Sunday, November 23, 2008

5 Top Tips to Choose the Best Affiliate Marketing Software.

By Asem Eltaher

Online affiliate marketing is definitely a robust business model to make money online at home. However, well-chosen affiliate marketing software can sky rocket your online success since it formulates the back bone of your online home business. Nevertheless, among the thousands of available affiliate marketing software, how can one choose the right one?

So, here are the top 5 aspects to consider when you need to choose your software:

1. Your vendor must be reputable.

Unfortunately, the internet nowadays is full of one-night companies that claim the best experience and know how, but they are really nothing. Therefore, if you want to target the best affiliate marketing software:

Target a robust affiliate software vendor that can show you a proven record of a serious previous work with other customers over the past years and not over the past days.

Check out at least six online references using, for example, an affiliate marketing blog. Remember that vendors provide only their best testimonials. You might be surprised to find a different story when you call other customers that are not included in the testimonials list.

2. Check their customer support service.

Proper software vendor is a short-term goal but your long-term goal is to work together with this vendor as it would be needed some when to adapt your software and need your vendor's support. So, contact them many times and ask for more info or a free trial of their software and see how they would react.

3. The bigger an internet marketing software, the better.

Small affiliate software companies, to compete with larger established companies, must offer software at very low prices, or they even offer sometimes a free software that can harm your computer.

The problem is that servicing one highly successful client can consume virtually all of the human resources of a small company leaving the other clients out in the cold. The more deadly problem is that smaller companies tend to go out of business without warning.

4. Creating your own reports must be a feature of your software vendor.

Unfortunately, most of the affiliate software vendors force you to live with an automatic generated report with no changes from your side. However, a good reputable vendor should provide you with the capability to generate a custom report.

5. Compare features.

A wise buyer is the one who doesn't buy the first product they like. Rather, they explore further to see other related vendors to see how good or bad the features offered by the first vendor. Then, ask your favorite vendor to tell you what their unique features are. - 16003

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