Never earned a cent with CJ.

I think I hold a record of not having earned a cent with CJ (Commission Junction) even though I became their affiliate in 2005. Well, may be a year later; I only have a vague memory.

Since my feeble efforts for promoting my CJ affiliate offers did not generate a single sale, I was soon ejected out of their list of affiliates.

Again after two years gap, I registered with CJ with a different email id and got accepted. As usual, most of the merchants rejected my request to be their affiliates for various reasons.

So I gave up and did not respond to several notices from CJ. Finally, I was thrown out.

Just for the fun of it, I just now tried to log into my CJ affiliate dashboard. I saw that my account was deactivated and if I want, I can again re-activate it.

Oh, no, not again! 

To become an healthy affiliate, you need…

Even if I wanted to become an affiliate, I don’t think I could have been a successful affiliate marketer in spite of writing about so many health related products that include acne cure, slimming pills, anti aging solutions and so on.

To become an affiliate on paper is so easy; you just fill up an online form and hit the submit button and you have become an affiliate. What is the next step?

One requires extensive training in affiliate marketing to earn some money. Mere affiliate tools like banner ads and text link ads pasted on your site won’t get you any sales. Your affiliate ads can generate a few clicks a day but the conversion rate would be zero unless one takes affiliate marketing seriously.

If you want to join an affiliate network, make sure you get full promotional materials that will at least give you a head start.