Share A Sale Platform Questions (Merchant Side)

[feiman]

Ok, I've worked with the CJ, BeFree and Linkshare affiliate management tools and am testing the waters with Share A Sale. Questions I have for you guys:

1) How well known is Share A Sale by those who utilize affiliate programs for revenue generation?

2) Anyone have experience with them as a merchant?

I launched a program there a couple days ago and the sign-ups have been less than stellar. I'd really perfer to not use CJ or Linkshare due to their rediculous start up fees. Anyone have feedback on Share A Sale?

Thanks!

Mike

[kodaks]

I don't have much experience with SAS, but they basically only promote companies that are either not well known, or are failing.

[vibgyor79]

The quality and quantity of affiliates on ShareASale is lower than that of CJ/others. But the cost benefits of going with Shareasale are hard to ignore. If you are going with Shareasale -

- Make sure you manually approve the affiliates

- If you are running a pay per lead merchant offer, keep an eye on the quality of leads.

- Make sure you have a strategy to recruit new affiliates from outside the network.

Shareasale has a good reputation among affiliates though. You joining Shareasale might be seen as a positive move by many affiliates.

[feiman]

Thanks for the feedback. We're sort of looking at it from a low risk point of view, so if its a bust, the cost is low enough so it won't hurt. Will let you guys know how it goes, although I can already see there's going to be quite a bit more legwork in recruiting affiliates than with Linkshare/BeFree/CJ.

[Catalyst]

Many of the super affiliates prefer SAS over some of the other networks but they don't jump on programs unless they know you or really like your program or payout. It also takes some know how to get to the good ones on SAS. If you just sit back and don't do any pro-active recruiting the majority of affiliates that sign up with you on SAS are many times banner farms and paid to read email types. Really good affiliates are in there but they are busy top performers and it's harder to get their attention and loyalty unless you already have a relationship with them.

Linda