Hi Readers, I got a few email asking about other affiliate programs you can make money with…well here you go

PayDotCom

Many affiliate marketing programs pay in a check that will be issued in about 30 days after you have earned your actual money.  This means having to wait a month to get paid and then another additional week for a check to clear your bank, and could include additional fees depending on what bank you use and where the check comes from.  This is where PayDotCom has changed the way affiliate marketing is done.

Not only does PayDotCom have the tools to keep track of your marketing sales and see your progress, but they also have the ability to manage your affiliations.  Now that electronic and internet based pay formats are available, this is where PayDotCom comes in with their integrated PayPal system.  So now not only can you be paid by using PayPal, but a publisher can pay affiliates by using PayPal as well.

The program is simple to use and provides numerous affiliations.  You have to take into consideration you are spending dramatically less money than if you were writing your checks, paying for postage, and not to mention large cashing and processing fees.  This is also made simple because you can pay everyone you need and at the same time receive payment instantly.

PayDotCom also offers you to be able to build a subscription which is something that most affiliate marketing programs are not available with.  For people who are just starting out, being able to get your cash instantly from all the hard work you’ve poured in, this is definitely a great benefit, along with being able to check your marketing strategies on what is working, and what is not.

There are several different programs you could join.  For the majority you can join as many as you want, giving you the option to market different types of products from different companies.  Let’s be honest with ourselves, the entire purpose in maintaining an online marketing business is to run it with the least amount of pain in the “you know what,” the least overhead, and to maximize the profits you make.

So let’s look at this in whole, by PayDotCom providing payment through PayPal your money can be transferred directly to your bank account with reasonable, and in most cases, cheaper than processing a check.  Let’s not B.S. ourselves, we would much rather get our money today than wait a month, right?  PayDotCom can not only help lower your costs, but help reduce the everyday hassles involved.

PayDotCom, like Clickbank, is free, quick, and easy to sign up for.  Within minutes you’ll be on your way to making great affiliate relationships with the convenience and ease that PayDotCom offers.

Commission Junction

The Commission Junction is considerably the best return for your effort and with little demand of your time.  This sets true in the fact that you want to run a business, not a business run you.  Am I right?  We are assuming that you want to kick back on that beach that we talked about earlier, right?

Like many programs, it is also free except the time you spend signing up.  Once again you simply pick a product, recommend the product, and send your visitors to the site for purchase.  Then you are paid a commission, pretty cut and dry, huh?  Amazon.com is known for being the first business on the web to develop this affiliate marketing strategy and now all major companies have followed suit.

As with the other affiliate programs we have mentioned earlier, Commission Junction will give you an affiliate number, and a special link for linking to your affiliate’s website.  Not only will this link send your visitors to the affiliate site, but at the same time it will tell the affiliate that you referred the visitor.  This making it concrete and fool proof that you receive commissions on the sale.

Affiliate program providers (APP’s) are companies handling accounting and acting as a coordinator between affiliates and companies represented by them.  Commission Junction is a major site that handles affiliate accounting.  It also handles eBay and others.  Keeping in mind, the major site for digital products is Clickbank.  Other sites include BeFree, Linkshare, and Performics.

Having said that, Commission Junction is the largest APP Company and handles many top notch companies.  To get a real insight on what is available to you, simply head over to Commission Junction and sign up and research for affiliates there.  There you can explore who the companies are and the commission rate of each.  Also joining the program gives you the convenience without having to go to each company and apply.

A good suggestion we could give would be to join Commission Junction, where you can research companies they represent.  Pick out a few that you feel may be best for you, but don’t join them yet.  We would suggest you do as we do, and ALWAYS go to Google and research that companies’ website.  See if they sell themselves well and will support the efforts in sales you are trying to expend in regard to their products and/or services.  In addition, from Commission Junction you can link right to the landing page in the companies’ website.  There you can do a little more research and see if the product has been selling well. This will help you know if a product is booming, or if it’s just another grain of sand on that beach, as we refer to.

Click2Sell

Click2Sell is a great iron clad system that enables you to sell your products easily.  They also provide with a solution to running affiliate programs and recruiting new affiliates for your growing business.  They also accept payments directly, and immediately into payment processor accounts.

This program provides you with a vigorous and wide-ranging affiliate network to make selling your products a breeze.  Not only can you sell digital products, but you also have the option of selling material and subscription base products as well.  With a flexible payment processing accounts like PayPal, Authorize NET, Moneybookers, and Google Checkout, along with several others using which you can use to receive payments immediately from customers all around the globe.

Like many others this great system stops those endless days of waiting for your money, because everything is instant and online.  Click2Sell also enables payments in various currency formats like US dollar, Euro, and the British pound for example.  At this site you can become a merchant, start an affiliate program with your product, and start recruiting your army of affiliates.   This easy to use, complete and non-technical interface will have you on your way to making cash, hand over fist.

The affiliate perks lies within making as much as 95% on all the sales commissions that occur at the site.  You can select as many products as you would like and start referring them.  The commissions are automatic with no delays in receiving payments. Payments go through PayPal or Moneybookers accounts.  Click2Sell also has a merchant rating system which keeps you informed on who has got great products and can be trusted.   The commissions to affiliates are paid in a fast manner, protecting the best interest of the affiliates.

Click2Sell also has an enhanced tracking and reporting mechanism analyzing the performance of your Pay Per Click campaigns and other forms of advertising.  You can also check your performance of your affiliates, check your daily process on your sales, evaluate keywords that hop up your sales conversions, and send traffic to your site with Pay Per Click campaigns.  This is an easy way to sell your digital, material, or subscription based products and a great place for merchants and affiliates alike.

Plimus

For those of you who cannot use Clickbank, the alternative is Plimus.  In many ways Plimus is just like its competitor, Clickbank.  There is no 60 day hold on getting paid on new accounts, and sign up is free and easy.

Plimus is one of the best ways to sell your digital products online today.  This company also doesn’t force you to offer download insurance and shareware special offers as many others do.  Another great benefit to using Plimus is for the first half a dozen orders everything is verified by phone.  Sure this is a slight hassle, but in the end everyone is protected, for the best of interest.

Another point to make about Plimus would be their wide area of customization you can do, also giving you the option of making the purchase page look like part of your website.  HTML can also be edited on checkout pages.

While at the same time your options of customization are widespread, setting up your customizations can be quite tricky and a pain in the wazoo.  There are plenty of great video tutorials to help you along the way.  The extensive customization setup may be a timely task, but in the long run it’s well worth the extra time.

For the affiliate side of things, once your setup, Plimus has thousands, among thousands of state of the art digital sales lines to choose from.  They have great setup links, along with reporting features and a vast product catalog for affiliates.

One of the features also offered is Google Analytic Tracking.  This allows you to be able to track statistics on your BuyNow sales pages.  You can also create coupons and communicate during the sales process with customers, along with having the option to create newsletters.  With customized order emails you can set up your mail to be sent to your customers after they’ve purchased on the BuyNow pages.

With main and sub categories, keywords for the affiliates to search for specific products, and filtering options to see the hottest products on the market, is one of many great offers you can find when signing up with Plimus.

With over 5,000 merchants to choose from, and like mentioned previously thousands and thousands of products to choose from, Plimus is a good option to consider for your affiliate path in digital products.

Plimus not only is a dependable asset for large business types, but also for even the smallest businesses involved in affiliate marketing today.

That is a small list of online affiliate programs!