yes Im going to say screw the euros I make daily from Cj and leave too lol Look the only problems I see with Cjs is poor reporting and slllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww loading times of their site otherwise I have been more than happy with them If I put in the results of one campaign I ran from one client no one in here would believe me the results were so good that I was afraid every day that Cjs would cancel my account because even to me who I knew had not committed fraud the figures looked like I had. I'm not going to name the client sorry I will only say it had something to do with getting paid for generating leads. if your not making money from the cjs clients you have chosen you may need to examine how you are generating traffic and in specific what keywords you are targeting. adspy pro is good investment to research any product or affiliate program you plan on promoting.
Check your pulse. If you cannot make money with CJ then you may need to make sure you are alive. Seriously. I use PopShops, BANS and now Affiliate Blog Builder, what could be easier. Create a blog populate with products via Affiliate Blog Builder... Tag Ping, Social Bookmark, get some links maybe an article or two and bang... consistent money. Now I am combining BANS, PopShops and Affiliate Blog Builder to pull traffic 3 ways. Good luck...
Too soon for give up... read this.. 1. You don’t get enough traffic. 2. You get the wrong traffic. 3. You promote the wrong product to the wrong people. 4. You give up too soon. 5. You don’t understand your product. 6. You don’t rely on your affiliate manager. 7. You can’t build a proper website. 8. You don’t research your niche. 9. You don’t have a niche. 10. You only promote one product. 11. You don’t know how to build a landing page 12. Your copywriting sucks 13. Your design isn’t appealing 14. You overloaded with banner ads and drove prospects away 15. You built your site in flash loser 16. You didn’t insert your aff code properly (ha ha!) 17. Your testimonials are teh gay 18. adsense overload 19. You lose your customer with expired Aff product links 20. Your page loads far too slowly. 21. Your images don’t load. 22. Your merchant is offline. 23. Your merchant doesn’t pay his affiliates. 24. You don’t have a variety of merchants. 25. Your merchants don’t have what the shopper wants. 26. You expect instant results and give up before you have really tried 27. You never finish getting the site built fully 28. You dont give the visitor enough information to make a decision 29. You give the visitor too much information and never close 30. You try to promote too many products at once 31. Not Knowing the difference between sell and pre-sell 32. Trying to follow every self-proclaimed guru <<<<<<<<<<<< 33. Failing to maintain focus and having too many offers 34. Thinking MFA means Marketing For Affiliates 35. You think affiliate marketing will get you rich quick 36. You don’t use your affiliate stats to improve your conversion 37. You don’t use your site stats to improve your traffic quality 38. The keywords you go for are too generic 39. The nature of the offer is not very clearly presented on your landing page 40. You waste money on buying shit unrelated traffic to read other 59 list visit this page... http://www.pogung177.com/2008/03/99-reasons-you-suck-balls-at-affiliate-marketing/
I agree, CJ doesn't have good advertisers. All I searched gave 0 results. Very disappointing but I'm not leaving it yet. Trying another strategy.
CJ seems to be ok, not a site that I make to much off of. But they do have some top affiliate programs on their site...I will keep punching it out and eventually something has to give.
And I thought I was going to be the odd one out and say how good they were. I seem to be earning more money with them after ebay has left. It's a different story with ebay though. I normally clock up quite a few sales by this time and but now I've only earned 90p for April. The tracking seems to be OK and I'm getting a lot of page impressions but no sales or leads. I wish cj would have more UK based merchants though.
CJ has more top brands than any other affiliate network (even Linkshare & Performics, in my opinion). Dell, Apple, BestBuy, Staples, Lenovo, HP, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo!, Weight Watchers... the list goes on & on.
N that's for sure. too son to gave up buddy. Do some more appropriate research, use some appropriate tools.
For people in the UK Affiliate Window is a good starting place. You can set up a whole shop in a few minutes if you just want a general shopping portal. Here's one that I've added to my site. http://www.agilitybits.co.uk/shop_window/affiliate/index.php