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’ve been registered on that site for quite a while and noticed that everyone and their brother is still pimping it now. Good for them. It is another affiliate system in which you can “hope” to make some cash on if you happen to work it. Since I sign up for every affiliate system there is I figured I’d describe this one a bit and try to figure out what exactly makes it good or bad while I write.

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Does it make you any money? I’ve heard many claim that it is great, but once I actually looked into it I can’t find any real reason to promote it all that much. It is a classic pyramid scheme in which you only get paid when someone you refer as an affiliate actually BUYs something from them. Pretty lame right?

Interestingly enough I see quite a few products on there that would be helpful to affiliates in that they don’t really try and hide shady software packages, nor do they rally try and hide that fact that DealDotCom itself wants you to basically spam people.

The major issue with the program is that you really aren’t promoting products that you can sell yourself. They make you promote the affiliate program and then when someone buys something you get a cut. Pretty hard sell isn’t it? You don’t have referral links for products to use. People must sign up first through your affiliate program link, and THEN buy the product. Great scam on their part as it essentially means that the majority of people who buy something won’t be referrals of someone else. IF you promote a product through them you are essentially cutting yourself out of the deal because you are going to have to make the person who wants to buy go through an additional step just so that you are able to get paid on the transaction.

Here’s what their site says:

How do I become a DealDotCom affiliate?

If you have a free DealDotCom account, then you already are one. Just go to the Your Account page to find your affiliate link. Whenever you tell someone about DealDotCom, just make sure they click on that link so you get credit for the referral. To make it even easier, on the Your Account Page there is a link “click here to send this link to your friends” that will automatically open up your email for those of you who are too lazy to copy and paste.

What is this two-tier affiliate business?

Whenever you refer someone to DealDotCom via your handy-dandy affiliate link, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something for the rest of your life. This is a big commitment, so we suggest you take it very seriously.

Essentially you really have no reason to promote their products, and they don’t give you product affiliate links. What’s the point of just promoting DealDotCom itself then? Well…I suppose if you have an affiliate site and your readers are mainly affiliate marketers the products will be targeted to them in most cases. So if they sign up for it they may want to buy one of the products they are promoting on a daily basis.

IS there potential to make money with it? Certainly. Is it designed in an affiliate friendly way? Not particularly when you don’t get actual product affiliate links IMO.

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