Affiliate Programs for E-commerce

[deepman007]

Hi

I'm trying to sell products designed by myself online and I have my own website. What's the best way to get more traffics? My friend suggests to join Affiliate programs, Is it a good idea? Do I have to start my own affiliate program or use others, how does it work?

Thanks

[nirap]

Some shopping carts will have the affiliate program built in.

Other than that it can be good in the sense of incoming links.

[edited by: eljefe3 at 3:47 am (utc) on June 23, 2008]

[eljefe3]

If you want to have other people sell your products, then you should set up an affiliate program. You can either join a network which will have some fees involved, or you could run this in house provided you had some tech support. There are a lot of variables that will determine whether you can get affiliates to join, such as commissions, conversions, popularity of the product, affiliate support etc.

[deepman007]

Looks like I have to starting looking into it more