Newbie needs affiliate program untangling help!

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Hi, Warriors,

When I first started selling products, I used ejunkie for my affiliate program. Then I created a store using WP e-Commerce (by getshopped.org) and used their affiliate program plugin (which I don't like). Later, when I started hosting both paid and free webinars, I wanted to use Optimize Press for those events. I wasn't able to use my store for the events, and so had to have TWO affiliate programs (one through the WPEC plugin and one through junkie).

Needless to say, it has gotten very confusing and I want only ONE affiliate program whether for my store, or on another site for an event or course.

My questions are these:

- is Clickbank best for my purposes (I sell all digital products)?
- if I disable the WP e-commerce affiliate plugin I have, is there a plugin I can use with Clickbank (OR if you suggest a different affiliate program, is there a plugin for that?)
- Last, has anyone use this Clickbank plugin? Wordpress ClickBank Plugin PRO - User Reviews and Ratings

Thank you so much!

Katie
#affiliate #newbie #program #untangling
  • Profile picture of the author LWYSIWYG
    Hmm that does sound like a big pain in the ass.

    Well, let's see

    1. Only you can decide if ClickBank suits your business. It IS great, but not for everyone. Digital products are sold all over and CB is definitely one of (if not THE) biggest out there. But again, it depends what's good for YOUR business and only YOU can make that call.

    2. I have used different plugins for different needs and I personally like the WP-commerce, but for what you're trying to accomplish I don't think it will be the best.

    3. Not sure never used this specific plugin.

    Overall it seems like you might want to just link to things. This may keep you with 2 affiliate programs but the big marketers out there have several as well, so it's not a terrible thing.

    Let's try an example - Have a link from your webinar to the product page of whatever you're promoting with a tracking ID. That way you can tell exactly where it's coming from (hint: this can be accomplished through ClickBank)

    There's also a lesser used option, you could talk to the product owners of the products you are promoting and see if you can set up a Direct Payment page for it. This would mean instead of going through all your plugins and redirects you would promote a book, have your own page about said book, then when the customer wants to purchase he/she clicks buy now (or whatever your link is) and is directed to a buy page, instead of a product page. You will still get a commission as an affiliate (hence why you need to contact the product owner for the Direct Buy page) and you won't need to fuss with the rest.

    You could probably do most of what's mentioned here inside the major affiliate programs so that can help centralize things. IF not, then you can set up your aff payments to go to a centralized place.

    Hope this helps!
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