Commission Junction, now known as CJ Affiliate by Conversant proves itself times over to be a dedicated and successful affiliate marketing network leader. Since 1998, the company, based out of Santa Barbara, California, helps connect bloggers and website owners to quality online merchants. Their mission is to help advertisers and affiliate maintain positive online working relationships and increase web profit potential through creative online marketing ploys.
CJ Affiliate by Conversant is a financially stable affiliate network who pays hard-working affiliates who drive traffic and convert into sales healthy profits by promoting affiliate links on their blogs and websites. This method of making money on the World Wide Web for affiliate marketers and bloggers have in fact made many "Internet millionaires." This line of work is not for everyone.
Affiliate marketing is a wonderful way for people to supplement their income if unemployed or working a day job. Promoting affiliate programs by affiliating yourself with a financially stable and a reputable affiliate network ensures you will be paid. And, it also ensures you the virtual opportunity of working with be named merchants, building positive and long-lasting online working relationships with them, and most importantly, making money together on the Internet by being an affiliate. Finding certain affiliate programs to join as an affiliate can be challenging if you don't know if a specific merchant exists on that affiliate network.
If you haven't yet joined CJ Affiliate by Conversant as a publisher and looking to gain valuable experience in the growing world of online marketing, click here to apply as a publisher.
Today, American Express has the serve affiliate program available on CJ.com. Serve by American Express is a full service account that acts as a supplement to using a traditional debit card. Customers can purchase a card online through your affiliate link. After they do so, you earn an affiliate commission. Once the card is activated and ready to use, they can load funds onto the card 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Customers may also have funds directly deposited into the AMEX Serve card from their employer bi-weekly or weekly.
This affiliate program pays affiliates well. They start out with a commission structure of $15.00 per item, after the "consumer signs up and is approved for an account." A good thing about consumers owning the AMEX Serve is never worrying about getting hit with "overdraft fees and there are no activation fees or minimum monthly balance requirements," according to the AMEX Serve advertiser description on CJ. Displaying ads from American Express serve on your blog or website will increase your online credibility and long-term trust. That said, consider joining this affiliate program if you're looking to build serious income from affiliate marketing.
When logged in your CJ publisher control panel, you may also want to check out the American Express gift card and Bluebird programs. To locate them, simply type "American Express" in the search box by clicking the "Advertisers" tab, then select "Old Get Links."
Once approved as a GAP affiliate, you'll start out with a basic affiliate commission structure earning 4% for sales generated through your unique GAP affiliate link. The GAP affiliate link cookie "as long as people don't clear their desktop PC or laptop web browser cache" lasts 45 days. What does that mean? Let's say for instance they click on a GAP ad on your blog or website. The GAP affiliate tracking cookie is automatically placed on their computer. They browse the GAP website and may possibly consider purchasing something at the moment. They change their mind and decide against buying anything from the GAP website that day. Gap has been around virtually forever and it's good money especially for side hustle bloggers who have niche based fashion blogs.
Your GAP affiliate cookie stays on their PC for 44 days afterwards, meaning if they go back to the website later and purchase something, you still earn the commission from that sale, simply off of the strength of them clicking your GAP affiliate link days ago. Even if they manually go to their Google Chrome or internet explorer web browser and manually type in GAP.com and buy something, as long as your affiliate tracking cookie is still on their computer, you'll earn the commish. This is only part of the beauty of affiliate marketing.
GAP also has a product feed for marketers if that may possibly help earn affiliate commission faster.
Hilton.com has a wonderful affiliate program for internet marketers from all walks of life to apply for and market on the CJ Affiliate network. They have over 3,700 + hotels located in 84 countries, and a proven track record of amazing financial stability. Hilton is also the parent company of Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, DoubleTree by Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton by Hilton, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton, Embassy Suites Hotels and Hilton Grand Vacations.
When you join and receive affiliate approval to market the Hilton hotel ads, you'll start out with a hearty commission structure of 4%. To qualify for Hilton affiliate commissions, the consumer must purchase a hotel reservation and "complete their stay" before you earn your "Hilton affiliate commission." Another words, you won't earn a commission right away after the online consumer purchases a hotel reservation from your "Hilton affiliate link." After they check out of the hotel, that's when "Hilton affiliate commissions" will post to your CJ Affiliate by Conversant publisher account. The Hilton affiliate program is solid and pays hard working Hilton affiliates well, possibly including bonus "consult with Hilton CJ dedicated affiliate manager to learn more."
Starting commission for Old Navy affiliates at the time of this post is 4% on all sales.
Old Navy serves a diverse audience, providing much opportunity for affiliates to earn nice commissions by promoting the Old Navy affiliate program. Once approved, ads are easy to install into the HTML template of any blog or website. Site visitors will then be able to easily purchase Old Navy products from your site while you earn commissions from your Old Navy affiliate links. This company is highly recommended if you plan on being one of the top earners in the CJ affiliate network.
Zappos, owner of 6pm.com, has an 8% affiliate payout structure for current Zappos customers who consistently purchase from your affiliate link. or new Zappos customers who buy stuff through your affiliate link, you'll earn 18% of the total sale in "Zappos affiliate commissions." The beauty of earning 18 percent in "Zappos affiliate commission" is it can be earned by someone buying stuff from your Zappos affiliate link off of their desktop PC, laptop, or even buying something using their cell phone for the first time. As long as they are a first time customer and purchasing through your ZAL, you'll earn 18%. That's pretty good commish. If they are an existing customer and purchase from Zappos through your affiliate link on their cell phone, you earn 8%, which is still good "Zappos commissions." Zappos also has random clearance sales, so that'll be your unique opportunity to run instant social media marketing promotions on Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and discuss in YouTube videos with an affiliate link included for quick "Zappos affiliate commissions."
This affiliate program is not easy to be accepted. If they approve you, you have to promote your Zappos affiliate links like there's no tomorrow.
Now that you know this information, how do you plan on putting it to work and building an online business from scratch? You have no excuses not to get in affiliate marketing. This line of work is not for procrastinators or stock flops.
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