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Have you been considering selling your own program or products?

Once you have been an affiliate marketer and marketing other peoples products for quite some time it is normal that after a while you will have the need to eventually sell your own products to make bigger earnings and with this will need to have your own affiliate program.

Of course you can use Clickbank or Amazon or even E-Junkie if you have ebooks or virtual goods, but if you want to be in full control and not go through a 3rd party provider, then you can run your own affiliate program, which means you take full responsibility on giving commissions to your affiliate marketers who market your product for you.

My Personal Experience

I run my SEO Book, SEO Revenge on both CB and E-Junkie. The benefits of having your own product in these sites is that you are listed in the marketplace so it is great if your just starting out to be found by aggressive affiliate marketers who will promote your product for you in exchange for commissions of course.

But with one of my other sites which is based on users who can upgrade to premium membership, I decided to try something a little different. I have bought a full license of an affiliate program called iDevAffiliate to run on my website GSEO.net which you can see the affiliate program here.

It costed me $299, but this included the full SEO modules as well, to make your affiliate links search engine friendly and other nifty extras, but the program starts as low as $99. The thing is because my site GSEO.net has a membership based system on there it seemed more practical for me. However I handle more of the customer relationship and am responsible for payments to affiliate marketers for which ever paying members they send my way, they get commissions on.

What are the benefits?

The handy thing is you can set up your own text ads for affiliate marketers to get code from to place on their site all from one nice easy to use admin. They can choose from a selection of my banners and email ads as well.

Don’t  get me wrong CB also allow you to run your own membership based system too, but there are differences. Anyway it just depends which way you want to go, but for me, I decided to trial this out, as I noticed other professionals in the same field as me such as Aaron Wall, has this running on his site, so I decided to give it a go.

Let me run through on how to make your own affiliate program with the following:

Clickbank
First of all you will need to create your own landing page, you can do this with Pitch Magic then after you have done this, you simply register with Clickbank as a Vendor (Not as an affiliate) It costs $49.95 set up fee.
What you are allowed to sell: eBooks, Memberships, Videos, anything virtual.

Amazon
Before you get accepted into selling any product, you will need an ISBN (for a book), or a UPC (for a CD or DVD). For one book it costs $125, for one CD, $55, for one DVD, $89. Second of all you will need to get a bar code based on the ISBN or UPC. Costs $10, or may be included in UPC. Sign up at $30 per year. Duplicate your stuff; include the bar code on the outside, ship two copies to them before getting final approval. Once you are approved, you can get affiliate marketers to promote your product through the Associates program.
What you are allowed to sell: Books, CD’s DVD’s.

E-junkie
Probably one of the easiest programs to get going with. You simply register as a Seller (not as an affiliate) and you add your images and upload your files that you want to let your buyers download. You also set your commissions that you are offering to other affiliate marketers in there as well.
What you are allowed to sell: eBooks, Memberships, Videos, anything virtual.

iDevAffiliate
You register with them. Then once you are in the download area you can download the files, 1 license per one website. After you have downloaded the files, you can upload this to your website preferably create a folder called your domain dot com / affiliate. Create your own affiliate banners, and set your commissions, and away you go.
What you are allowed to sell: No Limits.

As an affiliate marketer it is important to be open and trial different programs to see which ones work best, although I am yet to discover GSEO.net affiliate programs full potential for me it is all about learning and applying and gaining insight for the long term.

What affiliate program do you use? Have you had any experience with any program of your own?