CB vs, CJ - Really that much diff? Which is better & Why?

3oltan

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1. I'm a publisher within a few networks, currently utilizing most of my slate with clickbank before branching out. I'm looking at CJ but hearing some not so great things about it, before I put my foot in my mouth I want to hear from other publishers that perhaps utilize both.

2. What's the full setup-fee/process. CB=$50 per product setup to show in their marketplace, otherwise you can add 500 products under 1 account. Also - are there any ongoing fees either monthly/annually/etc. I have 4 products in mind to bring over, what kind of damage i$ that?

3. How many points do they take? I hear 30%, correct? If so does it come off the total price, the aff portion or the merch portion?

4. CB is only 1-tier, I need at least 3, is CJ multi-teared? I hear affiliates must apply and can be screened and rejected - seems odd, can you smell a spammer that far away? Is their system full of holes hence they need this protection? With CB anyone promotes anything.

5. Does CJ encourage you to stay in contact with your affiliates and vice-versa? I love training and making n00bs into pros however with CB I cannot contact any of my affiliates through their system, and they do this for security, which i see as a wise step for them, but poor for vendors as we manually aggregate/train/centralize/retain outside their environment.

6. Does anyone here ever act as a liason? I would potentially be interested in having able bodies help recreate the network of products I run for use with CJ and perhaps paydotcom as they are multi-tier... Perhaps there are others as well that can address all of the above, feel free to suggest them.

7. Do any of you publishers have your products on more that 2 aff networks? i.e. if I had all my products on CJ, CB and PDC, what could be the drawback other than splitting my aff groups into 3 learning curves from my main aff resource center?

Thanks in advance, and I hope this thread will help other publishers as well that have been on the fence about these networks.
 


Last CJ program I set up (a few years ago) cost over $7K, the last one I set up with CB (cost less than $150.00 including domain name and hosting.

Unless you are going to be doing a large number of products, like a retail store, CJ takes a lot more time to recover your investment.
 
Ya, what's up... why don't more affiliates use CJ... kinda baffled by that... everyone promotes NeverBlue, Copeac, and the likes...
 
CJ is for people who want to earn their money in a few months time. CB is for people who want to get paid today! Plus CB looks after it's affiliates better.
 
CJ has a HUGE network of coupons/deals websites and PPC affiliates - the reach of the network is a huge plus over ShareASale and the ease-of-use/interface is a huge plus over Linkshare, with similar types of affiliates.

That said, CJ is expensive. Not as expensive as LinkShare, but pretty expensive. Setup fees, $500 minimum in fees/month, 30% on top of affiliate commissions to CJ (i.e. $10 to the affiliate, $3 to CJ). I've managed a number of programs on CJ & the network is fantastic. If you've got a good brand, need a high level of control over who promotes you & how you are promoted, or need to work with a large product catalog, and can think you can pull the volume needed to cover CJ's fees, there's no better place to be.

It's all about finding what's right for your specific product. Most products in CJ wouldn't do well in CB, and vice versa.
 
Ya, what's up... why don't more affiliates use CJ... kinda baffled by that... everyone promotes NeverBlue, Copeac, and the likes...

- terminating inactive affiliates which is fucking stupid, there's still money in my account when they terminated mine without any warnings
- 90% of the programs will auto reject you when you apply, have to apply to programs individually (contacting merchants etc) big waste of time
- payment terms
- customer service is horrible