Affiliate Program Advice - Self Managed Affiliate Program vs Clickbank

as an affiliate I prefer clickbank because I know they always pay me and I can get my links instantly instead of filling out your enrollment form and waiting for approval and guessing I'm gonna get paid.

Thanks for your input. It's reminded me to think like an affiliate when setting this up and top of the list is always - am I guaranteed payment, and Clickbank offers that guarantee!

Thanks again.

Lesley,

As an option, the Rapid Action Profits script gives you sales processing (through PayPal) and affiliate management all in one place, which you control. As for the affiliates, the rotation of full sales, depending on your payout % is paid directly to the affiliates.

Plus, you manage your affiliates for notification of other products you add and can do special promotions directly to them.

Worth checking out:

Rapid Action Profits

Plus RAP now has it's own marketplace for vendors and affiliates:

RAP Bank*Instant Commissions Vault

Worth checking out.

Thanks,

John

Clickbank, hands down.

Do remember Clickbank has 100,000 Affiliate promoting their product.

Back several years ago when I first started online marketing, I made a crappy workout page (I didn't know how to create websites), and within 1 month I had 7 Affiliates, and I was doing NOTHING.

Now imagine if you have a decent looking website that converts well!

I'd be remiss if I didn't chime in here, I think. This is only my advice and how I tend to look at things; this is no slight on anyone else's tactics.

As a business owner, I think its best to use both scenarios because both have their pros and cons. IMHO it depends on what product you're dealing with and your marketing plan for that product; which filters off into the sales funnel you've planned out for that product.

The what product comes into play whereas if you're looking to build up a following; (I'm talking strictly Affiliates, here); then CB would be the better choice, because the Affiliates are already there. You just have to figure out how to attract them to your product. There's plenty of literature on-site to help you achieve this goal; which is another perk of CB.

CB also takes the headache out of having to track and pay your Affiliates; like should you have a rash of sales for a particular product. I haven't delved into CB enough to know exactly how they handle the 1099 situation, but it would seem logical to me that they'd be the ones handling that as well since they're the ones actually collecting funds and paying not only your Affiliates, but you as well.

Now, the sales funnel thing comes into play if you're wanting to lead your Customers down a specific path. CB just recently initiated an upsell feature into their sales process; but you have to qualify to be able to utilize it. Now, that to me is limiting and I can't stand it when a company I'm using as a tool attempts to limit the way I choose to run my business, (but that's opinion).

The fact is, unless you incorporate some heavy duty programming.. you're not gonna be able to do too much creative selling by using CB; which then leads you back to your own Affiliate situation.

ProductCreator brings up another valid point.

Well, that's about as far as I'm gonna go with this here. I'm sure there are other Warriors still to chime in with their thoughts, as well.

Good luck on your release!
HTH
PLP,
tecHead

Go for Clickbank.

Remember that if you tend to have huge amounts of sales, with a self managed products you would still have to pay some taxes to the IRS.

ClickBank is a good choice when you are getting started with your products. If you intend to market multiple products, then I suggest you consider the EasyClickMate script. You can learn more about it by clicking on the link in my signature.