A separate login for Marketers and Affiliates is also essential. The Merchant’s Login will direct them to a page that is more guided at the creation of their post for the Marketplace whereas the affiliate’s login is more created to keep information.
CJ Affiliate: https://www.cj.com/#
Clickbank: https://accounts.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm (marketplace)
Clickbank: https://www.clickbank.com/
ShareASale: http://www.shareasale.com/
Rakuten: https://rakutenmarketing.com/affiliate
The initial goal is to have a fully functional website where Companies/ Merchants can sign up for the service, create their own post advertising their company and the product they want to sell, and then upload that post so that affiliate marketers can then offer to promote and attempt to sell the good/ service. Most affiliate marketing websites provide a specialized link sent from the merchant to each affiliate once both parties agree to work for each other. Affiliates then offer that link to clients. That link then takes the client to the product and through that gives proof to the merchant that the affiliate has created the sale. (I feel there must be a simpler way to do this and if you have any better ideas feel free to share them with me). From there merchants are to pay the commission percentage they owe to the affiliates, too my firm where we will take a small handling/ processing fee. Again most firms typically pay the affiliates at the end of each month but i’d like to try have affiliates paid every week to create that as a selling point over the competition.
The site must consist of a ‘homepage’ whose main focus will be to advertise the site’s purpose and essentially sell it to users. It must also have a distinct sign-up section, very similar to what you’ll see in the pictures below or on “CJ Affiliate.”
It must also have a ‘Marketplace’ where all of the merchant’s Goods/ Services are listed and split into categories.
A separate login for Marketers and Affiliates is also essential. The Merchant’s Login will direct them to a page that is more guided at the creation of their post for the Marketplace whereas the affiliate’s login is more created to keep information.
At a later date more pages could be added to help sell/ promote the service with more information. This is what sites jam onto their homepage but i see it as something that just distracts potential clients from signing up and is better offered on another page.
The biggest issue I have found with affiliate marketing companies is that they make it a very exclusive thing to sign up for, with things such as linking a social media account to show you have a large following or asking that you have a website already created. I don’t believe in this and want to have the most accessible Affiliate firm available as I think it should be something everyone can try.
Another issue is overcrowding and having to much writing, as I find it is easy so easy to get lost in it all and or become not interested, so having a homepage that focuses on just having clients sign up even without a full understanding of the site is a much better way to gain affiliates for the website. Examples of overcrowding are ShareASale and Rakuten.
This refers to Page 2 with the pictures from CJ Affiliate
This is the homepage of the website. I like the modern style CJ Affiliate as some of the other sites have a very old and outdated look. As I want to continue to push not only my affiliate marketing firm into the future but also affiliate marketing itself and I believe a modern look is a good step towards that. I also like the simplicity of this style, as something easy to use and understand is important.
*This refers to Page 3 with the Clickbank Marketplace*
This is the sort of marketplace layout I want to strive for however this one from Clickbank looks too dated, boring, and old.
The company will create a profit by handling/ being the middleman in the transaction of commission payment from marketers to Affiliates. A handling fee for dealing with that money.
Eventually, a joining fee will be charged too Marketers and maybe even a monthly membership fee, but to create a name for the company in its early days it is best to almost give our service away and if the service is to a high enough level then people will be happy to pay us.
Currently, the biggest issue is creating a system where it can be proved the affiliate has created a sale for the marketer (making the commission system work). The only idea I have is if the Affiliate got details from their client, for example, Name and address. That could be passed on to the marketer who could then see that their product was purchased by someone matching the details, and then a commission could be paid. I feel this would become too difficult and impossible if a very large amount of sales were made.
A possible idea of having 3 payment options that include fixed price, Wage, and the original commission system.
