Commission Junction

A lot has been discussed about affiliate marketing on the web. A lot many individuals & companies have become millionaires using successful affiliate marketing strategies. The web is full of suggestions, tips and software for making affiliate PPC work. Affiliate marketing consist of an advertiser and a publisher. There are many companies who are actively promoting affiliate marketing and one such company about which we will discuss today in this article is Commission Junction:

Commission Junction is popularly known as CJ. Commission Junction was formed in the year 1998 in Santa Barbara California. The company has more than 1500 satisfied clients. Leading names include Home Depot, Yahoo, eBay etc. Commission Junction is a ValueClick company (from the year 2003 onwards) and is a leading name in affiliate marketing, Search Marketing & other Media related services today. The popularity of Commission Junction is due to their competitive pricing offered to their affiliates. Apart from USA, the company also has offices in some European countries.

The Modus Operandi of Commission Junction: Commission Junction works by giving affiliates chance to earn extra bucks by doing online advertisement for others. Once you join Commission Junction you will get plenty of opportunity in the form of advertisers who are looking for ways to get more clicks for their solution. Commission Junction is able to attract hundreds of affiliates every week, owing to their commission paying model as well as their well implemented process. As an affiliate one gets commission for referring new people to join Commission Junction and also get a percentage of every commission earned by the person referred by you.

A major advantage of using CJ is that you get one cheque for all your work combined and it is Commission Junction which pays you (payment record is also good). For other affiliate networks you get paid for each work and there you have to cross the minimum payment amount to get the cheque. Commission Junction programs are created not just with PPC on mind but also for other activities such as pay per lead and sale. Commission Junction also helps its affiliates & advertisers by providing them with tools to track and report the work done.

Commission Junction offers CJ Access solution for small to medium sized advertisers to find a global list of publishers and software tools. It also has another solution known as CJ Vantage for medium to large advertisers. For those taking CJ Vantage solution,  Commission Junction provides a dedicated Account Manager to help the advertiser for all further activities.