CJ.com was originally known as Commission Junction when the company launched in 1998. The affiliate marketing leader has grown from humble beginnings since the late 1990s, with a concentration in bringing online advertisers and publishers together to work amicably toward online money making solution goals. CJ, formerly known as commission Junction, is now known as CJ affiliate by conversant. Affiliates, also known as CJ affiliated publishers, join CJ affiliate by conversant for the purpose of making money from blogs, pay per click Google search campaigns, websites, Yahoo paid search campaigns, and YouTube channels through promotion of affiliate links, either directly promoted through YouTube channels, or promoted on blogs and websites through organic or paid search ( PPC ). Affiliate marketing continues to remain strong and here to stay, creating a steady stream of passive income for dedicated affiliate marketers to earn enough money to quit their day jobs and rely on promoting affiliate programs full-time as their digital nomad based side hustle.
Commission Junction-CJ affiliate by conversant publishers sometimes get rejected from niche based affiliate programs they apply to. It’s not that the affiliates aren’t good enough to qualify for the affiliate programs. However, there may be something that the CJ affiliate hasn’t done or is doing right that sends a virtual red flag to the advertiser to not approve the CJ publisher. One of the things that can suppress a CJ affiliate by conversant affiliated publisher from getting approved for an affiliate program they would normally qualify for with flying colors is not completely filling out their CJ affiliate publisher profile. Advertisers who select not to auto approve affiliates may sometimes take time out of their busy affiliate manager workdays to manually examine every affiliate publisher application one CJ before approving the commission Junction publisher into that particular affiliate program.
When an advertiser on CJ notices the affiliate left out information such as demographics about their website and the niche the blog or website or YouTube channel is about, the advertiser may feel discouraged from approving that affiliate into that particular affiliate program. As a result, the CJ affiliate publisher gets rejected, and probably has to wait 3 to 6 months before reapplying to that particular affiliate program. Good news is, the rejection gives the CJ he affiliated publisher some things to work on in terms of updating their CJ affiliate by conversant publisher profile, and adding as much relevant information as possible to look attractive to advertisers who promote affiliate programs on commission Junction-CJ affiliate by conversant.
Commission Junction blog about the new “CJ marketplace for publishers.” The CJ marketplace is specifically engineered to bring advertisers and publishers together for the purpose of forging deep online working relationships, and potentially getting to know one another personally in forging a sustainable and positive Internet-based working relationship. Affiliate marketing is more than getting approved for an affiliate program and promoting links on blogs, YouTube channels, websites, and multiple search engine pay per click campaigns across Bing.com, Google.com, Taboola.com, and YaHoO.com. When CJ affiliates take the time to update your CJ affiliate by conversant publisher profiles and make themselves noticeable in the CJ marketplace, it opens the publisher to a plethora of affiliate marketing opportunities unimagined.
CJ's Placement Marketplace allows affiliates to tap into a new affiliate marketing revenue stream. This stream of passive income from promoting affiliate programs through CJ paid placements allows affiliates to negotiate ad rates with CJ advertisers.the first official action steps CJ affiliates need to do in order to qualify and make themselves attractive in the CJ placement marketplace is after they’ve updated their CJ publisher profile, they need to upload a media kit with their virtual online business card. The virtual business card will potentially have a picture of their face along with name, e-mail address, blog or website URL, a link to their Facebook.com, Twitter.com, LinkedIn.com, YouTube.com, and Pinterest.com profiles. CJ advertisers will casually browse the publisher marketplace, taking into consideration affiliates who look like potential recruits into their affiliate programs, looking for specific things like completely filled out CJ affiliate profiles and complete information on uploaded media kits-virtual business cards.
