Useful Affiliate Programs to Earn Money

For bloggers, forum moderator and administrators, community managers, there are many means to get the community running. Wikipedia shows the power of the popularity with donations. For smaller communities, advertising may be a good choice. There is another option, i.e. to be an affiliate member of some programs, and recommend tools to the community members.

Basic differences between an affiliate and a reseller:
An affiliate does not need to pay for the tools, and would be the middle agent that recommends the product to visitors. Affiliate will get the commission as soon as there is an order driven. The registration info is sent to the buyer. No registration code is transferred to affiliate.
A reseller may pay to the publisher before getting the registration info, or with payment schedule as discussed. A reseller will get the registration info and then send to his client.

Here I would like to introduce some of the affiliate programs that are commonly used by many companies.
RegNow affiliate program:
A platform with a lot of affiliate members for software sales, owned by Digital River. The main commission is sales referral. That means only when there is an order, can the related regnow affiliate gets commission.

eSellerate affiliate program:
A platform for software sales. Somewhat like RegNow, but with different control panel.
Avangate affiliate program:
A platform for software slaes. Somewhat like RegNow, but with different control panel.
CJ affiliate program:
A platform with many kinds of stuff. Software providers (described as advertiser on cj.com) like Adobe, Roxio, Nero and Cyberlink use this platform. There are different types of items, books, hardware, jewelry, shoes, rentals, accessories, etc. The affiliate is described as publisher on cj.com.

oneNetworkDirect affiliate program:
The control panel is somewhat like CJ, offering the impression statistics. However, it is owned by Digital River. It offers software and digital products.

shareit affiliate program:
A platform for software. Element5 and shareit use the same platform, which means if you register on shareit, you do not need to register on element 5 then.
Plimus affiliate program:
A platform for software and digital products. The control panel is easy for checking sales. If there is an order, you will find the record once you log in.

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