Affiliates are reluctant to promote PDC products because the vendor controls the payments, not a third party. It takes longer to get paid at PDC, and a lot of vendors pay late or withhold payment and then make excuses. I earned several hundred dollars for a vendor and it took forever for him to pay me. I had to tell him I was going to tell every marketing forum that he was attempting to stiff me, and then bam, money right in Paypal. And, you have to deal with PP if you intend to pay affiliates with them, and they will hold your money for one of 82 million reasons.
Yeah... and then there's the tax issue. Mike Filsaime had to pay the tax man $1 Million cause his affiliates never filed a W-9. Clickbank does all that nasty stuff for you. They send W-9 statements to your affiliates. ~ JIM
I prefer Clickbank because they handle all of the accounting issues with your affiliates... payments, tracking, chargebacks, fraud, etc. and... Clickbank has sent me my money on time for the last 10 years! They also continue to add features that are important to vendors and affiliates like... Weekly direct deposits, recurring payment options, integration with other systems, a simple checkout cart that accepts all credit cards as well as PayPal, etc. When you combine Clickbank with others such as E-junkie for safe secure deliveries, or Wishlist Member for your membership products... you have a pretty hands off, well run internet business that allows you to concentrate on marketing your products, and recruiting affiliates. Just my personal thoughts from experience with both. Good Luck with Your Products!
Would it be at all possible(being a vendor) to put up an additional site and sell the same product through different affiliate networks? or do you have to stick to just one?
For me, Clickbank was the proven leader and that's who I chose. Of course I heard bad things about Clickbank, but that usually came from folks who never bothered to read the fine print or who didn't follow TOS.
One BAD thing about CB (in my opinion) i wanted to add... they made it WAYYYYYY to easy for people to refund a product. JIM
My opinion is both clickbank and paydotcom are but in clickbank they make payment once in 15days and paydotcom pays immediately. Apart this everything is similar.
E-junkie hosts the product and offers secure delivery. You can set the links to be expired after a few days. You can use it perfectly with Paypal and it costs just $5 a month!
They are both excellent options for selling products, but for me Clickbank has the advantage because it has far more registered and active affiliates.
ClickBank is the Big Deal. The only down side is that they seem to be less accommodating. They need to learn a few lessons from Plimus.
i haven't logged into my paydotcom account in a while, and TODAY i did because i wanted to promote "TheBestSpinner" I had to click through TWO very annoying sales pages first to simply access my account. BIG turnoff.