Affiliate By Night

Initial Reactions to Our Affiliate Networks

So far Nate and I have signed up with four different affiliate networks. We’ve yet to really make any money with any of them so that’s not the way I’m going to structure this review. Instead, I’m going to cover my initial reactions with each network. I’m a very experience-and-customer-service-driven sort of guy, so that’s what really made or broke each network (so far) for me.

1. Neverblue Ads

So far, in my opinion, we’ve had a great experience with Neverblue – the best of the bunch, in fact. I spoke with our affiliate manager for the first time yesterday afternoon and he was very friendly. I told him about our plan to pick up affiliate marketing in our spare time after work, and about the blog. He was very enthusiastic and assured me that he would help us reach our goals and thought we could get where we wanted to be very quickly. He even went so far as to recommend a specific campaign to us which he said has been performing well lately and has a high average EPC (earnings per click) so with it, we’d be able to build a decent amount of capital quickly, which we can reinvest in larger campaigns in the coming weeks. If our initial experience is at all representative of our manager and the company as a whole, my guess is we’ll be working with Neverblue Ads very heavily for a long time to come.

Click here to sign up with Neverblue.

2. MarketLeverage

I decided we should try and sign up for MarketLeverage.com when I saw the awesome gift package they sent Chad from the CDF Networks blog. Again, I guess I’m a sucker for customer service like that, but hey – it worked. I had my first interaction with my MarketLeverage affiliate manager this morning. She was very friendly and we had a nice chat while she signed us up. She promised to give me a call during the coming week when she said she’ll have more time to get to know us and help us get started. So I guess I’ll wait and pass judgment until after that conversation, but so far so good. I like their site – it’s easy to understand and easy to navigate; and I liked that she is a she. And that, based on what I’ve seen elsewhere around the web, they appear to be very good to their affiliates. It means a LOT to me to be more than just another affiliate making the network money. I sure hope it’s not long before Nate and I receive our own MarketLeverage care package!

Click here to sign up with MarketLeverage.

3. ClickBooth

My experiences with ClickBooth have been pretty similar to those with Neverblue. Our affiliate manager got in touch with me right away and set up a conference call with me and Nate so he could welcome us to the program and answer any questions we had (and we had a lot). He wasn’t quite as friendly as the manager from Neverblue but he was still very knowledgeable and helpful. He didn’t give us an exact campaign to start with, but did sort of point us in the right direction. ClickBooth’s website is easy to understand and well laid out. They have a TON of offers to choose from – everything from low risk (low reward) email and zip submits for beginners like us, to very high paying Cost Per Sale campaigns. And they’re all broken down by category and type, so you’re not wading through hundreds of offers you’re not ready to compete in before you find something you feel you can tackle. I’m definitely looking forward to working with ClickBooth more in the future.

Click here to sign up for ClickBooth.

4. PepperjamNETWORK

So far, of the four, I’ve been the least impressed with Pepperjam. I like the layout of their website the best and it’s very easy to check out all of the campaigns they have available. But that’s where the usability stops. Especially for a network which claims to be a “network for affiliates by affiliates” their customer service has been really sub par. I have yet to talk to a live person and no one has bothered to contact us to help us get started. I really feel like just another affiliate here. While that might change if our earnings were to go up, it’s not like we had made anything at any of the other three networks and we were contacted by someone right away. The vast majority of their campaigns are Pay Per Sale, too, which are harder to break into (in my opinion). Unless we find a campaign with Pepperjam that is too good to pass up, I would have to say it will be our last resort. But, if you still want to give it a try yourself,

Click here to sign up with the PepperjamNETWORK.

As we progress with each network, these initial impressions certainly may change, and I expect I’ll be doing some more in depth reviews and analysis of each network as we move forward, so be sure and check back. And if you sign up with any of the networks yourself, please let us know your thoughts and reactions!

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