Shareasale too small to market my product? Need insight on program

Exactly. That's something I was careful to explain to the buyers of my WSO about becoming a ClickBank vendor. People think you just sign up as a vendor and affiliates will flood through the gates to sell your product. In reality, your own recruitment efforts are what will bring you the best affiliates when you are just starting out.

If by that you mean "will you get alot of good affiliates quickly from shareasale" then the answer is very likely no. But my answer would be the same if you go with cj or linkshare.

The biggest thing those networks will give you up front as a new smallish merchant is credibility that you will pay affiliate commissions and not run off with the money.

How are you accepting payments now? There may be much cheaper solutions that would do ok now and then you can move to a network later once things get rolling.

I wouldnt advise you to spend you last 500 market dollars to get with shareasale.

ShareASale can be a very effective platform for merchants that put the effort into it - recruit affiliates, offer competitive commissions, but most importantly - work on the conversion issue that you mentioned earlier. You can offer your affiliates a $1000 commission on every sale, but if you have a 0% conversion rate that $1000 will equal $0. Affiliates are smart and will figure that out quickly when they aren't getting any conversions from you...when they figure it out, they will go somewhere that has a better "offer".

ShareASale has some incredible tools and features (in fact, some of the best in the industry), over 500,000 registered affiliates, 3600 merchants etc. The size of the network is comparable to any other network. But it is a self-managed platform . That means that YOU control the program, YOU recruit affiliates, YOU communicate with them. Be wary of a commission based network that offers to manage your program...big conflict of interest there.

Finally, B2B merchants will always have more challenges to overcome within affiliate marketing. Simply because affiliates tend to go where the sales are...there are many more individuals buying online than there are businesses. B2C = Huge, B2B = still up and coming. Don't expect huge numbers right away. It will certainly take some time to grow your affiliate program to see the results that you are looking for.

I wish it were just that easy. The process of finding affiliates is largely a one to on adventure using google to find relevant sites that might be interested in your offer. There are things you can do to find out who is linking to or promoting your competitors. Then you just make them a better offer.

They have a directory that lists all the merchants that use their platform.

here is the link
ShareASale

Brian runs a good system with shareasale.com. He has been around a really long time and has built a solid service for small to medium size merchants.

Its not a bad option. I just don't want you to go into it thinking you are very likely to get a whole bunch of affiliates promoting your offer 2 days after you signup.