dickbaker - 10:38 pm on Apr 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

To sell "Acme widget" t-shirts, I'd have to either get a licensing agreement with Acme to produce my own, or buy the t-shirts from Acme and resell them. Neither is a road I'd like to take.

Now for another dumb question. I followed eljefe3's advice, and went and signed up with CJ just to see what sorts of payouts there were for different niches. I still have a lot of searching to do.

Using the mortgage industry again as an example, I found that the numbers were indeed very high. For example, one advertiser offered anywhere from $20 to $110 for leads. However, I'm assuming that CJ takes the overwhelming majority of those dollars, correct?

Am I also correct in assuming that it would violate CJ's terms of service to approach an advertiser directly?

Here's something people here may find amusing. I've been trying to contact the marketing person for a company that I thought would be a very good fit for my existing site. Yesterday she finally emailed me back, and asked what I would charge for banner ads on the 1269 pages on my site.

I replied that we could either bill monthly, based upon 15 cents per click in that month, or figure out an annualized price based upon the rate of 15 cents per click in a free trial month.

She replied that they only pay 1 to 3 cents per click.

I guess their company name--"cheaper-than-anybody"--is appropriate. (That's not the real name, but you get the idea).