Affiliate marketing can be an amazingly profitable way to develop a home business. The majority of new affiliate markets spend a lot of time working through the trial and error of finding products, choosing affiliate programs and learning how to market their affiliate links effectively.
by RyanCampbell


Affiliate marketing can be an amazingly profitable way to develop a home business. The majority of new affiliate markets spend a lot of time working through the trial and error of finding products, choosing affiliate programs and learning how to market their affiliate links effectively.

One of the major affiliate sites on the internet is ClickBank. Their huge marketplace and massive amounts of affiliate products across every possible niche market make it attractive for many internet marketers. However, despite its massive size, there are a few inherent problems with ClickBank.

Finding alternative affiliate managers to promote alongside your ClickBank promotions or instead of them is how PayGear came into view. Here are some benefits of PayGear over ClickBank.

The Merchant Side of PayGear

1. Youre able to open your PayGear merchant account at no charge. ClickBank charges a set up fee to begin selling products.

2. The moment you submit your products to PayGear, theyre approved instantly. ClickBank have a quality control system in place that means the products available on their marketplace arent just flimsy excuses for products.

3. PayGear allows merchants to sell both physical and digital products. ClickBank has a limitation on selling only digitally delivered goods and products.

4. Receive your payments in real time. Why wait for your payment, I just never understood this.

5. PayGears fees and charges for transactions is lower in comparison to ClickBanks fees.

PayGear Affiliate Facilities

1. Affiliate commissions are allowable up to a massive 95% with PayGear, while ClickBank has a limitation of only 75% as their maximum commission rate.

2. You have the ability to track all sales in real time.

3. Affiliates are handed ready-to-go marketing tools from each merchant they choose to promote.

4. Your payout can be made via PayPal if you choose, or you can request for a check to be posted out. ClickBank makes new affiliates wait until after theyve received at least 3 paper checks before theyll allow an electronic payment request to be entered.

5. You can purchase a product through your own affiliate link. This came as a surprise to me as most sites do not let you do that.

I would have to conclude that PayGear's positives outweigh their negatives, but some of the things I did not like PayGear include.

I am not very fond of waiting a month to get paid. Even though PayGear does offer a weekly auto billing most vendors do not take advantage of this. I prefer to always be paid either weekly or at least bi-weekly like ClickBank.

Other than these couple of downsides, in my opinion PayGear has much more to offer marketers than ClickBank and by looking at them I can tell that they will continue to grow huge and offer their affiliates a reliable way to make money online.

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