Help in Choosing Affiliate Programs

11 years ago

If you are paying to be an affiliate i suppose you are in a kind of mlm scheme... which can be very profitable ... but very hard to gain success... maybe it's better if you start with something easier... like membership sites affiliation ... you won't need to pay to be an affiliate and you can earn a passive income on the memberships you sell... just my 2 cents..

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PrestonSr

11 years ago

Originally Posted by enrikm

Right now I'm spending close to $150 monthly to be a member of affiliate programs.

My question is, should I be promoting affiliate programs that are less expensive until I start earning more per month?

These affiliate programs that I'm in though actually pay a lot of commission so hence my dilemma.

Appreciate your inputs!

Hello enrikm

I have one suggestion that doesn't require you to pay any dime inorder to promote them;
Clickbank

Hopefully I helped

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by enrikm

Right now I'm spending close to $150 monthly to be a member of affiliate programs.

I'm rather surprised to hear it.

I've never joined any affiliate program that requires payment.

I do know of one, and actually it's a good one, but it's in a niche in which I don't do business at all and have no subscriber-list, so I've never really looked at it very much.

Originally Posted by enrikm

My question is, should I be promoting affiliate programs that are less expensive until I start earning more per month?

I would think so, yes.

Almost all the ones I've ever heard of are free to join as affiliates.

It's an unusual system, to charge people money to become affiliates so that they can sell your stuff, isn't it? I'm not suggesting there's anything intrinsically wrong with it, but there are so many free ones?

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himanuzo

11 years ago

You should show what is the affiliate program which you talk, so warriors can help you to solve your problem.

I never hear that an affiliate program requires a certain amount of money from members. All affiliate programs are free to join.

I guess that you are in the MLM.

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by himanuzo

All affiliate programs are free to join.

This is incorrect.

There are some perfectly normal online affiliate marketing opportunities (i.e. not MLM at all) that charge affiliates either to register, and/or a monthly subscription. They tend to pay large commissions (the well-known one I'm thinking offers a 100% commission on the first purchase of any new customer introduced). It's a perfectly viable, legitimate and respectable business model.

However, it's unusual. And I certainly wouldn't have wanted those to be the only things I promoted, when I was starting.
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Chri5123

11 years ago

Originally Posted by enrikm

Right now I'm spending close to $150 monthly to be a member of affiliate programs.

My question is, should I be promoting affiliate programs that are less expensive until I start earning more per month?

These affiliate programs that I'm in though actually pay a lot of commission so hence my dilemma.

Appreciate your inputs!

Don't pay to be an affiliate! You are helping the publisher by growing their business as an affiliate.

Just to double check....

You are saying that you are paying to actually promote someone's product as an affiliate?

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Moneymaker2012

11 years ago

Hello,
How is this possible that any affiliate program is charging some fee from you.I think this an spam.

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Luis Vaugier

11 years ago

First time I hear about Multi Level Marketing, it may work, multilevel is good but ONLY if you enter to that system when it is recent, otherwise is not profitable and/or easy to do.

If you are starting I can recommend to you Clickbank as everybody can say.

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enrikm

11 years ago

Ok so maybe I'm confusing people with the term Affiliate Program. Not quite sure if this is one or this is an MLM.

But one program I am with is DotComSecretsX.

Anyone have any experience with this?

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by enrikm

Ok so maybe I'm confusing people with the term Affiliate Program. Not quite sure if this is one or this is an MLM.

It's actually a membership site/package. The fee you're paying them each month is for the coaching and training they're making available to you. (It's true that they also provide ready-made squeeze pages for members to promote the membership itself, so the confusion's understandable).

Originally Posted by enrikm

Anyone have any experience with this?

Not I, but there are many members of it here. Here's one thread to start you off: http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...-comments.html

By the way, you don't have to be a member of DotComSecretsX, to promote it: it's a ClickBank product - all you need is a hoplink, and those are free. (Personally I wouldn't dream of promoting it, because it comes nowhere even close to fulfilling my own basic, essential product selection criteria, but that's a different matter altogether.)
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hron

11 years ago

You should definitely go for promoting high-end offers that pay more commission.

It's the same work to promote a $37 products as promoting a $500 product, but the commissions is higher on the latter, therefore the chance of being in profit with that one is bigger.

Always go after the bigger commissions, make sence?

regards Hans

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Victor Edson

11 years ago

If you're making more than the $150 per month you're paying,
then it should be worth it.

If you're paying more than you're making though, I'd ditch it
and find another platform to work with.