Recommended affiliate marketplace?

by ddupont

Posted: 2 years ago 16 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hello,

I penned this on Wednesday night but it doesn't look like it got posted (?), so I'm trying again.

It's probably ten years since I last logged into the Warrior Forum.

I now administer an organic, no-till gardening course. We're in the Pacific Northwest of Canada but are selling across both North America and Europe.

In late May, I listed our course on the ClickBank marketplace. However, I have painfully discovered that ClickBank's vendor and customer support are both abysmal.

Some Canadian customers have been unable to submit their orders even when trying more than one card (getting "invalid info" msgs). And their contact experience with ClickBank customer support has been very poor.

On my end as a vendor, ClickBank are adding the 7% PST (Provincial Sales Tax) for BC customers when our product is actually PST exempt. I submitted a detailed ticket on June 9 with their accounts dept. showing them the relevant tax code and requesting an exemption to PST, and they closed the ticket four weeks later with no response at all. I have followed up, another week has passed, and still no response. Absolutely disrespectful and abysmal!

So I am going to ditch ClickBank and list on another affiliate marketplace.

I've been out of Internet marketing for over a decade, so I am seeking feedback from y'all here who are more up-to-date with the best of what's available today.

Our gardening course is a membership for US$147 or CAD$197. If you were in my shoes, which affiliate marketplaces / vendors would you recommend as the best for a course like this today?

Thank you all!

Damien

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Kay King 2 years ago

Sorry for the delay - there was some hesitance on approving your thread because the WF is not a complaint forum and much of the comments seemed to be CB focused.

How active is your affiliate program - does it acct for a large proportion of your sales?
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ddupont 2 years ago

Thank you Kay, including for the explanation. My post wasn't intended as a complaint, just honest and transparent feedback on our recent experience with CB.

Most of our sales are non-affiliate through our own marketing which is mainly social media and word of mouth from existing members.

However, I plan to soon begin pro-actively contacting influencers in the health, gardening and prepping niches to offer them guest webinars with Dan (our head market gardener) in return for promoting our course to their lists where they will earn 50% on all sales. We don't want to have to manage calculating and making monthly affiliate payments ourselves, which is one reason we listed on ClickBank.

Another reason was visibility for our course on a large affiliate marketplace, so that we could hopefully pickup unsolicited affiliates to also promote it, particularly given the food price inflation and looming shortages which are motivating more people to garden. We are seeing some promotion from affiliates who have seen us on CB, but not enough for us to remain on CB given the problems I identified in my earlier post.

I look forward to your recommendations including hopefully those of other seasoned marketers here.

Thank you,

Damien
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Chris-

2 years ago

JVZoo are good in many ways. Their FB group usually has admins answer a question or approve a new product in minutes, and they are often adding new features and improving things.

My guess is that they are better than CB, but I don't have experience of both, myself.

Chris

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ddupont

2 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris-

Thank you Chris. I only just spotted your reply now as I got an email notification for the other three replies in the past 24 hours.

I did look at JVZoo last month, and Digistore24 as well. The challenge with both is that neither offer CAD as a checkout currency. JVZoo offer USD, AUD, EUR, JPY and GBP. Surprising that they offer AUD but not CAD, given that Canada is a significantly larger market. I contacted both JVZoo and Digistore24 about this and they both responded, but neither is offering CAD yet.

We sell in both USD and CAD, the latter because we are Canada based and most of our gardening course members are Canadian for now. So I've decided to remain on ClickBank for the foreseeable future.

Cheers,

Damien

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- agmccall 2 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mkashif34001
  
  In my opinion amazon is the best for affiliate marketing
  
  So, you have not been doing affiliate marketing all that much then.
  
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Artkantos 2 years ago

Overall I have had a good experience with Hotmart, but maybe is more focused on the latin and Brazilian market, I haven't tried it in English tbh
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Araeza Sagala 2 years ago

Have you ever tried muncheye?
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- agmccall 2 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Araeza Sagala
  
  Have you ever tried muncheye?
  
  you do realize that muncheye is not an affiliate network, right?
  
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talfighel 2 years ago

So why not just advertise to non British Columbia customers.

That way, they don't have to pay the PST.

Or just lower your price.
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affiliateforever 2 years ago

you can try Digistore24,it is similar to Clicbbank.
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- ddupont 2 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by affiliateforever
  
  you can try Digistore24,it is similar to Clicbbank.
  
  Yes I did look at and contacted Digistore24. The limitation with them is that they do not offer CAD$ as a checkout currency. We're based in Canada and most of our existing members are Canadian, so we need to offer both CAD and USD checkout.
  
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savidge4

2 years ago

In todays overall marketspace... i have to wonder why you would really need an affiliate platform?

I would be getting "Dan" on making FB shorts and Instagram content and linking towards your own site for information and purchase.

I would be creating subsections of your website that hit specifically on your primary targets ( health, gardening and prepping niches ) and creating video short content targeting each of those specifically.

A little up front work ( cost ) and you are keeping 100% on the back end... it almost sounds like the majority of your sales are done in house as it is? so its a matter of dropping the headaches ( affiliate platforms ) and moving forward with what is actually working.

You are thinking ( as many do) that your ticket to growth is affiliate, but it sounds like you have the systems in place that are already effective and just need to be scaled.

Hope that Helps!

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ddupont

2 years ago

Originally Posted by savidge4

I would be creating subsections of your website that hit specifically on your primary targets ( health, gardening and prepping niches ) and creating video short content targeting each of those specifically.

A little up front work ( cost ) and you are keeping 100% on the back end... it almost sounds like the majority of your sales are done in house as it is?

Thanks for the detailed tips savidge4.

Yes, most of our sales are from social media and word-of-mouth from existing members.

Having an affiliate program is still an important arrow to have in our quiver though. I haven't begun contacting potential JV partners in related niches yet, but having our offer emailed out to 20K+ subscribers of such partners isn't something to neglect. This is an area I'll get active with from next March, the start of spring growing season.

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toysoldier80 2 years ago

Why not sell it on Amazon? A product like that should sell like hotcakes with their platform. Organic is so hot right now with organic sales continuing to grow year after year. The organic food sales should be well over 60 billion this year 2022. A book about growing food organically will definitely pique the interest of both the folks that are interested and the folks that already love food organically because it is so good for the digestive system.

Not tilling the soil is a great selling point for your product. Most farms till the soil, use pesticides, and basically do not care as much about the food they are distributing as much as the organic farms. Just shows your gardening practices put people first, and those practices are usually practiced throughout a business like that.
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jobdollarr 2 years ago

You can get a list of paying affiliates at affpaying. I used to use that
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Jim Symonds 2 years ago

With any affiliate marketplace, you are subject to their fees, rules and support, or lack thereof.

Another option is to simply run your own affiliate program, and maintain complete autonomy and control.
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