Trying to start an Affiliate Network?

ChrisBa

15 years ago

How much capital is a good starting point?

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mafai44 15 years ago

Thinking about it.. Where would I start?
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- jamesboulay 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mafai44
  
  Thinking about it.. Where would I start?
  
  Ask CPA networks if they need a part time account manager/support agent.
  I thought about it for a while, but with all the fraud I figured I'd be happier and less stressed honestly promoting decent offers ethically.
  I still toy with the idea and you can probably (I did the math about a year ago) start for the price of a website that'll convert companies (i.e. BestBuy, Yankee Candle) into trial accounts.
  
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- ConduciveStrategies 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mafai44
  
  Thinking about it.. Where would I start?
  
  Its really not that tough to put together, however you must have some knowledge in the industry. First place to start would be what you would specialize in (niche wise), and which platform you would like to use (HitPath, Hasoffers, etc). After obtaining a platform to use, then your on your way to hunt down offers, negotiations, contracts, etc. It does take a great deal of time to get setup, but mostly tedious work. Nothing to complicated though.
  
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nickdamodda 15 years ago

Originally Posted by ChrisBa

How much capital is a good starting point?

I've heard a lot of people say around 10k.
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ConduciveStrategies

15 years ago

I wouldn't say around 10K. You can start a network for a fraction of that. It costs zero investment to obtain offers, just negotiation skills and being attentive. But you do need to have the operation in full functional mode, so this could mean either buying more machines, software or hiring someone to help you out. But the costs will still be much lower than 10K to start it up.

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JasonWestwick

15 years ago

Originally Posted by ConduciveStrategies

I wouldn't say around 10K. You can start a network for a fraction of that. It costs zero investment to obtain offers, just negotiation skills and being attentive. But you do need to have the operation in full functional mode, so this could mean either buying more machines, software or hiring someone to help you out. But the costs will still be much lower than 10K to start it up.

So what would be your plan of action if you get a couple of affiliates doing 3-4k a week and need weekly payments to further scale???

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imback

15 years ago

Originally Posted by ConduciveStrategies

I wouldn't say around 10K. You can start a network for a fraction of that. It costs zero investment to obtain offers, just negotiation skills and being attentive. But you do need to have the operation in full functional mode, so this could mean either buying more machines, software or hiring someone to help you out. But the costs will still be much lower than 10K to start it up.

I agree with Jason you need capital to play with the Big Dogs end of story.

but I am sure a few sneak by paying upper affiliates net 30 for a few months...maybe...

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italeads

15 years ago

Starting an affiliate network can be difficult if you don't know the industry. Although, it can become much simpler if you network well.

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AdBank

15 years ago

I would say 10k is enough to start a network. You could always pay affiliates net 15 for the first couple months and put some affiliates on weeklies after that if they are doing enough volume.

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manzippo

15 years ago

Hasoffer cost you little to start on. But most of us know Hasoffers always stands for bad affiliate network.

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CreativesLinda

15 years ago

Originally Posted by manzippo

Hasoffer cost you little to start on. But most of us know Hasoffers always stands for bad affiliate network.

Just because a network uses the HasOffers platform doesn't mean it's a bad affiliate network. It would be a bad affiliate network no matter which platform they used, and there are many of those using platforms other than HasOffers. We've used HasOffers at Campaign Creatives for a year and a half now and, I'm sorry, but you won't find a more honest, trustworthy affiliate network out there. Every affiliate gets paid for every single legitimate lead every time. If we get credit and paid for a lead, they get credit and paid for a lead. The costs of other scripts are so prohibitive that good, honest people didn't even have a chance before to pursue this side of affiliate marketing. While the HasOffers platform isn't the most user friendly, I'm grateful to them for giving me an opporunity I otherwise wouldn't have had.

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mholen

15 years ago

Originally Posted by CreativesLinda

Just because a network uses the HasOffers platform doesn't mean it's a bad affiliate network. It would be a bad affiliate network no matter which platform they used, and there are many of those using platforms other than HasOffers. We've used HasOffers at Campaign Creatives for a year and a half now and, I'm sorry, but you won't find a more honest, trustworthy affiliate network out there. Every affiliate gets paid for every single legitimate lead every time. If we get credit and paid for a lead, they get credit and paid for a lead. The costs of other scripts are so prohibitive that good, honest people didn't even have a chance before to pursue this side of affiliate marketing. While the HasOffers platform isn't the most user friendly, I'm grateful to them for giving me an opporunity I otherwise wouldn't have had.

