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Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
there are tons of 3rd party programs out there depending on your needs:
I personally use Directrack they do everything I want including:
per click
per sale
per lead
hosting my creatives
and if I want they will even pay my affiliates.
Its totally customizable.
I'm not sure how informed you are in the whole affiliate scheme, but if you're doing a per sale deal, most sites work with cookies that are set through a url variable. Once the user hits your site, you send the cookie to the browser, and when a sale takes place, you see if there's a cookie in order to properly credit the affiliate.
Whatever you may end up doing, a couple of things to keep in mind:
1) have competitive rates for your affiliates
2) always pay on time. Nothing gives worse vibe and mistrust than a company that can't cut a check when they have to.
3) have good landing pages - I bring this one up because one merchant I just signed up with has the most horrible product/landing pages ever, and I cringe to think how confused any potential buyers will be upon getting there.
Third, consider going the way of CJ or similar companies. An affiliate program will take up a lot of time and probably require a dedicated employee to handle all the inquiries and signups and financial transactions. CJ handles most of it for a reasonably low fee.
