Possible Affiliate Solutions

Hello fellow Sitepointers,

I have this small issue.

Basically I need to create an affiliate program but I have no-idea how to do it. I’ve looked at http://www.clickbank.com and http://www.affiliatewindow.com/.

Basically the site in question is a WordPress powered website, and it’s essencial that the site has a managed affiliate program which allow me to monitor and give out any affiliate links to potential subscribers. The subscribers will fill out an online form, and from this form they will either be send their affiliate links via email manually or automatically.

Does anybody have experience with this? What’s the easiest way to go about this? How do I know when somebody get’s an affiliate link. Are there any automated things, and what’s the cheapest way to go about this?

Sorry for all the questions, any feedback would be appreciated.

… also if anybody has any news or information were I can learn more please let me know.

My opinion: you can’t do such a thing on wordpress.
You should consider making the site from zero.
There are a lot of features that you need at first and then after and working with wordpress might be a great head ache for you.

When you say working with the site from zero, you mean a framework like Yii?

I think what he is saying is that you need to build a site that’s not on the back bone of something like Word Press, but of something more professional or a website from scratch.

Word press with limit you, from scratch, you can build anything you want

something more professional

Do you have any suggestions?

there are a bunch of good platforms out there that you can expand on with plug in’s. It’s going to depend on what your selling and the approach you use.

For some, I’ve seen great success using social media platforms like phpfox and dolphin where the sales experience to the end user is done in a familar setting thats well, like face book.

For others it’s better to do it with raw html, no scripts other than maybe a CMS and a shopping cart.

If you want to contact me via email and tell me what exactly you are selling , then maybe I can come up with something better. I only want to sell my product and have no desire to sell anything else