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Talking Points:
- How Affiliate Programs Work
- Percentage of Gross sales 2%-8%
- Cut of the cart
- Pay monthly
- Tracking
- Amazon’s Affiliate Program
- Pro: Easiest to Sign Up For
- Pro: Easiest to Use
- Pro: Largest Customer Base
- Pro: Cut of the cart brings in a lot of extra $$
- Con: Not Available in all states
- Barnes & Nobles Affiliate Program
- Con: Not Author Friendly
- Con: Lowest Payout: 2% – 4%
- Con: Recently Changed Vendors All Old Links Broken
- Pro: Works in all states
- iTunes Affiliate Program
- Pro: Highest base percentage.
- Pro: Great interface & reporting
- Pro: Highest Base Commission 7%
- Pro: Works in all states
- International users: Genius Link
- Automatically localizes your buy links.
- Automatically inserts correct affiliate code for particular country.
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Thanks for the tips about affiliate links. There is another wordpress plugin which simplifies affiliate linking and localization http://easyazon.com/go-pro/
You do have to be careful with affiliate programs, it can be tempting to sign up for affiliate programs all over the world, but some programs will only pay out to certain geographic areas. For instance, amazon.cn will only pay out to banks/addresses in that country. Don’t know what you’ll do with a bunch of store credit on amazon.cn, but keep that in mind. LOL
Also, the affiliate programs will report your earnings to the federal government, so make sure you remember to report that income on your taxes!
Get well Jim!