Once CJ publishers are contacted by a specific advertiser, they can go forward in negotiating ad rates with that particular advertiser. A CJ publisher can negotiate how much they want to be paid by the advertiser, if they placed the advertisers’ advert in a certain position on their blog or website. CJ affiliates can also negotiate higher ad rates with advertisers from the CJ affiliate publisher marketplace through direct affiliate link promotions in YouTube video descriptions. Moreover, CJ affiliates can also negotiate higher ad rates from would-be advertisers from the marketplace by promoting the advertiser in a mobile. This means if you have a dedicated concentration as an affiliate marketer in writing web mobile applications, you’re in for a treat of earning a secure and steady stream of secondary passive income, by way of promoting an advertiser who agreed to pay you a higher ad rates by promoting their affiliate program through your web mobile application marketed to opted in mobile users. Advertisers from the CJ marketplace are also willing to negotiate high ad rates with affiliates who also effectively promote affiliate programs through e-Newsletters. And the good news is, the potential ad placement rate negotiated between the advertiser and affiliate is not only an additional stream of passive income, but it’s also considered passive income streams in addition to earning affiliate commissions from sales promoted from that affiliate link. This means passive income over top of passive income for dedicated CJ affiliates.
If you’re wondering as an affiliate of CJ where you can negotiate high ad rates with CJ advertisers on your blog or website, here’s a few ideas of where you can command a certain dollar amounts with advertisers from:
- Homepage
- Left sidebar
- Right sidebar
- Footer
- In article ad placement
- Upper flush right corner of article ad placement
- Lower flush right corner ad placement in article, blog post or webpage
- Affiliate link distribution through a permission based email newsletter
- Blog or website category pages “niche specific”
- Placement within web mobile apps
- Sponsored content on a blog post or webpage
- Direct promotion of affiliate link on social media “refer to advertiser guidelines for more information on correct affiliate link promotions”
- Placing a cloaked affiliate link in the header video description of every YouTube upload
The opportunities are almost endless.
To make yourself noticeable in the CJ publisher marketplace, simply upload a media kit-virtual business card to the CJ marketplace. If you’re already active as a publisher and looking for more passive income opportunities and ready to negotiate ad rates with advertisers, making yourself visible in the affiliate publisher CJ marketplace will complement your current passive income streams.
Submitting your media kit-CJ affiliate publisher placement is simple.All you need to do is to simply read this post on CJ.com. Then, follow the simple instructions on how to upload a placement into the marketplace.
The Truth About Affiliate Marketing
If you’re new to affiliate marketing and have no clue what it is, it’s the process of promoting products and services online as an affiliate through partnering with an online advertiser for the purpose of earning steady affiliate commissions. Many good working class people are using affiliate marketing today to generate healthy passive income streams, quit their day jobs, live full-time as digital nomads, and benefit from the status of being a side hustle millionaire. Long gone are the days of working a regular 9 to 5 job for an employer for 20 to 40 years and retiring with a healthy pension. Affiliate marketing is helping good everyday people generate steady passive income streams, with an added layer of financial cushion to the point of not worrying if they’ll have their job until the day they retire. Affiliate marketing is here to stay until the end of time. Millions of companies have joined the affiliate marketing industry in hopes of partnering with dedicated affiliate marketers-affiliate publishers in hopes of maximizing their online sales potential.
Affiliate marketing can be done virtually from anywhere. You can use a blog, website, YouTube channel, TikTok.com, Pinterest.com, Twitter.com, LinkedIn.com and Facebook.com to effectively promote affiliate links after viewing the online advertisers guidelines of permissible affiliate link promotion styles. Affiliate marketing can be achieved as a remote work based side hustle, potentially putting good working class people who resort to affiliate marketing as a secondary way of generating passive income in the driver's seat to possibly earn more money than their current or former employer.
Affiliate marketing is by far an honest and ideal way to not only do something you love and increase the probability of becoming a future side hustle millionaire, but it’s also an ideal way to entrepreneurially get revenge on your former employer who wronged you. Or from being dumped from a past relationship in no fault of your own. No one wants to know later down the road the one they rejected is the one that’s doing good without them. Affiliate marketing is the side hustle, freelance industry whereas it’ll allow you to financially bounce back better than ever, making your past adversaries more angry than ever.
CJ.com is a great place to sign up as a new publisher if you haven’t already delved into affiliate marketing. Signing up for a free publisher account takes less than 10 min.