WordPress Meets Marketing:Affiliates Management Plugins

If you have been on the web for a while; you’ve probably signed up for a couple of affiliate programs to make an additional income from your site. Now it is a different story: It is your turn, you have a good, in demand product and you need to get your own Affiliates System up and running:

• You can go the Script way

Upload an Affiliates Script to your web hosting account, install it, configure it, administer it 24/7 and keep it in good shape (You know; PHP conflicts, Tech Support headache…), OR

• Install a simple WordPress Affiliates Plugin and be done with it

Turn Key solution;  No script, no messy code and you can administer it from your WordPress dashboard!

 Your choice should be obvious!

If you do a research on “Affiliates Plugins” you will end up with plugins that are geared for WordPress bloggers who wants to be affiliates for some product or another,  and hardly any for Affiliates Management. I found a lone Affiliates Management Plugin:

WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin

Author Description

“The ‘WordPress Affiliate Platform’ is an easy to use WordPress plugin for affiliate recruitment, management and tracking that can be used on any WordPress blog/site. This plugin lets you run your own affiliate campaign/program and allows you to reward (pay commission) your affiliates for referred sales. The admin can upload/configure banners/links which the affiliates can use on their blog/site to drive traffic to your site. All the clicks, leads, sales etc are tracked by this plugin.”

Features:

• Easy Installation
• Real Time Reporting: All data (clicks, sales, commissions) are tracked, computed and displayed in real-time
• Two Tier Affiliate Structure
• Can be integrated with a Number of Shopping Carts
• Unlimited Affiliates

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This plugin is simple, easy to install, activate and use, with right to the point clean interface and no fluff!

Word of advice:

Your affiliates are your Sales Force; be genirous with the commision your offer them and reward them for good referrals, supply them with the necessary tools to promote your products (Banners, Text Links, Videos, Audio, E-mail templates…etc) and the support if they needed it, and watch your sales grow!

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