Choosing the right affiliate program/products...

[MrCat]

When you research on what affiliate programs to go for, always take into consideration the market you are targeting - as they are the ones who will make the conversion on your site. Also, always try to pick one that you you have knowledge on. Providing more than the product itself is a big plus - useful info, good advice and post sale customer support will give you more customers via referrals.

After that, it would also depend on how you market your product to the right market. This is also a factor to be greatly considered in determining your success. IMO, when you want to earn big, you should be ready to spend for it as well.

I always opt for PayPerClick to reach my target audience. Knowing how this system works would work to your advantage. Research (keywords), Selection(keywords and PPC provider), Implementation (bidding and start-up) and Analysis (which keywords worked best and cost vs. revenue).

How do you choose yours? And how do you market them? Share in guys and gals

[marketraisecorp]

As an affiliate, or even from the advertiser’s end, they all live and die by their stats. You know what I’m talking about too, so don’t even pretend to deny it. When your stats go up, you have a better day than if the stats are creeping at some low numbers. It’s all about stats it seems. Even for SEO’s and SEM’s, they want nothing but stats.Compiling data based on campaigns from a number of very helpful affiliates both big and small, is taxing to a certain extent.At first, poring over it wasn’t too bad, but being surrounded by numbers for so many hours at one shot can make anyone want to open up notepad and keep copy pasting.Damn freaking tiring and then keep posting those same articles in different forums, only 4 a sole reason... better search results on seo's.After getting thru this part you’ll basically be getting access to a list of data which might be xtrmly important yet common.This is coming straight in from more than 20 different affiliates of all types of calibers so that you, as an affiliate marketer, can make a wiser decision on which campaigns to run, and which not to run, and for which type of traffic too and from which network to use! Ahhhh so much data!but stale.Fine then, you get your damn blog update with useful, or somewhat useful news and information.

[Sherman C.]

Merchant should have just one payment processor...and takes care
of the affiliates