Balancing Your Income Between Networks!

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Collin in Top affiliate challenge, affiliate marketing

OK this I will admit can be a bit tricky to do, but one thing I have always believed in is to never have all your eggs in one basket. If you do, I can pretty much promise you – your losing money.

Every affiliate has there primary network (there bread and butter so to speak) that they use and I have mine. Instead of just keeping all my campaigns in one place, over the past two months I have been increasing the amount of sites built with other networks following my system , plus I have been adding there links into rotation (using Prosper 202) on sites that I know are producing leads and have good traffic.  This has done a few things for me.

  • Helped me build credibility with more then just one network. You can build a stronger relationship with the networks and your affiliate managers when they see you actually produce an income and that you can also prove that you know what your doing.
  • It has also helped me balance out where my money comes from. Not every network follows the same payment routine so, if you can even out where your leads are coming from – you can spread out your income to show up at different times of the month. This has helped me a lot because I am a shopping whore!

Regarding your primary network.

Once you get your earnings high enough with them, you can ask to go on a by weekly payment schedule. Most networks will do this for you because they know you have expenses you need to cover and if they want to see you keep growing – you need your cash flow.

Have you ever thought of this?

Networks can get judged on the quality of there affiliates, just like we get judged based on the quality of our leads. So, based on that quality – different networks will post different conversion rates. By adding in a few links of the same offer from different networks – you can assure you are getting the most possible money and also find the network with the better affiliates for that offer. If your just trying a new network out – make sure they know they are in rotation with another network too – just in case the network is scrub happy!

“At the end of the day its all about making money and trying to keep everyone honest while protecting your income”

  1. Forest said on May 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Hey Colin,

    I recently had a site using zip submits rotating from one network…. the network banned and stopped all my zip subs whilst I was away from the computer and adwords kept running…. guess what? I lost a nice sum of money. If I had been rotating offers between networks my losses would have been greatly reduced!

    Great post.

    Reply
  2. Collin said on May 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    Ya we always learn the hard way don’t we!

    Reply
  3. Melvin said on May 8th, 2009 at 4:07 am

    Nice tips.. I am rotating between just two networks, how bout you?

    Reply
  4. Collin said on May 8th, 2009 at 4:59 am

    Depending on your traffic – at least two networks.

    Reply
  5. Buy PSP Go said on August 14th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    You’re bang on the mark here, when working with just one affiliate network they are in a position of power. When working with multiple networks you are in control as long as you spread your earnings round evenly.

    Reply

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