back, see what you can do. What kind of product(s) are you selling - or at least, who are your competitors in CJ? If there's little demand for those products in CJ (you can tell by looking at the # of earnings bars of your competitors), CJ may not want to work with another small advertiser in that same niche - it may not be the work just to get their $500 in minimum fees each month.
You're very right. CJ has great publishers- but if you dont know what you're doing, you're in big trouble!!!
If you don't know what you're doing, you should probably hire a consultant to show you what to do - regardless of what network you're getting into. It can help a lot for setting up a system that supports multiple networks (so you don't throw pixels for 5 different networks & end up possibly paying multiple times for the same sale) and just understanding the basics of affiliate marketing.
I love ShareASale. Since I have a few wedding sites, and they have a few merchants in this field. There are only two to three merchants in the wedding industry in CJ.
Well it looks like Pepperjam is going to win my dollars! They have a setup fee that is right in line with CJ but it they give you so much more help getting launched. The commissions they charge are exactly the same with no monthly minimum and no 13-month contract. I’m not a terribly tech savvy person and the help they’re giving me get launched I feel is going to be well worth the setup fee. If anyone has had any bad experiences with PepperJam I’d like to hear them but from what I’ve seen so far my mind is made up. P.S. To the questions that were asked earlier I was signing my site up as an advertiser. Site name is MxMegastore . com and we sell mostly Motorcycle Apparel.
PepperJam is really setting the world on fire right now and getting a lot of smaller and HUGE programs on board. I just wish they would offer up more report options...other than SID.
I think,cj need to change there policy.They need to accept all kinds of advertiser.Because,advertiser only live a site as well as publisher.If they think,they are biggest,they will be down within short time.