My in-house affiliate program is providing $25 EPC and need new software to scale ASAP!

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My company's affiliate program is growing quite fast. It's an in-house affiliate program for our marketplace of 50+ trading and investing products. The products are what we call "user-generated" because our platform allows for experts to come on and build their own education courses, trading strategies, etc. and then sell them on our marketplace. At the moment it's still private invite to build a course so we can hit critical mass of quality products.

We already have several thousand users who have bought or subscribed to a product and we've reached over 25,000 people with our education webinars.

I've built up a great in-house affiliate program and I'm at the point where I need a more reliable and robust system to run the entire program. With an EPC well above $25 and a recent investment from a venture capital company, I need to make sure whatever I switch to is the right decision. With the momentum we have, I can't afford to have to switch again.

I'm looking at HasOffers, DirectTrack, and a couple others to run the program on.

Does anyone have any experience running their affiliate program with one of these providers?

Does anyone have any experience being an affiliate for a company that uses one?

Any feedback would be HUGE!!
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  • Profile picture of the author OnlineStoreHelp
    Originally Posted by kendubyou View Post

    My company's affiliate program is growing quite fast. It's an in-house affiliate program for our marketplace of 50+ trading and investing products. The products are what we call "user-generated" because our platform allows for experts to come on and build their own education courses, trading strategies, etc. and then sell them on our marketplace. At the moment it's still private invite to build a course so we can hit critical mass of quality products.

    We already have several thousand users who have bought or subscribed to a product and we've reached over 25,000 people with our education webinars.

    I've built up a great in-house affiliate program and I'm at the point where I need a more reliable and robust system to run the entire program. With an EPC well above $25 and a recent investment from a venture capital company, I need to make sure whatever I switch to is the right decision. With the momentum we have, I can't afford to have to switch again.

    I'm looking at HasOffers, DirectTrack, and a couple others to run the program on.

    Does anyone have any experience running their affiliate program with one of these providers?

    Does anyone have any experience being an affiliate for a company that uses one?

    Any feedback would be HUGE!!
    Can I ask a simple question? Any reason you would not use a Commission Junction, Share-a-sale, Linkshare or Avant Link? They are designed to handle high volume programs, in fact until they brought it in house, eBay used Commission Junction to run their affiliate program.
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    • Profile picture of the author kendubyou
      Originally Posted by OnlineStoreHelp View Post

      Can I ask a simple question? Any reason you would not use a Commission Junction, Share-a-sale, Linkshare or Avant Link? They are designed to handle high volume programs, in fact until they brought it in house, eBay used Commission Junction to run their affiliate program.
      We require an in-house system for several reasons:

      1. Our products packages/price points/offers can change as often as weekly sometimes

      2. We run live online events that our affiliate partners send traffic to. Our webinars are different every time because they cover what is going on in the stock market on a daily or weekly basis.

      3. We have direct relationships with 75+ affiliate partners

      4. Development reasons make it easy for us to run our API through our own in-house system.

      5. We already run an in-house system and it works great we just need a higher quality system/software to handle our demands

      Once we switch over to the new system and get things in place, we will also have some of our products up on those affiliate networks too.

      Any experience using a system like HasOffers?
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  • Profile picture of the author stuzilla
    I've heard good things about hasoffers.

    Do you run marketfy?
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    • Profile picture of the author kendubyou
      Originally Posted by stuzilla View Post

      I've heard good things about hasoffers.

      Do you run marketfy?
      Mayyybeee, haha. I'll PM you!
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