My Profile Description From CJ Affiliate

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I have recently applied and been accepted into three Affiliate Networks:

  • Clickbank
  • CJ Affiliate
  • ShareASale

There were several members have had reported rejections or delays in getting accepted by these three affiliate networks. Hence, I decided to share the approach I am using that could be of help to members like myself, who have yet to build significant traffic.

What Advertisers Are Looking For

No, they are not looking for big signeage like the one's in Times Square! They are looking for WORDS that describe how you are going to help them with sales.

CJ Affiliate has very specific guidelines to help affiliate marketers do a good job for advertisers who they call their companies, to accept them. They state that advertisers are looking for affiliate marketers who have a clear marketing plan that highlights how they plan to generate the traffic necessary for reasonable sales..

This can be a challenge for affiliate marketers like me who are relatively new and still working on building traffic.

I felt this required an approach that admitted this situation, and still provided sufficient information for advertisers to feel such newbies are worth enlisting. You have to start somewhere.

No doubt there will be advertisers who are only looking for affiliate marketers who are well-established and already have significant traffic going through their websites. There is nothing you can do to prevent rejection from them. However, one can always apply again when one's website traffic has increased.

So what does a newbie do?

My CJ Affiliate Profile Description

I wanted to share what I wrote for myself to show what techniques I used to handle my situation. This is just a guide. Your approach will be different to mine, but if it makes sense, you can use elements of my approach to address not having much traffic. In order to comply with the rules of Wealthy Affiliate I used the name of my website rather than its URL. You can find that on my Profile Page if you want to see it.

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My website name is Affiliate Marketing For Leaders. I write regular blog posts to introduce and educate readers to affiliate marketing and to promote products and services I am greatly interested in. The methods I use are honest reviews and comparisons that show how a particular product will solve a customers problems or satisfy a need.

I make regular posts on my Facebook, YouTube and Instagram sites where I introduce readers to my website blogs. I built up a following of 13,000 subscribers and 8,000,000 views on my YouTube Channel that I originally targeted to music shows. Although not directly connected with affiliate marketing I am transitioning this channel to affiliate marketing to take advantage of this subscriber base.

In the world of affiliate marketing I am a relative newbie. I am learning how to write relevant and engaging content, as well as how to use SEO techniques in my articles as well as in WordPress to rank high in the search engines. I make sure all my posts are indexed. Many of my posts have ranked on the 1st pages of Google, Bing and Yahoo. My traffic is steadily rising. My affiliate marketing training is provided by Wealthy Affiliate, who in my opinion is the best in the business. They have been active in this field for over 14 years and have trained over 2,000,000 members. Many of their graduates have evolved to earn six and seven figure annual incomes.

My goal is to have sufficient traffic and conversions to provide a steady and increasing flow of customers for the advertisers who partner with me. At the moment I am using purely organic means to drive traffic. Once I am making consistent sales I shall be using this income to leverage my business higher through PPC and paid ads only for those merchants that permit it. Clearly I am not there yet. I expect to be in this position in 2020.

This is serious business and I am working hard to making it an outstanding success, through writing blog posts regularly. I am looking forward to my relationship with CJ Affiliate Network and the advertisers I will be working with to market their products and services.

Although my niche is about teaching visitors what steps they need to take to make money online, my objective is to show how this is actually done using real results. From time to time, especially for Holiday Promotions, I will promote products that can be given as Holiday gifts. These experiences will show how marketing these products does indeed make money online. They will provide great teaching moments too.

I thank the CJ Affiliate Network for giving me this opportunity.

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Closing Thoughts

What do you think? Is there anything I could have done differently to make a better impression?

So far I have had approval for one company in each of Clickbank and ShareASale. When I get the results of the three companies pending approval on CJ Affiliate I will write about that here in another blog post.

I apologize for the low use of pictures in this blog. That was intentional as a profile description usually doesn't allow pictures.

Cheers!

Edwin

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Recent Comments

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Great post, Edwin. Thanks for sharing.
Have a great weekend,
Mickey

Thanks so much Mickey!

Edwin

Great post. Thanks for your help Edwin.
Janet

You're very welcome Janet. All the best to you.

Edwin

Great post, thanks for sharing.

You're most welcome.

Edwin

Great information
TIM

Thanks Tim.

Edwin

This is a very thorough letter of application. I appreciate your sharing it with us. It gives a great example of how to do this, one that I will use to craft my own letter from if you don't mind.
Blessings

Linda

Glad you appreciated my letter. I'll be happy if it gets me some approvals, Three still pending.I feel that under the circumstances I did a decent job.

All the best to you.

Edwin

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