@CreativesLinda - Hey it seems you know HasOffers really well--much better than their customer support.

So I'd like to ask you, if I'm creating my own affiliate network with HasOffers, but promoting Clickbank and other CPA products, how can I track conversions? Won't there need to be some code on the advertiser's conversion page?

I realize that Clickbank can track it, but I want my HasOffers affiliates to be able to see their stats.

Please let me know, it would REALLY help me out. Thank you!

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CreativesLinda

15 years ago

Originally Posted by mholen

@CreativesLinda - Hey it seems you know HasOffers really well--much better than their customer support.

So I'd like to ask you, if I'm creating my own affiliate network with HasOffers, but promoting Clickbank and other CPA products, how can I track conversions? Won't there need to be some code on the advertiser's conversion page?

I realize that Clickbank can track it, but I want my HasOffers affiliates to be able to see their stats.

Please let me know, it would REALLY help me out. Thank you!

What you need to do is check with Clickbank or any other network or advertiser you use for offers and find out what method they use for automatic postback, if they have that option available. For some, you can give them a global postback URL and that will work for every single offer you get from them. You give them one link and that's it. Any conversions will track back to your network and your affiliates can see them in their stats when they log into their accounts. And you can see them, too, in your reports without having to do anything.

For others, they use a 3rd party tracking pixel. A pixel for each offer you use has to be given to the network or advertiser providing the offer. They'll place it for you within the code of the offer on their side so that it'll fire every time a credited lead is generated and will automatically post back to your network.

You have to remember to set up the offer on your network so it matches the type of postback being used - HTTP iFrame, Server Postback with Transaction ID, etc. Your AM at Clickbank or any other network/advertiser will tell you which one you need to use.

If neither one of those options are available for automatic postback, then you'll have to look at your conversion reports on the network or advertiser's site and manually upload the conversions on your network. That way they'll show in your reports and your affiliates' reports.

Hope that helps!

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mtmjohn 15 years ago

Originally Posted by manzippo

Hasoffer cost you little to start on. But most of us know Hasoffers always stands for bad affiliate network.

I dont think so. There still have a lot of good networks using hasoffers in the market.
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guilcoelho

15 years ago

Starting an affiliate network is quite a task. Being up to date for me is the most important part. You have to be on point with everything (know your offers,publishers traffic,advertiser terms) I agree with italeads networking is definitely important.

And if you are interested in starting your own network you cant go wrong with tyler! I know this from personal experience! =)

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convert2seo

15 years ago

the tracking platform alone doesn't characterize a network in full. I think the most important thing is the relationship with the affiliates. It's best to start with a core of friends, people you know and grow around them

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Jeremy_AM

15 years ago

First you have to ask yourself what your competitive advantage is going to be. Starting yet another HasOffers network that claims to have the highest payouts ever isn't going to cut it, because you're that's infinitely played out. What's going to make you stand out?

Before starting a network you need to seriously analyze your plans. If you need to ask how tracking works or how much capital you need, or other basic questions, you either aren't ready or haven't given things enough thought.

Just my two cents.

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Cash37

15 years ago

Tips to those that want to stand out:

Free banner/LP customization

Weekly calls

Ad network discounts

Sponsored trips to affiliate summit & other conferences

Discount or free use of seo tools (could be hosted on a vps)

Private affiliate meetups/trips I think Epic does this

Bi weekly payouts

Internal content creators/article writing

New offers. Instead of the same old plain dating offers, run some niched versions like Jewish, BBW, Asian, Indian etc

Random giveaways - maxbounty and peerfly do this though I never won

Option to get paid via amazon giftcard, best buy card, etc

Insurance- if I do x amount of leads a hour and your server goes down for a hour I still get paid

Free uptime monitoring for LPs

Hosting discounts

Hosting deal with preinstalled 202

Thats just a start

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cad60k

12 years ago

Just a quick one if anyone is still following this post. I was interested in managing my own affiliate network.
A company has approached me to run there affiliate side of there business. The affiliates would be very exclusive to that market so I won't be hunting down thousands of affiliates to market the product.

The most important factor for me would be the Affiliate tracking Software. Can anyone advise what worked the best for them to manage there affiliate network.

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Steven Sauve

12 years ago

The facepalm is strong in this one. *sigh*

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