The information you’ve provided is really useful..

Thank you so much..

Regards,

Shehan Noel..

With your own affiliate program running with your own script, aren’t you responsible for collecting tax information from your affiliates?

This work does not have to be done with clickbank.

-Adam

Thank you for your explanation of the difference between hosted and self-hosted affiliate programs.

My conclusions are as follows:

* IF you want the BLACK-TIE of all self-hosted affiliate program scripts;

* IF you plan to be a MARKETER for the long haul;

* IF you plan on doing a LARGE VOLUME of business;

* IF you want to RUB SHOULDERS with some of the RICHEST and most POWERFUL marketers in the industry;

… and IF you would like to get a $1500 script for FREE…

You would be crazy NOT to order Butterfly Marketing 2.0 on March 24, 2009 at 12 Noon.

Thank you,
Richard Howell

P.S. And of course… I plan to order through YOUR link, as usual, @bobtheteacher.

But, as an affiliate, I’ve found the Fantasos dashboard to be relatively confusing to navigate through; so I haven’t set it up on the front.

I agree that it would be great for me to have one login for my affiliate programs (it takes a while to sign up to all 20…), but one thing I do like is it makes it more likely for the person promoting my stuff to have actually used some part of it.

IDevAffiliate seems to be good at giving people the option to point their affiliate link to whatever page they want, which is pretty cool.

Bob

i definitely prefer self hosted alternatives for many of the reasons you mention, but i want my clients to log into one affiliate control panel for ALL affilate products.

also, you’ve done great standardizing on BFM – but sometimes, some of the other alternatives are better suited (bulk, feature-set, etc). that would require my affiliate to navigate multiple accounts and multiple user interfaces, and multiple capability sets among all the affilaite programs.

not to mention, i have to learn how use all the different feature sets, and can’t standardize in a way that streamlines my operations.

for that reason (and because it centralizes all my operations) i prefer to use fanatasos. on top of all the operational benefits, it’s proven over time to be the most reliable affiliate tracking i’ve EVER used.

if you don’t mind a hosted solution with (reasonable) monthly fees, there are number of fantasos resellers that make this service available (can’t think off the top of my head, but just google fantasos, you’ll find a bunch).

if you want a self-hosted, highly reliable affiliate tracking script i’ve found idevaffilate and post affiliate pro to meet all the criteria i describe above, and you can get started for somewhere around $100-200 one-time cost.

Lou

John – I deliberately didn’t talk about $7 scripts and RAP because I would never recommend them. They turn the affiliate into the customer service for the products being sold, and I won’t recommend that. Also, with RAP, with alternating payments, you’re not giving out accurate % of commissions unless you have an even number of sales.

I have not seen Frank’s script, but I know him well and trust it’s well thought out.

There are also scripts that are more powerful than the 2 I mentioned, such as Memberspeed, Fantasos, etc. But I’d rather not encourage paralysis from analysis and hit on those I’m familiar with as well as those most easily supported with online training.

Bob