Commission Junction (www.cj.com)
The Commission Junction or also known as CJ is one of the largest and oldest affiliate networks of today still in business. They are the online advertising company which are owned by ValueClick and is also operating as an affiliate marketing industry. In North America, Commission Junction is the largest affiliate network and they run worldwide. They use 3rd party affiliate marketing software, and 62% is provided by CJ.
If you are interested in starting a business in affiliate marketing, Commission Junction is the place to start. Sign up as a publisher (which is actually free and easy to do). There are a wide selection of offers in their site. Hundreds of merchants and they provide various types of offers. Plus Pay-Per-Sale, Pay-Per-Lead and Pay-Per-Call offers. They are well established merchants with 500 companies connected to them.
They can provide you with statistics on how individual merchants are doing with Commission Junction. Anyone can use this as their advance forecast of which merchants to promote for their affiliate. There are many affiliate banners from every merchant and other marketing material which is hosted by CJ. You’ll also notice that each banner displays the same.
Each product link will take you to the respective products, although some merchants are not true on this. The direct link to the product is only effective for making affiliate sales and statistics performance.
When it comes to Commission Junction payment system, the commissions are paid by the website and not those merchants connected to them, which means that your paychecks are known and secured.
As with all programs there are some disadvantages, like the advertiser application process, where you must apply to each merchant and agree to their terms of service.
There is an issue on temporary advertiser deactivation this can happen when the billing process between CJ and the merchants have problems. Once your account is deactivated, you will not get any commission until it is lifted.
And because you need to agree on each merchant’s terms, there is lack of standardization which means that the commission comes differently from each merchant. You also need to know the latest terms, which could be confusing.
Tips To Earn More
- Choose the Popular advertisers: These are great ones with high quality products and services that you can choose from. However, it is a bit hard to get approved. Be patient and contact them directly if your application declined once.
- Choose advertisers with high network earning (7 days or 3 months ECP): This can be easily found within advertisers’ area. You can see how effective and potential this advertiser is. The more higher eCPM, the more earning you can make. You can also see rating for network performance too.
- Choose the advertisers with leads offer: If it is hard to generate sales, leads could be the best alternatives to boost your commission. You should find the advertisers with leads to promote and it is likely getting more leads than sales.
- Choose highlighted advertisers: There are many advertisers which are highlighted as featured ones on CJ. And of course, it is much difficult to get enrolled with these advertisers. The best way is to use high ranking blog in English and contact them directly. These advertiser strictly verify any applications like HostGator or Yahoo. But, the commissions and sales are very promising!
- Choose advertisers with coupons/discount codes: If you want to accelerate your sales, you should choose the best advertisers with coupons and discount codes. I made most of my sales from using the coupons. Do you like coupons? I guess “Yes” and your readers do too. So, take more time to get coupons and share with your readers, you will surely get more commission.
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