Hi guys, whats everyone views on an affiliate program for e-commerce stores? Basically I'm working with a company who provide a free affiliate program plugin for stores, they also provide all the support and everything and all it is, is a 0.01% commission on products, but it works like this.... the higher your commission to them the more they promote your products e.g if you pay 0.01% commission to them you'll get basic promotion e.g social bookmarking on all products twitter, facebook, stumbleupon ect... but if you pay 0.10% you get a bit more e.g adwords PPC marketing aswell as social media marketing and then if you push it upto 1.00% you start getting a lot more such as more PPC traffic from bing, yahoo ect.. and display advertising (We design the banners for you and we promote on major blogs and sites in your niche) what do you guys think of this concept? Basically we give you an affiliate program platform, easy to use php and AJAX platform, 24/7 toll free support number, email support, live chat, IM support ect.. easy to integrate into almost any platform including shopzilla, prestashop, wordpress, magento ect.. You decide monthly how much commission you will give us starting at 0.01% but basically this is on top of what you give to your other affiliates so you say give your normal affiliates say 5% commission then we take 0.01% of that sale too. What we do is we take a maximum of 1.00% commission on every sale but we promote your products like crazy and we also promote your affiliate program to other affiliates and potential affiliate partners. Who currently runs affiliate programs? Do you do it though a network like cj or any other networks? would you be interested in hearing more about the concept i explained above regarding a free, easy to manage affiliate program application that we install for you? Thanks
We would definitely be interested in something like that. I am not sure if it would be profitable for you guys, but even for a 10% commission we would be interested. Currently running our own affiliate program.
2 JasonB - Does your site operate already? I am thinking of starting an online store, your service sounds interesting.
Wont be too long, its in development, the platform is very powerful and from what im aware of the concept has not really been done before there is other affiliate networks obviously such as cj, affiliatewindow, neverblueads ect.. ect.. in fact there are many, these kind of networks do give you a sort of affiliate platform but its not really the same kind of thing as ours will be, ours actually implements into your site and you get all the tools to give different commision percentages per catorgry for example if you had a magento store selling books and clothing, you can give 5% on clothing and 10% on books, also say books that cost more than $20 you can give 12% commision books over $30 14% ect.. ect... also we actually promote your site aswell as your affiliate program, we basically get sales to your site though our network of sites and our partners, we would be an affiliate of your site too taking say... 5% of your sales, 10% whatever you decide + the $0.01 fee per transaction the affiliates who sign up who promote your site and sell your products for you get there 5% or whatever and we just take the $0.01% we have the system for you to pay the affiliates and support them all though a sort of white label platform that would be integrated and uploaded on your site we also help and consult with the uploading and integrating into your site well... thats a fair point but, affiliates are there to earn a small piece of the pie for doing all the hard work, its a good form of marketing for ecommerce stores, specially with the new system were working on ok this is great to hear, i would be very interested in getting people involved to test the service once its live, your products will all be drawn into our databases and distributed though search channels and price comparison sites, also though our advertising network, what we will also be doing is launching a banner advertising network not strait away similar to you know chitika and stuff, products are shown in banners and if they are purchased the advertiser earns the full commission, this way they get the payment directly though us and dont need to sign up with the different programs or websites directly. It will be launching soon, I'll drop you a pm when its ready in beta for you to check out and we can talk about integrating your store, all the hard work is done we just take the minimum of 0.01% transactional sale on all sales though the affiliate program and then whatever you agree to pay the affiliates say 5%-10% whatever, we also join as an affiliate program so if your product is sold though any of our network we take the 5% + the 0.01% but your other affiliates we only earn the 0.01 - 1.00%, its your affiliate program free with no set up costs and we promote it via google, we'll big on keywords lets say 'web hosting' it comes to a page on our network for web hosting comparison, user reviews ect... your products will be for a basic commission of $0.01 but for the higher transactional commision that you pay us we actually promote your site though google directly so the visitor goes to your site to a landing page, its your site but its like a custom url, yourdomain.com/promotion/jasonbsaffiliatecompany123 <--- for example this just is basically your home page but with our affiliate commission from you guys being tracked, you can even pick the keywords, you have an admin in your store or on our website either area you can log into, our custom portal or the area integrated into your site, for example if you sell a certain product 'basket ball jerseys' for example, you can put a list of keywords or use our keyword suggesting tool say 'La lakers jersey' , 'orlando magic jersey' this would then promote your products and website on google, bing, yahoo and many other ppc sites, we're even looking into facebook ads too --- A little note, i hope i havnt confused anyone with this, its easy to manage and set up, its a great way to run your affiliate program hassle free and also get more sales too
Can u brief some more about your site..have u optimized your site? the programms which u discussing here has done or going to be done?