Make Money On Wizzley: Making Money With ShareASale

ShareASale is an "affiliate marketing network", its most similar to Commission Junction in that many of the merchants are either physical stores or online stores promoting physical goods. However, like Clickbank, it also allows merchants who provide entirely digital products such as software.

Its merchants predominantly will pay you if a customer clicks through from your link and makes a purchase. There are however a few merchants who will also pay you per a lead i.e. will pay you if a prospect fills in a form.

Once you have signed up for ShareASale: <<< easy to use affiliate link HERE >>> 

You need to sign up for some merchants. How to choose? ShareASale has everything from hotels to baby gear, perfume to outdoor clothing.

Well my advice is to look through until you recognize some brands. For example - I'm familiar with traveling on a budget - so I know that HostelWorld  is a really big player in the budget accommodation field. If I've heard of them, then so will my potential customers. And people online, tend to buy from names/brands they already know.

As with any affiliate marketing opportunity - you won't make a cent unless you have the right sort of traffic. If you don't understand what I mean by that - go and check out the first article in this series - linked at the bottom of the page!

You also won't make money unless Merchants approve your application to be their affiliate. To date, I've had better luck with getting merchants to approve my application on ShareASale than on CJ - in one case the exact same merchant declined me on CJ and automatically approved me on ShareASale!

Should you be with both CJ and ShareASale?

Well if you are near to, or making, payout with one of these networks I'd stay with it until you are making maybe $500/month, then I'd branch out to the other if you have need to i.e. there are merchants available that you can't reach on your current network.

You may well find merchants in your niche that are available via both Commission Junction and ShareASale. In general I would chose to use them via ShareASale - because a) the payout limit is lower ($50 compared to $100) and because you account will not get closed because of inactivity - which does happen with CJ.

If I was advising a beginner who wanted an alternative to Amazon, and/or who are looking to monetize a topic which does not work well with either Adsense or Amazon, then I'd suggest ShareASale. Its fairly easy to use interface, is a lot better than the infinity confusing CJ one.

Most merchants in the ShareASale program will give you banners - and these are easy to use on Wizzley. To display the banner below I started a new text capsule, clicked on the html button and cut and pasted the banner code in. You can also do it part way through a text module - but you must switch to html view before pasting the banner! 

The whole concept of an affiliate marketing outside of Amazon is very confusing anyways! A simpler interface really does help!