If you are an affiliate for reputable affiliate companies,
you will be able to make money online without needing to
worry about whether you are going to get paid by the
affiliate company. When dealing with reputable affiliate
companies you can also be assured the products you promote
will give high levels of customer satisfaction, thereby
ensuring you can earn a healthy level of commission.
Working with a reputable affiliate program will give you a
problem-free way to make money online. If, however, you
happen to pick an affiliate company which is less than 100%
reputable, your career as an affiliate could become far
from problem-free. I don't mean scam companies who set out
to cheat you out of your commission or who fool you into
promoting a worthless product. I mean the sort of company
that will fill your affiliate marketing career with petty
annoyances and waste your valuable time.
There are many reputable affiliate programs online. For
instance, I am an affiliate for the Plugin Profit Site,
SFI, Host4Profit, Clickbank, Commission Junction,
Share-a-Sale and several others. These companies all pay
me as soon as commissions are due. In fact, they are so
reliable, I became too complacent about my monthly receipts.
One day I suddenly realised that another affiliate company
I had been working for had never paid me even though I had
been making sales for them for a few months, and they owed
me getting on for $2000. I kicked myself for not keeping a
closer watch on my receipts and, after that, I made sure I
had a system to track outstanding commissions.
I thought I would probably have to write off the money I
was owed by this company but, I emailed the owner to ask
when I was going to get paid, and I was very lucky to
receive the full amount owed almost by return.
The next month, everyone paid me apart from that particular
affiliate company. This time two or three reminders were
needed before the payment was sent. The following month,
when I chased up payment, I was told a check had already
been posted out to me. The check didn't turn up, so I had
to wait while it was cancelled and a fresh check was cut
and posted out.
Now it might have been true that a check got lost in the
post, but that situation is one of the oldest stalling
tactics in the book, so naturally my suspicions were
aroused. It became pretty clear that I would have to chase
that affiliate company for commission payments every single
month. I could also see from my books that it was taking
longer each month to actually get the money they owed me.
I don't know what the problem was; maybe the company owner
was just disorganised but I did know that I didn't need
the extra work and hassle of having to chase them for
payment every single month. Although I liked the products
that affiliate company offered, I stopped working with
them. All the other reputable affiliate companies I work
with can manage to pay commissions on time without any
prompting, so it can't be terribly difficult.
When you are looking for products to promote, always check
out the affiliate company to see what other affiliates are
saying about it and avoid any where complaints seem genuine
and large in number. There are plenty of reputable
affiliate companies around, so you don't need to get
involved with scams or time-wasters.
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Elaine Currie helps people to make money online working at
home at her Free Work At Home Directory at
http://www.huntingvenus.com
If you want to find reputable affiliate programs check out
the affiliate program review:
http://www.huntingvenus.com/affiliateprogreview.html
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