The Affiliate Junktion Program

Let's start with the
good sides of this program
1) The
Affiliate Junktion is a pay per lead program. You make people
sign up, and get paid for every sign-ups made from your
affiliate website or from your affiliate link. The payments
start with $2 per lead, but increases as you start to make more
leads - until you reach the maximum payment of $5 per lead.
2) You can join for free and start
making money instantly. You get your own free affiliate website
and some free promoting tools that make it easier to get
started. What you get is about $155 in advertising credits with
Google and Yahoo and some other free tools.
3) You don’t need to pay for joining, although you have to pay
about $59 for the hosting plan with Ipower, but you get it all
back when you sign up with Affiliate Junktion. They will give
you $75 only for signing up.
4) Together with the website package
you also get a training program that you have to work with. It
is not very heavy stuff, although there are a lot of pages. It
is important to work through the whole material before you
start, in fact, it pays. You also get your own personal guide,
the affiliate manager Michael is very helpful and answers all
your questions.
5) Affiliate Junktion
is a quite easy program and most people will manage to make
money with this program. A program very suitable for newbies.
I have tried Affiliate
Junktion for some time now and the nice side of this program is
that they for the most actually keep what they promise. However,
this program has also some bad sides:
The Bad Sides
1) Problem to get
answer on mails. They promise personal
guiding and support. This is only partly true, because very many
complain that they don't get answer on their mails. Personally I
usually I get an answer, but not always. It seems they have very
many affiliates and they have not managed to find a good support
solution.
2) It is important to
notice that Affiliate Junktion pays their affiliates in NZ
dollars, and not in US dollars. NZ dollars are worth about 20%
less than US dollars.
3) You need to be an
active affiliate for 45 days before you get paid and you need to
make at least $150 including your sign-up bonus to get paid at
all. You get approved not for the present month, but for the
preceding one. That means, the 30.june you get approved the
leads you made in may. If you started to work 1.may, you will
get your first payment the 30.june and that will include only
the leads you made from 1-30.may.
4) Affiliate Junktion
has no other payment option than check. That means that you will
get your payment on a check sent by post. It may take several
days before you get your payment.
5) But it is even
worse that they don't approve your earnings before the end
of the next month. Your
payment is pending until the end of the next month and you can
never be sure how much of it will be approved. That makes it
very difficult to calculate how much you can spend on
advertising. Even if it looks quite profitable, you may got a
surprise in the end of next month.
The reason for this is that Affiliate Junktion makes money as affiliate for Ipower. When somebody
signs up for a hosting plan and a domain with Ipower, Affiliate
Junktion get paid $100. $75 they give back to the new affiliate
as a sign-up bonus and $2-$5 goes to the referrer.
However, it is
possible to make money with this program, in fact it is quite
easy. You only have to be very careful with your advertising
budget. Don't spend money
on expensive Google campaigns. They are very effective, but you
never know how much you get paid. There are several
alternatives. You can for instance use the SpiderWeb system to
make a huge list and advertise to the list for free, very many
affiliates do it like that - myself included. You can sign up
for free here:

You should also consider to use some of the smaller Pay Per
Click companies, like Yahoo or Miva. They have less competition
and advertising campaigns are often more profitable than with
Google.
Conclusion: Affiliate
Junktion is an easy program to manage, it is easy to get
started, it is free and everybody can make money with this
program. But be very careful with advertising, don't spend a lot
of money on that, be careful and don't believe what you have
earned before you see what you get approved.
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