Affiliate Networks: ClickBank, JVZoo, AppSumo and others. Do they really work ?
I read the post about viddyoze and how they make their traffic through affiliates
So first of all - totally understand that Affiliate is for a product that's going from 1 => N and not 0 => 1
But even after that, does it really work ?
I looked at JVZoo - and honestly a lot of it looks scammy.
I mean look at their landing page (link redacted)
I've been trained all my life to take such landing pages for some sort of small time scams - eBooks, or pills. But it seems they really do work.
If the affiliate program really works - then how does it work ? I've never ever seen this product in my life. I don't know of anyone who even knows this product - yet it does more than 3mn every month via affiliates. Who is buying it ? Who are they selling to ? Rough maths tell me if they sell 3mn a month, at a price of 60 bucks - they would be selling to more than 50k users a month.
Yet Ahref tells me their site traffic is at 15k - which still is very very good. And they don't have a single blog post - so its even more impressive. But 50k new users every month would imply a slightly higher site traffic.
Anyway - I thought I'd just ask that question here. What do you guys think ? Do Affiliate networks work ?
To keep it short, I will tell you that I have a very very very long association with these networks & yes, they do work! Don't look at the Scammy Products (They are everywhere) Take a look at the Good Products & how they are being sold. Drop me an email if you wish to discuss further on this...
But my 2Cents - The grass is Always Greener on the Other Side. Better Focus on Monthly Recurring SAAS/Products or Services. Learn Paid Ads & Make them work for you. This will help you in the long term in Building a More Stable & High Growth Business!
Best of luck!
P.S. - Majority of the for Viddyoze came from Facebook Ads
Interesting - Love to chat on this
It's an entire world of things... Including back channels of sales, vendor acting as affiliates for a lunch, affiliates hiding their traffic sources, vendors stealing traffic sources from affiliates, affiliates becoming vendor on a competing product.. recruiting affiliates might be it's own work, if you list it, doesn't mean they come, you can probably see it in the lists... The base promise is you pay well for them to take the risk and find how to market it cost effectively. Or in some cases just a risk sharing system to pay for traffic to people with existing audiences..
Did you try Amazong affiliate network? I'm working with it on my WordPress hosted website and its really good for me. You can see my blog https://besticious.com
of course affiliates work, they are the backbone of few industries..
An affiliate is just another entity that promotes your product, you can't be everywhere and take up all seo positions for every keyword.
So one company focuses on creating product and bringing affiliates, and affiliates focus on creating engaging (sometimes spammy) experiences to draw end customers to the product.
I m not sure which side of affiliation you are asking, but I have two blogs and I registered multiple affiliate programs. For me, only Amazon Affiliate program works.
The reason is pretty simple. When people do not trust your website or service(since my blog is young and unknown, which causes low domain authority), they want to buy products from well known sellers.