Commission Junction, founded in 1998 and acquired by ValueClick in 2003, is one of the largest affiliate marketing channels on the Internet. Their advertisers – the merchants that sell products or services online – are relatively bigger and better-developed companies. Generally, this means the products and services that the publishers – affiliates – promote have better quality.
This is a very good advantage for the affiliates because they can promote products that are reliable and keep their websites trustworthy. (Read more about ClickBank review and how challenging it is to find quality products to promote through ClickBank.) But generally this makes affiliate payout smaller as the profit margin is already small for the merchants.
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https://www.cj.com/faq.html
By Terri Ann, December 2, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
Have you used CJ yourself? Do you think for small publishers it’s worth giving them a try or skip it till you get bigger? It doesn’t seem right they can only hold payouts under $50 for 6 months. I can’t find that on their website.
By admin, December 5, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
Thanks for visiting. I just checked their site and couldn’t find the payment information myself. They must have changed their FAQ. As far as the question regarding a small business trying it, you have a good point. Once they’ve established some traffic to their site, it would work better.
By Blythe, February 11, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
There is a lot of fine print. I found it annoying that you have to sign up before you can see who the merchants are to tell if they are ones you would want to promote. With niche sites, that can be a bit of a problem. I couldn’t find the $50 rule, but if you don’t have any sales for 6 months, they can start charging you a dormant fee, which they don’t say how much that is. Plus they can apply “charge-backs” to your account at any time say, if someone decides to return the merchandise or other reasons. It was a little too intimidating to me. I agree it might be better to wait until I have a larger site.