Affiliate Programs publisher / affiliate software needed like cj.com

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

Does anyone know an out of the box package of software that will allow for the similar setup of publishers and affiliates like cj.com or bigblue.com?

I have been using leadhound software but the support stinks.

any help is appreaciated.

Thanks
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[Momentum]

http://myaffiliateprogram.com/ and http://directtrack.com/

Are the two most commonly used affiliate tracking and management services available.

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

The problem with both of those are hosted by them and they won't let us host it, so it's kinda like renting it.

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[strongvis]

If you want something on the scale of your own CJ I'd think that a box solution is probably not the route. I'd think it'd be wiser to invest in having your own created through elance or rentacoder or some site like that.

 

[5starAffiliates]

Check out http://www.affiliatewiz.com/

 

[strongvis]

Linda does this support multiple programs like Cj does ?

 

[5starAffiliates]

strongvis,

So sorry, missed your post. If you want to launch a NETWORK app like CJ so multiple merchant programs can be set up, the way to go is with DirectTrack's network version.

 

[David G]

The problem with both of those are hosted by them and they won't let us host it, so it's kinda like renting it. -=DCG=-

Agree, who wants to host it when you have your own dedicated server as I do too. Right, it's similar to renting it rather than owning it.

Several yrs ago I purchased a good affiliate program (myaffiliateprogram) from Kowabunga Technologies, stand-alone, 1-time fee, no monthly cost, runs on my computer. A good deal for me at the time. After a while they realized the real money was in requiring it run on their computer and a monthly or yrly fee be paid to so they stopped selling the old program.

Alledgedly to make up for the old programs less revenue and try to get everyone to upgrade they stopped supporting it unless you paid $195-hour for support per incident, with no limit on the time charged and requiring a form agreeing no refunds of the support or chargebacks, and also open-ended support fee per hr with no limits on your credit card. That sure sucks big time! I refused to pay and the program then stopped working and I lost the money buying it in the first place. Since then I have had no affiliate program as could not find a good one without requiring you to get married to the firm, which is the goal of the affiliate programs I have looked at, run on their server, pay lots of $ for support, and an excessive monthly fee forever, which sucks.

P.S. That very high hrly fee for support/programming had a 1-hr minimum fee (even if the issue took 5-minutes to resolve), and open-ended signed form agreeing they could charge you for as many hrs as they pleased, be it 1 hr or many hrs. Since the fee was mostly incurred off-the-phone and offline by them (for alleged programming work) you had no way of tracking if the support hrs and time was truly spent or not. That sucks more than most anything I have ever seen on the-web.

 

[David G]

http://myaffiliateprogram.com/ and http://directtrack.com/ Are the two most commonly used affiliate tracking and management services available.

The program itself may be 'good' but myaffiliateprogram's policies, service, high pricing for extras, ongoing fees, support people, and support policies suck big time, IMO, speaking from lots of bitter experience with KowaBunga Technologies. Perhaps my most disliked web-firm.

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

After searching forvere and trying over 50 programs that stunk I found one that was good.

It's pricey but is by far the bets out there http://www.partnersmanager.com/products.htm

You can see it running on that site and see the demos.

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[5starAffiliates]

DotComGod,

Hey, thanks for that one. Since I'm an affiliate management consultant I thought I knew them all but have never ever even heard of this one. I will have to check it out.

 

[Jernet]

After searching forvere and trying over 50 programs that stunk I found one that was good.

It's pricey but is by far the bets out there http://www.partnersmanager.com/products.htm

You can see it running on that site and see the demos.

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wow, that's looks almost identical to cj.com!

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

Netwprowler,

Its also works very well.

I have it setup on extremerevenue.com

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[5starAffiliates]

Whoa - I had not tried the demo when I posted before - but it's so much like CJ it's scary!!!

www.extremerevenue.com is a beautiful site. Didn't realize you had your own network.

My partner and I are launching a new network this summer too. But we have already committed to using DirectTrack since most of our customers are already on that platform. Plus as much exposure as I get in all the articles I write and all the affiliate forums I mod - CJ keeps their eye on my partner and I. I am sure if we used this software it would cause a lawsuit because CJ would think it was too much a copy of their interface or something.

I'll get her to take a look though. Our other company is PartnerCentric, so it would be a pretty nice match, namewise. Oh God, CJ would kill us! They get upset as it is when we put clients on DT.

 

[lilian]

It's pricey but is by far the bets out there http://www.partnersmanager.com/products.htm

It looks really good.