Affiliate programs for kids

[pokertramp]

I figured someone here may be able to help My 15 year old nephew wants to get into the affiliate business. He is learning web design, he does a great job, and is very creative. He is interested in trading cards and wanted to build a site that would send his customers to card trading sites, or similar, anyone know if there are affiliate programs for this sort of thing?
Any other suggestions for him, something legal that he could possibly make a few $ with?

[Renee]

I found a few sites that might be handy:

BCW Supplies
https://www.bcwsupplies.com/affiliates/

Online Sports:
http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/affiliates.html

Short Porch
http://www.shortporch.com/Affiliates_ep_58-1.html

PokeOrder
http://www.pokeorder.com/

The first 3 I'm assuming he is trading sports cards..

And the last one in case he is looking at Pokemon or something like that

I just typed in a few things related to "buy sports cards online affiliate" into Google. Pretty easy to find

Good luck!

[pokertramp]

thanks Renee
I did a google search too, found others, so will take a look at those. I was mostly hoping for someone with experience in that area to recommend some but these may work

[Renee]

No probs

It's funny once you get out of our industry how different the affiliate world can be. There isn't another like ours I don't think.

Another place you may want to look is cj.com or commissionmonster.com. They might have something there..
Also check out ebay. Amazon also has a pretty good affiliate program.

If you need any help just let me know

[eaton2003]

Personally if I was him I would stick to just two programs and learn the art of specializing. Avoid CJ as there is a chance he will not send enough traffic in the given time period and be kicked off.

[JuliaS]

I'd recommend starting with Amazon affiliates -they are pretty user friendly and would probably offer a lot of products that his demographic is looking for.

I agree with Simon's advice about CJ - they are the biggest retail network out there and have a ton of great brands, but it can be really discouraging when they close your account after 3 months because you haven't referred any sales.

Cheers,

[universal4]

I totally agree that CJ isn't good for newer and smaller affiliates.

Back in the early days of the internet and affil;iate marketing CJ was a great company to partner with, but when "Lex Cisney" the original owner developer of the network sold out due to health reasons, CJ just completly forgot it's roots and started dumping affiliates that didn't meet their "QUOTA" and they have NOT been on my recommended list ever since.

If a program isn't good for the small affiliate, then it's not a good recommendation for ANY affiliate.

You may want to check out ABestWeb, as it is a good resource for programs and info.

http://www.abestweb.com/

Rick
Universal4

[Renee]

Ive had an affiliate site for about 3-4 years now and rarely send any sales.. definitely not regularly, because I dont work on the site like i used to...

But my account has never been closed...

Maybe you guys were just unlucky?

[pokertramp]

thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the feedback! I will get him started

[bonusbeast]

I would maybe start him off with Amazon affiliate program, as he could just list the products with reviews on his site and refer them to Amazon for the purchase.

[TheGooner]

Have any of the people recommending Amazon actually worked for them as an affiliate? I WOULD NOT recommend Amazon's affiliate system as it is a pretty poor return of effort.

Typical percentage is just 5-6% of sales value, which usually equates to 50-80 cents per book. We've sold 200 books or so over the last few years - for around GBP 120 (about USD 180).

I'm not sure that will entice your nephew into the business long term.

For whatever reason, whether it's the short cookie duration (24 hours) or failures in the checkout procedure - I've found that many referred clicks do not convert into sales revenue - despite the fact the person did eventually purchase the item.

I estimate than only about 33%-50% of total sales get recorded onto an afffiliates account - based on an unscientific survey through my forum that I did regarding forum members buying books after some rather unsuccessful promotions.

[villa10]

Clickbank is great for affiliate programs on Web services, education, learning, marketing and so on. Teens and very young people have to avoid our industry. The gambling sale is for adults.

[pokertramp]

thanks guys, he's building a site now and going to use some of your suggestions.

villa10, I would never allow him to get involved in our industry for many years to come!

TheGooner, I agree about Amazon, I know when I had the forum, we might of made $100 over several years and that was selling 100s of poker books, shirts and other goods. It's ridiculous, but for the time being to get him to understand the business and play around a bit, I think he'll give it a go and just give a small space to Amazon.

[universal4]

To be honest I like how Amazon allows you to sell the books.

You create a link that is the exact same for every single book, only the isbn number changes in the link and when clicked lands you at their site, with that book selected and other books below as a cross sell...

If anyone ever needs an example of this, just let me know....

I agree tough to make any decent money with them....

Rick
Universal4