How Can You Earn an Income On the Internet
Small Business owners: Did you ever consider starting your own affiliate program?
by Paula van Dun Retired
Paula van Dun 
Retired
This week I wrote a small business owner who had really nice products to inquire if he had an affiliate program.
He wrote back he did not. He had thought about it but the prices that companies like Commission Junction & Pepperjam are asking were out of his budget.
I can relate to that. In the Netherlands we have companies like TradeTracker and Tradedoubler where the prices are also way out of reach for many small businesses.
However there is an alternative:
Affiliate software to set up your own affiliate program with which you are in complete control. The only disadvantage is you have to build a network of affiliates yourself. But that is not so hard if you have nice products. You could use social media to find affiliates and other traffic resources to promote your affiliate program.
I am sure there are more companies the have affiliate software. However iDevAffiliate
is around over 10 years and I see this software being used on many sites.
Nov 25th 2010 05:07
RetiredThis week I wrote a small business owner who had really nice products to inquire if he had an affiliate program.
He wrote back he did not. He had thought about it but the prices that companies like Commission Junction & Pepperjam are asking were out of his budget.
I can relate to that. In the Netherlands we have companies like TradeTracker and Tradedoubler where the prices are also way out of reach for many small businesses.
However there is an alternative:
Affiliate software to set up your own affiliate program with which you are in complete control. The only disadvantage is you have to build a network of affiliates yourself. But that is not so hard if you have nice products. You could use social media to find affiliates and other traffic resources to promote your affiliate program.
I am sure there are more companies the have affiliate software. However iDevAffiliate
is around over 10 years and I see this software being used on many sites.
Nov 25th 2010 05:07
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Paula van Dun
Retired@Hi Sean. Do not throw it in the bin just yet. I am sure there are good other software too. If you have another resource than idevaffiliate you can send it to me in a PM than I will add it. It is always to offer people more resources Nov 25th 2010 05:17 |
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Sean North
 BusinessHi paula (it must be apsense e.s.p. at work again) I dont use software I get permission off them to sell their product online and build a mini site around it using prestashop which has affiliate programme built in. P.S. only joking about blog I will post in a week or so need to polish it up more :) Nov 25th 2010 05:26 |
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Dawie Bezuidenhout
Systems Engineer I.T.Thanks for this Paula, although i don't have my own products to market online as of yet, it is always ggod to learn of alternative resources. Commission Junction is expensive and more for the big players. Nov 25th 2010 05:39 |
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Sean North
Businessit is a great opensource script for those on a shoestring budget wanting to get into ecommerce, marketing their own or other product and there are all sorts of add on modules Nov 25th 2010 06:02 |
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Joseph Botelho
 Investing One Gram at a TimeVery well spoke Paula, tools are vital for achieving success on the internet you need to grasp understand then have the ability to use it to your advantage.....Learning how to do and use them is the first step why many never used them effectively....no time to busy trying to make money WORK SMART ONE STEP AT A TIME.. Nov 27th 2010 10:43 |
Hi Paula, this is one of the ways I help small companies develop a web presence, and introduce them to the power of selling online.
I'll put my blog in the bin now you beat me to the line LOL
Nov 25th 2010 05:11