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As an active affiliate, I can say that choosing a network as middleman means you will miss many 'super affiliates'. I will rarely work with CJ or LS, although Shareasale has some attraction. Definitely self-managed is most attractive to those affiliates seriously into the game, if not the only option.

The closer the marketer can get to the business decision maker, the better the bait for supers.

-----Original Message-----
From:  Andrew Yochum andrew-at-plexpod.com |nyphp dev/internal group use|
Date:  7/11/05 9:34 pm
To:  NYPHP Talk ,  chucksmith at fun-electronics.com
Subj:  Re: [nycphp-talk] finding an affiliate program in php

Hi Chuck,

On Jul 11, 2005, at 7:18 PM, chucksmith at fun-electronics.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I came to the recent meeting at IBM on Madison Ave and decided to
> sign up for
> the PHP talk list.  I run an e-commerce website at www.fun-
> electronics.com and

Welcome to the list.  We met briefly @ TGIF.

> I need to set up an affiliate program.  We want to give 5%
> commission to people
> who send customers who buy from our site.  It seems like it would
> be much better
> to take a script that someone else has written instead of trying to
> write my
> own.  Does anyone have any recommendation of open source scripts or
> even
> commercial programs they would recommend?  We're running PHP 4.3.11
> and MySQL
> 4.1.7 on FreeBSD 5.3.

I'm sure you could do this with an app, but the process of cutting
checks each month wouldn't interest me.  My clients who've setup
affiliate programs use one of the major commercial networks.  I can't
recommend any one in particular as I don't operate sites, just
implement.  I've implemented commercial solutions for a number of
clients.  Here are some of those my clients have chosen:
     http://www.cj.com/
     http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/
     http://www.directtrack.com/
     http://www.linkshare.com/

> I wrote my own shopping cart, so it seems like it would be easy to
> customize it
> to work with an affiliate script.

They're usually very easy to implement, with or without a custom cart.

HTH,
Andrew
--
Andrew Yochum
Plexpod
andrew at plexpod.com
718-360-0879

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