Have you seen this?

thegreatwarrior

Have you seen Michel's testimony on PayDotCom.com?

Ricky Breslin

thegreatwarrior, nice way to sneak in an affiliate link. I think he wants an unbiased review.

Anyways... We're starting our program soon and I did a lot of research before I went with JROX.COM Affiliate Manager - Complete Affiliate Marketing System. NOT AN AFFILIATE LINK, I'm just a happy customer. They have forums dedicated to customer support, great help database, etc. It installs on your own server and your good to go. I mean this thing is awesome.

Download the free trial and login. You'll be hooked.

thegreatwarrior · 02:08 AM

Affiliate Management:
Third Party or Self-Managed?
Somehting Think About...

While I can't speak for JROX.com (or, for that manner, PayDotCom.com, since I have yet to start my affiliate program), if I understand JROX.com properly, it's software that you download to manage your own affiliate program.

PayDotCom.com, on the other hand, is a third-party affiliate management system.

The reason I'm creating this post is to present a factor to consider when starting your own affiliate program, that is:

Third-Party, Or Manage-It-Yourself: It's An Issue Of Trust...vs Maximum Profit Margin

One of the very first Internet Marketing e-books I ever bought and printed was Stephen Pierce's The Whole Truth. I think I was in Alaska at that time.

Anyway, I remember Steve told us some stories of how he had been ripped off by some affiliate managers who ran their own affiliate programs. The affiliate managers essentially didn't pay Steve for the traffic and buyers he had driven to their sites.

Steve then promoted the presence of a third-party affiliate processor, such as Clickbank, as a way to ensure that affiliates get paid by the third party, which has a neutral interest.

But, You Can Have Both Trust And Maximum Profit Potential

I'm not implying that those who choose to manage their own affiliate programs are less trustworthy than those who use third parties--the smart thing about using your own affiliate program is that you don't have to pay a high percentage to the third party. And if you earn your affiliates' trust over time, then you're smart to go with your own self-managed affiliate program.

I hope this helps.

PS: In referring to my previous post (and to prevent any more misunderstanding), one needs to look at the first post in this thread: omamit asked Michel which affiliate managment software he thought was best. Since Michel's testimony is on the home page of PayDotCom.com, I thought it appropriate to have him see Michel's testimony, and have omamit review for himself.

Since I have not used any affiliate management software/service yet, I am not in a position to give any reviews.

Yes, that was an affiliate link of mine. I took the effort to point something out to someone, and hence, I deserve the credit.

PPS: Here's My Affiliate Link To PayDotCom.com

PPPS: But this is something about a thread that started in May, so let's not get too carried away.

Ricky Breslin

Why would you refer him to something you've never used? That's crazy and it makes you look bad.

You dug this thread up hoping to make a little commision. Just tell it like it is. We come to this board to get REAL answers from credible sources. You devalue the forum when you do this kind of stuff.

Ken_Calhoun

Ricky's right - let's not spam the forum with affiliate links, like "have you heard about (affiliate-linked answer to question).

They do that crap on other forums, not here. It's a quick way to get shown the front door outta here and "instantly lose credibility". I'd suggest deleting your posts and doing what Rick says. You look like a forum spammer. We don't like that around these parts. Go to the other IM forums for that bs. Not here. Thanks.

And since the initial "poster" was a zero-poster person named "onamit", I'd suspect that it's the old trick of, you registered two nicknames, used the first to ask a question, and the second to post an affiliate link. Doing an IP address check of both posters could confirm this. Don't do it here. This is a quality board, with seasoned forum vets like me, and we don't like affiliate forum spam crap here. Really. If it were my forum I'd delete you and block your IP address, like I have hundreds of times, on my other forums I've ran over the years.

Anyways, back to affiliate programs, the ones I'm researching (I need ones that are NOT for digital-only stuff, eg for selling my DVDs, which neither pdc nor cb can do) are:

-IMC's assoctrac
-commission junction
-shareasale

I'd be interested in hearing successes/warnings/alternates, for any of those or others.

Ken

Stephen Davies · **Re: Have you seen this? -** 02-10-2007, 08:19 AM

I moved this section of a thread into the Member Content area due to affiliate links.

This is the more appropriate thread for posting affiliate links. Also any affililate links or genuine offers must have decent content.

If you have any questions about how this should be done, please read the rules section of the board.

Thank you.

Ricky Breslin · **Re: Have you seen this? -** 02-10-2007, 02:17 PM

Ken, the affiliate program I talked about does this perfectly. It integrates with my cart, emails the affiliate automatically, etc. And it's a one time fee.

I know you like doing stuff on your own, so you really might like this.