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Have you been looking around for an affiliate marketplace to promote your products?

ShareASale are one of the oldest affiliate networks around, and seem to be still holding strong. One thing about ShareASale is if you have your own product or website and want to be a Merchant it is very cost effective to set up compared to affiliate networks such as Commission Junction who charge Merchants around $6,000 for set up and to be listed in the marketplace.

With ShareASale it’s just $550 for the network access fee and $100 for the minimum deposit, then there is a $25 a monthly cost which seems to be pretty reasonable.

I myself have used ShareASale for quite a few years, and am always happy about their tracking reports and payments, they are very reliable on sending money.

The good thing about having a Merchant account is:

1. Setup your account in a matter of hours. Determine your commission amount
2. Upload creatives for affiliates to use. Banners, Text Data feeds, Videos and Widgets
3. Affiliates generate traffic to your site. You pay only on generated leads and sales

What is unique about their Merchant system and different from any other is that you as a business can add your own promotional Videos to the system for affiliate marketers can promote, they are exclusive to ShareASale. So after someone clicks your video this

Here is a static example of the video (pretty smart hey!):

On the other hand if you are an Affiliate and would like to earn commissions then ShareASale is a good start paying around 20% on most affiliate programs.

If you have had some experience using ShareASale and would like to give some feedback to the readers, feel free to leave your comment below.