Payment Options - Wondering
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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?
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I have a couple of links on my site as an affiliate, but I have no idea how I am going to be paid if I make a sale through those links. I just clicked on the send cheque option since I am currently residing in Bahrain and its not listed for Paypal. You have brought up a good point to think about.
I had and still have my plans to make some money from my blog, but adsense went for a six, they disabled my account and I have no idea who was behind the invalid clicks, my second appeal pleading innocence is still pending with Google, although I pretty sure they wont reinstate my account. I have Bidvertiser now, which I had picked up from your blog. Your blog is a must read for bloggers, old or new bee’s like me.
Keep us posted Johnathan. Cheers and take care.
Thanx a lot Robin! It’s cool to know my blog helps people! :)
Well as for payouts at affiliate programs, asking for a check is probably the way to go if your country is not listed on Paypal, or you can also check out e-gold or epassporte, or see if your affiliate prograam can pay you using wire transfer/bank transfer.
Yeah bidvertiser is a good service, i’m trying them out a little, but so far adsense is doing good for me, i don’t want to put all my eggs in the same basket, so it’s good to try other ad services.
Good luck with everything Robin! You’re doing real good! Keep up the good work! :)
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