Tips for Becoming Affiliate Merchant

In affiliate marketing program, we earn money by selling others' products or services. Making money throught affiliate marketing program is divided into 3 steps:
Step 1: Sign up to become affiliate marchants.
Step 2: Conducting a campaign of merchant products in our website, by advertising, or by email using our affiliate link that we get in step 1.
Step 3: Making a lot of people see the campaign that we have done in step 2. We must try to bring many traffic or visitor.

If we want to get commissions from the affiliate marketing programs, we must learn first what is the requirements of that affiliate marketing program. So we are not choosing the wrong affiliate merchant and our chance to be received is great.

There are 2 types of affiliate programs (seen from management affiliate program):
1. In-house affiliate program
The company managing its owm management program affiliates
- We do the registration directly to the merchant. In merchant's website there are instructions and form to sign up become affiliate
- Amazon.com, eBay.com, Implix (company with famous product email autoresponder GetResponse) are examples of in-house affiliate program.

2. Affiliate Network
Companies have no their own management program. They do outsourching to the other companies to manage all aspects such as administrative, technical, tracking, and affiliate commisision payments.
- First we have to join the network affiliate to apply to become a affiliate merchant through the menu in affiliate network.
- Commission Junction, Linkshare, Shareasale, ClixGalore, TradeDoubler, double-click performics are examples of affiliate network.
- Clickbank, click2sell, paydotcom, nregnow are examples of affiliate network that focus on digital products such as ebook, software, and course.
- Hydra, Copeac, Azoogle, ClickBooth are affiliate network that specializes in Pay-Per-Lead (PPL)

There are two approaches in determining which merchant we want to promote:
1. We have already known what product or service we want to promote. So we find the best merchant or which merchant give good service, then sign up to become its affiliate.
- For example we want to become the affiliate of ipod accessories. Type at Google.com ipot accessories + affiliate program. Click search.

2. We haven't known what product or service want want to promote. So that's better if we join Affiliate network to seek for good merchant or product to promote.
- Almost all affiliate network requires us to enter our website address when register. This often becomes one of the criteria for accepting our registration.
_ When we register to Shareasale, we are asked to fill in our main website that should fill these criteria:
a. Using a top-level domains such as .com, .net, .info, .biz, etc
b. The website must use English language
c. The website have been ready to use, not underconstruction website.
d. Do not use free web hosting
e. If we use WHOIS protection in the name of our domain, we could remove the protection temporary so the affiliate network can know that the website is ours.

That some tips for becoming affiliate merchant. Hope this information is useful for you.

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