Commission Junction
Maximise Your Revenue-Making Opportunities By Using Commission Junction
Becoming an affiliate, otherwise known as a “publisher” and working with companies, or “advertisers”, like Dell, Overstock.com, Home Depot, JellyBelly, etc. and placing advertising for those companies on your website or blog can earn you easy money!
Commission Junction (CJ) is the largest of the Internet affiliate networks in North America but trades worldwide and offers opportunities for affiliate partners and merchants (publishers and advertisers in affiliate jargon) gain monetary rewards from that partnership. Commission Junction acts as the matchmaker, bringing the two together for the mutual benefit of earning sales for the merchant and commissions for the affiliate.
The way it works is that the affiliate (publisher) places ads for the merchant’s (advertiser) products or services on their website. They can use text links, product links, run an email campaign, use PPC or any other type of online or off-line marketing to send potential customers to the merchant’s site. The affiliate (publisher) is paid a commission by the merchant (advertiser) for referred visitors taking specific actions like subscribing to a service, filling in a form or survey or completing a purchase. The merchant then completes the transaction by providing the customer with the product or service. The affiliate does the “marketing legwork” but it’s the merchant who carries most of the risk - transaction/payment, holding stock, shipping the goods, etc.
While there are numerous companies acting as networks for affiliate marketing, Commission Junction attracts more people because it offers a huge array of products and companies to choose from. With over 880 companies, you are bound to find products and/or services that fit the needs of your target market.
Selling other people’s products on your website is really no different than selling your own anywhere else. Since the object of the exercise is to make money, you need to give your web site visitors reasons to trust you and the products you sell. Partnership with some of the companies (advertisers) Commission Junction have on their books can make that task much easier.
However, as the saying goes “content is king”, so offering solid content and good products together with first class marketing strategies and other services that CJ offers greatly improves your chances of success.
Selecting the companies and products you want to sell is a simple matter of choosing from among the wide selection available. Some selection criteria are:
• What products do you already know about or can research and learn about quickly?
• What products have the best conversion and sales rates currently?
• What products do you know enough about to write effectively about them?
• What products have you researched and know are selling well currently?
• What products have the best commission structure?
CJ has the added attraction of offering access to online educational resources like tutorials, affiliate strategies, examples in the form of case studies and sophisticated reporting tools, etc. thereby making the most of the time and effort you put into this venture. You can even take up their offer of a product feed that can be updated automatically reducing the amount of time you have to invest.
Joining Commission Junction is free and you can begin selling as soon as you’ve been approved for the products you choose to put on your website. There are no selling costs. The number, user name and password you’re given when signing up are used to sign up for the various affiliate programs you’re interested in. It’s then just a matter of copying, pasting and strategically locating throughout your website, the links to your merchants (advertisers) so that your customers can become engaged in the process. Use CJ’s in-depth tools to measure the effectiveness of your linking, marketing and keyword strategies.
All in all, if you have a website, a blog site or even a small personal website, you can start making money today with Commission Junction’s Affiliate Marketing Programs.
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Commission Junction Affiliate Program