For whatever reason, not everyone seems to be able to make money using Commision Junction (CJ). CJ is an Internet based affiliate marketing site. They provide you with access to advertisers that come from well-established and reputable companies. What this means for you is that the products that you’re selling/advertising on your website are better known and are a better quality than what you might find with lesser known merchants.
If you’re frustrated because you don’t seem to be successful with CJ, there are some affiliate marketing tips that can help you. You need to stop letting your frustrations at the obstacles that occur when trying to be an affiliate marketer for a better-known company stop you from achieving your goals.
Many affiliate marketers use CJ to make money, and to make good money at that. The key is knowing what products to sell, which means you need to find the best sellers. This can be the most difficult part of the process, but with three easy tips, you can choose the best products to sell.
To begin, you need to understand that selling for affiliate marketing companies that have popular products means that they can be pickier about who they choose to be an affiliate marketer. When you use CJ, you have to apply to every individual vendor who has a product that you want to sell. This is different from other affiliate marketing sites that allow you to fill out one application and then give you access to every product for every merchant.
At minimum, you need to apply for 12 individual programs. If you don’t, you will not be accepted by any of the vendors, which completely shoots down the possibility of you having any success with CJ.
Here are the three best ways to find the best affiliate programs and products.
- Get new advertisers – When you use new advertisers, you’re more likely to find a company that is desperate to make money. This doesn’t mean the company isn’t going to be a moneymaker, but because they’re expanding into a new market, they’re more likely to take on new affiliate marketers with less experience. What’s more, without other competition stepping on your toes, you’re more likely to have a head start on getting a new product out than you would with an existing and well-established merchant.
- What are they about? – You need to understand what you’re getting into prior to deciding to be an affiliate for a particular merchant. You’ll want to choose a merchant with long cookie length, specific niches, and a great landing page that appeals to Google. This means that the landing page has quality content and contains links to other pages on their website and other quality content. Lastly, if they provide a performance incentive this is something you definitely want to take a second look at. For many people performance incentives can make all the difference when it comes to making money.
- Check their sales – if you choose an established company to affiliate market for you want to look at their sales track. There’s two sales tracks that you want to look at and that’s their seven-day mark and their three-month mark. On CJ you can look at the sales tracks and determine how well a merchants/advertisers products sell.
Before you apply to any merchant, you need to have a website already in place. Without this, advertisers are simply not going to consider you a viable affiliate marketer for their product. What’s more, in order to be successful on CJ, you need to already be successful in other affiliate marketing programs. If you haven’t, then you’re going to need to start creating a niche for yourself so that you can make yourself appealing to CJ advertisers. It’s worth the time and effort to do this because of the profit potential once you qualify as a CJ affiliate marketer.
Lastly, if your website is currently ranking, make sure that any potential advertiser knows that you’re in the middle of creating or implementing a SEO campaign. Many are willing to work with you if they know that you’re already preparing to increase your ranking to better benefit their product.