As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, 
this is the FREE blogging course I recommend to anyone who wants to get started blogging in order to make money online. It’s written by Caroline Middlebrook, who is an excellent teacher of online marketing techniques.
Caroline’s course is split into 49 self contained lessons. I’m currently on lesson #45, which addresses how to set up your own affiliate system. Caroline has tried a few different affiliate management systems and now recommends a company called e-Junkie. Below is an excerpt from lesson #45 explaining why you might want to have an affiliate system for your product, and why e-Junkie is a good choice.
Why Affiliates Are So Beneficial
When you create and sell a product the only way you make any money is if you get lots of eyeballs in front of that product. If you launch a brand new blog which has 10 readers and you sell a product on it, you are not going to get many sales!
There are of course other marketing methods that have nothing to do with blogs as I mentioned in an earlier lesson but that is outside of the scope of this course. Basically, you have your own blog audience and when you open up your product to affiliates you have the ability to tap into their audiences too.
If you can get somebody with a large audience to promote your product, you can make a lot of money and so do they so it’s a win-win all round. Let’s say that so far you’ve been working diligently at building your blog but you still don’t have many readers yet and you’re not making much money. If you have been developing relationships with other bloggers and you start creating your own products, you can tap into those relationships and begin selling your products through affiliates. You can start making money even if your own blog readership is still relatively small.
But that’s not all – if you make sure that your products always promote your own blog, when affiliates promote your products they promote you and your blog in turn and the effects all begin to snowball.
Creating an Affiliate System With E-Junkie
I have chosen to use E-Junkie here because it is what I have used but also because they are one of the cheapest and the easiest systems to implement. There are some other alternatives but I find them to be very expensive.
Clickbank – http://www.clickbank.com/
Clickbank have a large number of affiliates which is good but the link-theft that I discussed in lesson 19 is a real problem. Plus, it costs $49.95 activation charge for each product and they also charge additional fees on each sale which are quite high.
Pay Dot Com – http://paydotcom.com/
Pay Dot Com is smaller and I have used them as an affiliate. They also charge a fee per sale which is dependent on the cost of the product.
E-Junkie doesn’t charge any fees on sales, it’s just $5 a month and I like that 
The first step is to sign up to E-Junkie below:
http://www.e-junkie.com/?r=11795
Once you’ve signed up the next step is to add a product to your E-Junkie account. You will give it a name and a price, you can upload a file that is downloaded by the buyer and you have some options you can set such as a welcome email. When you submit this information you are given some code to produce buy-now buttons which can be integrated with PayPal.
How to Get the FREE Blogger’s Bible Course
There is a free version of Caroline’s course – where you get one
lesson a week for a year. Or if you want all the lessons right away,
you can get the paid version. Either way, I think you’ll really like
this course. Click here to view more details.
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