The Gamestop Affiliate program is one of the better ones out there for people who have sites around gaming, or just pop culture sites. If you have ever bought and sold video games before you know that the margin between retail and direct is not exactly large. A game retailing for $50 typically can be bought for around $40-42 if you aren’t a big time store out there. So the margin isn’t exceptional, and you still have to worry about the shipping, and the order processing.

The Gamestop program pays out 5% for almost everything so that would equate to about $2-4 a sale on most things. Not too shabby just to have a banner on your site or something.

At this point I don’t believe they have a referral program for the affiliate program, but if they did I would sure be promoting it…lol

Clickbooth was sort of an interesting program when I found it. Originally i was out looking for affiliate programs that offered coupon codes, but when I found this one I was rather impressed. The reason for that is that they have a ton of original offers that I haven’t seen on many other affiliate sites.

As an Adsense alternative I find it to be very useful on sites that aren’t particularly SEO friendly. Those sites that may have many topics such as pop culture sites, or sites that have content which has terrible Adsense payout rates.

Clickbooth has the kind of affiliate links and banners that are quick and easy for your visitors to complete, and sign up for. A lot of e-mail submits, as well as a lot of pop culture and eye catching ads. Great programs such as a $25 payout for programs such as showing people how they can become an extra in TV shows, or movies. They just sign up for it and it gives them listing for their area of what shows/movies in a reasonable distance that they can show up for. All they have to do is get referred and you make the cash. Who doesn’t want to make a few hundred dollars a week being an Extra in a movie?

Sign up for Clickbooth and make sure to utilize their generous referral program as well. They pay you $10 for every referral you send them PLUS 2% of your referred publisher’s income for LIFE. Not just 6 months like many of the other places do. The $10 sign up bonus is also gold. You can’t go wrong with that.

Also, I recommend that you contact your affiliate manager when you sign up. They will help you set up a plan for your website and give you the best performing ads to help make you the most cash. I can’t stress this enough. In fact I would recommend it, not just for Clickbooth, but for any affiliate program in which you place ads on your site. You may know your visitors well, but surely an affiliate manger has more data than you do as to how certain ads perform based on your demographics.

Also, Pay Per Click marketing is quite useful for most of these campaigns. With the use of PPC you don’t even need to have a high traffic website already. In many cases you will want to create a new site with a couple of pages for these campaigns as they are more targeted to what searchers are looking for. Obviously you are going to want to look for low cost clicks that convert, but a good way to start with PPC is to use Yahoo! Sponsored Search lists your business on top sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN. Sign up and get a $25 credit..

I don’t know how many of you have noticed this yet, but AGLOCO has disappeared off the face of the planet. No explanation. No warnings. If you try to go to their website it is a dead link. Even their blog was never updated again after October.

I’m sure most of you, like myself gave up on Agloco long ago. Their ridiculous explanations on their Viewbar. The delays after delays in getting it out. This company was pretty much BSing everyone that followed them. Most of us assumed they would never make it, and we were right.

There are a couple of things that I really found disturbing about them while they were around, however. First, was the fact that they never said a word to anyone when they shut it all down. They just killed their website and stopped updating the affiliates. The last e-mail i believe I received from Agloco was back in November and that e-mail went on to say something about how they couldn’t afford to pay out any dividends to the affiliates at this time. Just one month after they detailed how they were going to pay out affiliates, and saying that they were raising the payout per hour.

The most disturbing thing in Agloco’s short history had to do with a request that we received from the management team in I suppose was October 2007. This wasn’t publicly issued. This was sent to the affiliates via e-mail. In the e-mail the management team requested that we use the Viewbar to search through their main sponsor Ask.com. No big deal. Good idea. Well… if you kept reading that e-mail they went on to ask that once you did a search with Ask.com that you would CLICK ON THEIR SPONSORED ADS. Can you believe this? If anyone has ever been part of an ad program of any sort they know that this is the biggest no no there is. It is stealing money from the advertisers for personal gain, and will get you kicked out of every program almost instantly if you are caught.

My theory is that Ask.com dumped Agloco and they had no other option, but to fold. After getting that e-mail asking for clicks, I had no reason to think they would be around much longer anyways. That was a desperate measure. In fact that request was likely forwarded to ask.com by many who received it and they should have immediately dumped Agloco, and then sued them on top of it.

UPDATE: AGLOCO IS DEAD

I’m sure some of you would want to give to charitable organizations more often. We all would wouldn’t we? Even though many are just going to want to keep their AGLOCO money, there will be an option to give what you make for surfing the internet directly to charity if you so choose.

Yes, you will be able to give your cash and/or shares directly to the Charity of your choice. AGLOCO™ will also work with select Charities so as to facilitate donations. In addition, The AGLOCO™ Foundation was set up to promote free access to information across the world. The Development Team has agreed to tender the shares they earn as Founding Members to the Foundation.

So, not only can those of us who want to earn money online for ourselves benefit greatly, we also have the option to give to charity instead.

I have just got word from our Shanghai based tech team with an update on the Viewbar status. Most of the QA tests are going well with the exception of the ad servers. The team is currently integrating the Viewbar with the ad servers so that the Viewbar will have ads (and revenue) ready to go when it launches (it would not make too much sense to release a Viewbar that was not making any money). So, while the Viewbar is still on track for release this month, making the April 2nd to 16th window is getting more difficult – and, yes, the Shanghai team has been working seven days a week for quite a while now and will continue to do so until the Viewbar is released.

There is some good Viewbar news for most of you. As I mentioned in my last post, we are initially releasing about 50,000 Viewbars to those Members that signed up first. Our current plan is to release another 50,000 Viewbars every day until every pre-launch Member has a Viewbar (which means all Members should have their Viewbar within the first 10 – 11 days). This should alleviate some of the fears Members have expressed that they might have to wait weeks or months for their Viewbar. We recognize that there have been delays on the front end of the release, so we are trying to tighten up the back end of the release as much as possible.

Also, as some Members have correctly pointed out, AGLOCO’s early revenue will not immediately translate into cash distributions to Members. While we do not know how large our initial revenue will be, we do know that AGLOCO has operating costs to pay. It is important to remember that AGLOCO is not a “get rich quick scheme”, and we maintain that the most prudent way to build AGLOCO as a sustainable company is to calibrate Member distributions to company earnings. As such, the cash payouts will not begin until there is a comfortable balance between AGLOCO’s free cash flow and AGLOCO’s expenses. It is important to add that all Members will begin to accumulate hours from when they first start using the Viewbar (and referral hours will also be earned). Those hours will not be wasted. Both overall hours and monthly hours will be used in determining distributions to Members.

I’ll keep you posted as relevant updates continue to come up.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team
http://blog.agloco.com/