- Your options for promoting these sellers are many. They all provide for basic direct links and banners, however, many have pre-built stores that you can set up with all their product in it. These you can run from your own domain name. Others even allow for database feeds which will display all the product right inside your own web pages allowing you to essentially run an entire store without ever dealing with the products or customers directly. So look into the seller’s options before signing up.
- % payout – Be sure to look carefully into things like percentage payout (average is between 10-%-20% but some are much higher.
- How are you paid? – Some programs will send you a check, others use direct deposit, still others use paypal or similar payout solutions. Decide how you wish to be paid and make sure that the programs you sign up for can accommodate that method.
- When are you paid? – Some programs pay monthly, other only quarterly and others by minimum flat rates. The most common method is to make a payment to you once per month IF your balance is over a set amount (usually around $100) otherwise the balance will rollover into the next month. So be sure to read the fine print. You don’t want to sign up for a program that won’t pay you until you reach $500 (because maybe you don’t do so well and never reach that amount, but you still want to get paid for the sales you did make).
- Keep up to date on your links. Some programs like to rotate their banners and text links and will “turn off” old ones. In those cases if you are running an old ad, you may not be receiving credit for the customers you send through the link. Good programs will inform you by email when they make these sorts of changes.
- NEVER sign up with a program that asks you to pay money or make any other concessions in order to join. They are scams. All legitimate programs are free. You are doing them the favor.
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