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Start Your Own Affiliate Program

Run Your Own Affiliate Program

This is simply one of the best ways to promote your website. There is no better way to get other webmasters to advertise your site than to pay them for it.

The major advantage to an affiliate program of your own is you don't pay for the advertising untill you actually make a sale. Whether you sell memberships, information or physical products, if you are serious about making money you should be running an affiliate program.

We have two options for those of you wishing to run your own affiliate program.

1. Third party solution

Clix Galore. To start your own affiliate program with them all you need is $75 which goes to pay your affiliates when they refer a sale. Their terms are simply 25% of the commision. So for example if you pay your affiliates $1 per sale Clix Galore will take 25c. There are no monthly fees or account creation fees and Clix Galore provide all the tracking programs and deal with the affiliates. This is an excellent deal.

Clix Galore will also promote your affiliate program to their army of affiliates saving you even more work.

To start your own affiliate program or just to get more details Click Here

2. Your own affiliate program

There is an excellent script available from idev to run your own affiliate program right from your site. The software is $99, if you want us to install it for you that will be an extra £35/$65 as it does require considerable setting up.

The advantage to running your own program is that you do not have to pay any fees to a third party. While the initial layout is more than clix galore over time this is the cheapest option as you have nothing to pay for running your affiliate program.

Idev affiliate is totally automated, webmasters can join your program and get all the banners or links they need. When a sale is referred by them they will be emailed by the program and so will you.

Paying affiliates couldn't be easier from the admin section of Idev affiliate you can see easily which affiliates are owed comission, click a few buttons and the program takes you to paypal to pay them with the amounts and their paypal details already filled in for you.

For more details on Idev affiliate Click Here

Note: Just like promoting your site you will have to promote your affiliate program, just because you have an affiliate program does not mean other sites will flock to join it, they need to know about it first.

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