Do you sell or have affiliates promoting your own products on the web? Or are you an affiliate marketer promoting someone else’s products? I personally don’t have any product to sell (maybe in the future…), but i promote ebooks/books/services/products as an affiliate.

I’m kinda wondering about payment options, i’ve seen some (many) affiliate programs that rely only on paypal as method of payment, while others have their own secure server and credit card processors, or use clickbank, cj, or others, or offers the buyer to send a check… i’m really wondering why one would rely only on a single payment method (like “paypal only”.. sure it’s fast and easy to setup an account.. but still, many countries are not listed), there must be a reason for that! Why not offer multiple payment options (which would make it easier for the “potential buyer” to actually buy your product!)??

I wrote a post about “automating your business” a couple days ago, and i think i should have added something like: make sure your customers can buy your products any tiime of the day and offer many (not just one) reliable methods of payment.

If you are an affiliate marketer, and/or you do business online, do you sometimes worry that your customers/leads may not be able to purchase that particular product when they are ready to?

If that happens it would result in you still having to pay for your marketing and advertisement (pay-per-click, banner placements, time, efforts…) and potentially not getting that sale/commission. When choosing an affiliate program to promote, do you check to see if that program offers multiple methods of payments, and if they don’t, do you still promote that service/product?

One thing is for sure, if you want to make more money, you gotta automate your business… but what about the things that you don’t have control over, like methods of payment, and reliability/uptime of the website your send your visitors to?