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Top Associate
and Referral
Sales Programs

This page features websites of a few associate programs, referral Internet sites, and affiliate program directories.

These sites pay you money for referrals or sales. For the referral programs that I participate in, see http://www.JohnKremerSentMe.com.

Please note that this is a personal list, based on the sole judgment of John Kremer. If you'd like to nominate a referral program, associate sales program, pay-per-click program, or other website paying program, please email John Kremer. I know that I have missed some sites I truly would like to add to this list. Your site might be one of those. Thanks for your support. — John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books and editor of the Book Marketing Tip of the Week newsletter

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Affiliate Program Resource Sites

AdGuide — Offers a listing of affiliate programs.

Affiliate Match — This directory features affiliate programs and also provides information on how to make money with your website. Check out their newsletter as well.

Affiliate Thing — A directory of almost 1,000 affiliate programs.

AffiliateTip.com — Provides tips on running and marketing affiliate programs, or joining and using them.

Affiliate Trade Links Network — Trade links with other affiliate programs.

Associate Programs Directory — You can earn commissions by referring customers to other web sites. This directory gives you hundreds of programs to choose from. In addition, they publish a weekly newsletter about such programs and feature the Top 10 Associate Programs, information on how to set up an associate program of your own, and information on how to build lasting affiliate networks. To subscribe to Associate Programs Newsletter put SUBSCRIBE in the BODY of an email to: AssociatePrograms@oaknetpub.com. They feature more than 2,500 affiliate programs.

Associate-It — A directory of affiliate programs. Associate-it's fully searchable and categorized database includes reviews, ratings and description of more than 1100 affiliate programs. Also features lots of free information relating to affiliate programs and website promotion.

Bookstore Associates Discussion List — This discussion list features tips for operating successful online affiliate bookstores.

Commission Junction — Another website that allows you to design and operate an associate program for your website. You can also sign up for many website associate programs here.

1st Free Affiliate Programs — Best affiliate programs, software & training. A neatly organized assortment of the Net's top affiliate programs, plus affiliate tracking software and training resources.

GeoCities — Home of more than 3,000,000 personal sites, GeoCities is now offering to handle all the details of affiliate network relationships for its member sites. It may expand this service to outside sites as well.

Making Money — This site rates affiliate/associate programs based on user ratings and comments. Also offers other info on how to make money with the Internet.

Refer-It — This is a search engine for referral, associate, and other revenue sharing programs. It currently features about 200 sites, each reviewed and rated, with a description and a link to the sign-up page for affiliates. It also includes information on how to set up your website referral program. In addition, it also includes a list of the top ten affiliate programs.

Sponsor Directory — A guide to generating revenue from your website.

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Affiliate Programs: A Sampling

Amazon.com — This bookselling site pioneered affiliate programs. It now has more than 300,000 associate sites.

American Greetings — Sells online greeting cards.

Art.com — This site sells framed art. It has more than 3,000 affiliates.

AutoWeb — Sells new and used automobiles.

Barnesandnoble.com — This bookselling site now has more than 100,000 affiliates.

Blue Squirrel Software — Their ClickBook software allows you to print a list of information, stories, products, etc. in double-sided booklets, brochures, greeting cards, etc.

Book Closeouts — This site sells inexpensive books that have gone out of print, been remaindered, or were slightly damaged. You can buy books up to 90% off retail.

CarPrices.com — This site allows you to earn commission without actually selling anything. You just have to persuade people to ask for a free report from CarPrices.com.

CD Now — The largest Internet music retailer, is making a major push to sign up referral partners (which accounted for 10% of their business in 1997, or about $100,000 in additional sales every month). CD Now offers two deals: one for small sites, a cosmic credit program (a simple link) that offers a 5% commission, and a second deal for larger sites, a merchandising partnership that offers negotiated cash deals. CD Now currently has 207,000 cosmic credit partners and many merchandising partners.

Child Secure — Sells baby care products.

Click Trade — This site provides a way for you to pay per click for sites referring web surfers to your site.

Commission Junction — Provides tools for operating successful revenue sharing programs.

Dell.com — Dell Computers is now offering a 1% commission on any sales resulting from people you send their way.

The Electronic Newsstand — Sells magazine subscriptions.

Epage Classifieds — Once they accept your application for their commission program, you can enter ads on EPage Classifieds for other people, as a business that places people's ads for them and charges them a certain fee for the service (5% discount, higher with sufficient volume). You collect a fee from your customers and pay EPage (minus the discount) on a monthly basis for the ads that you take out on Epage on their behalf. You can take out any type of ad from an $8 classified to a $500 sponsorship. They have agents placing over 20 ads per month. For details, go to URL: http://www.ep.com/h/misc/agent.html.

Fogdog Sports — Sells sporting goods.

Free Trials — For every unique visitor you send to their free offer site, they will pay you. Any site can participate, no traffic minimums, no pre-requisites! Just visit the following URL, fill out the short form, and start collecting: http://freetrials.netcreations.com/pennysignup.

Garden.com — Sells gardening products.

GreenTree Nutrition — This site currently has about 300 associates that it pays from 12% to 20% on the sale of vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional products.

Hand Technologies — An IBM business partner, Hand is a pioneer in marketing computer products direct to the home via a team of home-based sales consultants. They provide the best, brand-name products in home computing and follow up with first-class service and support after the sale. You will receive training, sales and marketing skills. Part-time or full-time, with or without Team Building, the choice is yours. Recommended by Sharon Souter, Independent Consultant; email: disc@sunlink.net.

i/us — Sells graphics-related software and products.

LookSmart — Enhance your site with great content and improve chances your users will return — become a LookSmart search partner with SmartLinks. You choose the categories, colors and other features that most suit your site and your users. In addition, LookSmart will promote your site. You will receive 500 ads for placing a panel on your site and 1 ad for every 2 that your users see when they visit LookSmart. They also provide an array of free tools for web developers, including community building features such as free chat rooms, guestbooks, and discussion forums.

Music Boulevard — Earn a commission on every CD they sell.

NetCreations — This email list management company offers 25% of the profit from each referral name rented for one year.

One & Only Internet Personals — A personals classifieds site. For more about their associates program, go to URL: http://www.one-and-only.com/associates.

OneCopy.com — This site offers a 5% commission on sales of their 3,000 titles, one copy at a time. For more info, email Jim Sims at sims@onecopy.com.

Photos to Go — Earn a commission on stock photo sales.

QuinStreet — 650-595-6210. This site offers a specialty retail affiliate program that focuses strictly on merchants that are in the direct selling world. Because they deal with direct selling companies, their commissions and lead fees tend to be higher than most affiliate offerings

Reel.com — Sells videos.

Select Source — This program allows you to set up a catalog of items from various merchants who have stores on this site. To find out more about this program, go to http://www.goselectsource.com/affiliate.

TechWave's Try-and-Buy Affiliate Program — This program offers hundreds of software titles which can be downloaded for a free trial. For details on their affiliate program, go to http://www.tryandbuy.com/signup/cmg2.

Travel Now — Sells hotel reservations, airline trips, and car rentals.

Uproar's Trivia Blitz — Not only does Trivia Blitz provide free content for your site, Uproar pays cash for referring players to them. After becoming a Trivia Blitz Associate, you will be paid 50¢ for each player that registers for Uproar via the Trivia Blitz applet on your site and plays a primary game on the Uproar site. These free games include Cosmo's Conundrum, Puzzle A-Go-Go, Picture This, and CBS SportsLine Team Trivia. To learn more about their associates program, go to URL: http://www.uproar.com/webdevelopers/earn_cash.html.

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