PayDotCom Review

There's a lot of money to be made online, if you know what you're doing. Internet marketers understand that the key to financial success is to enlist affiliates to promote their products and services. Fortunately, there are several online marketplaces that are geared toward bringing both internet marketers and affiliates together.

Arguably, Clickbank has been the most popular online marketplace to this point. Now, however, Clickbank is facing steep competition from Pay Dot Com.

Even those who swear by Clickbank must admit that Pay Dot Com offers some very attractive features. For example, Pay Dot Com is integrated with PayPal. That means anytime you sell a product, payment is immediately deposited into your PayPal account whereas with Clickbank you have to wait for your check to arrive in the mail.

For both affiliates and product creators this is a no-brainer.

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Commission Junction Review

Commission Junction offers thousands of premium affiliate products for sale. It is very expensive for merchants to use Commission Junction, so only large, well-developed businesses tend to use the service.
For affiliate marketers, this means the products are generally of high quality and easier to sell.
On the other hand, these are not digital products, but usually physical goods that need to be packaged and delivered. Moreover, 'big' businesses tend to have smaller profit margins per product sale, instead relying on a high sales volume to make an overall high profit. What this means for affiliates is low commissions per sale.
Commission Junction offers what is called 'smart zones' which allow affiliates to set up rotating product banners on their sites. It is an easy way to make money, and this can add advertising graphics that complement textual ads offered by other services such as Google Adsense.
Commission Junction aggregates affiliate sales from all merchants and pays the affiliate with one check. No more needing a $100 minimum in sales for a merchant to get paid by that merchant. An affiliate can have $10 in commissions from a dozen merchants and receive a check from Commission Junction. Instead of a check, affiliates can also request to be paid by direct deposit directly into their bank account.
Affiliate signups are automatic at for some Commission Junction merchants, but not all. This means an affiliate will not necessarily be approved by all merchants and be able to sell their products. Some merchants check the affiliate's website(s) registered with Commission Junction to make sure they are appropriate for selling the merchant's wares. This is a quality control check.
If you are looking for a wide range of quality products to sell, Commission Junction is a must have account for any serious affiliate marketer.

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Clickbank Review

ClickBank is the very best credit card processing and affiliate marketing system around.
They basically allow just about anyone to sell products and services over the internet. You don't need a merchant account to accept credit cards online.
ClickBank offer a built-in affiliate marketing system whereby you can recruit new affiliates from their network of 100,000 affiliates.
They also allow you to add up to 10,000 digital products and services offered by other ClickBank merchants to your product line.
Add it all up and you can see why ClickBank is so unique. If you're looking to sell digital product, and don't want to go through all the hassles of getting a merchant account, I highly recommend using ClickBank.

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Click2Sell Review

Click2Sell is the new affiliate network in town, and it's taken some of the best features of ClickBank and PayDotCom, and gone to the next level.
It all started when I got an email from one of my subscribers who told me about Click2Sell and that I should check it out.
So I looked at their site and was impressed. Very clean and easy to navigate.
Affiliate information:

1. Up to 95% sales commissions
2. Accounts are completely free.
3. Multicurrency supported - Receive commissions in the currency of your choice, regardless of currency in which product is sold.
4. 6 month cookies - If a returning visitor (which was first referred by you) buys a product within 6 months - you get a Commission.
5. Merchant rating system: if a merchant fails to pay commissions within given timeframe, his/her rating is lowered. If there are still unpaid commissions he/she is banned from the system and is put on hall of shame so affiliates know which merchants are reliable. Click2Sell system ensures that all affiliates are paid.
6. Opportunity to earn 30% from referred member's fees paid to Click2Sell as long as they remain active.
7. Affiliates receive their commissions via Paypal or Moneybookers account.

Merchant information:

1. No set-up fee (Clickbank charges $49.95).
2. There is no product or sales-page approval period.
3. Merchants may set any price for their products.
4. Fees range from $1 to $3 US per sales transaction. Clickbank charges $1 US plus 7.5% of the purchase price.
5. Convenient affiliate payment system - takes only a few clicks.
6. Mass payment to affiliates function is available. Everything is done (by a few clicks) from the same merchant area (no need to login to Paypal and Upload txt files).
7. Merchants have complete affiliate tracking and control.
8. Merchants can set a custom commission rate for a specific affiliate.
9. Merchants may ban unwanted affiliates, approve affiliates automatically or manually, and can offer promotional tools for affiliates.
10. A merchant may choose the countries that he or she wants to sell to.
11. Set automatic product price increase or decrease.
12. Customize pre-made affiliate page, checkout page.
13. Encrypted product Download pages.
14. For added security, download links expire after 72 hours.
15. Merchants have 100% control over refunds of their products.

Statistics:

1. Select either a General or Daily reports of your sales.
2. See how many views, unique visitors and sales your sales-page got (by direct links or affiliate links).
3. You can create different tracking channels to test various advertising options.
4. Detailed transaction reports.
5. Track each product's performance in the Marketplace.
6. Track percentage of sales made by affiliates
7. Statistics of keywords (an user will know exactly what keywords are used in search engines by sales-page visitors).
8. Statistics of referrers (what websites are bringing the most targeted visitors to your sales-page).
9. Statistics about search engines (how many visitors and buyers are brought by each SE for every certain Keyword)

Support features include:

1. Help desk
2. User guides
3. Support forum
4. FAQ

As of the time of writing the Click2Sell listed 342 products, and those numbers are increasing at a steady pace as the marketplace becomes more popular with merchants and affiliate marketers.

When you look through the Click2Sell Marketplace, don't be swayed by the fact if some products display a 0 percent Conversion rates. The system is still fairly new, so it will take some time for an accurate picture to develop.

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