Making money with Commission Junction.

This post is a playoff of my original Ebay + Craigslist Post. Instead of using Ebay, your CJ login will link to other companies. Here's how it works:

For new users, start with Step 1, for existing CJ members, skip to step 3:

Step 1: Visit www.cj.com, follow the promts in creating an account.

Step 2: Make sure to find out where your PID is located, see corresponding image:

Step 3: You will want to find a company that sells a product you know about, in my case, I work for a large credit card company, so if I wanted to pitch say, a credit monitoring service, it would be easy for me. You can find the companies that CJ works with under the "Get Links" tab on top.

Step 4: By clicking on the company name on the get links icon, you will see their payout structure, find one that suits you and click the apply for program link.

FYI: Depending on the company, you may get approved immediately, or reviewed.

Step 5: This step is optional: Register a domain name for your affiliate link(s). Which would you rather click www.monitoryourcredit.com or http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2737229-10432997? My point exactly.

Step 6: Now what you can do, take this new link to somewhere like yahoo! answers, or really any Q and A forums and answer questions about your topic.

Q: Hey, I just went to apply for a car loan and I was told I have an account with xyz credit company. I'm afraid I might be a victim of ID Theft, what should I do?
A: Hi, Soandso, What you should do, contact the company the card was opened with and tell them you didn't apply for that card, follow their requests, they may need a police report or something, and then you might want to check out www.monitoryourcredit.com and check out the offer from Equifax so you can make sure you're on top of your credit report.

Step 6: You may not need to register a domain if the forum you are posting at has HTML options, many times you can simply just replace the link with words with the code: < href =" link "> Name< /a >. By doing this, you can save yourself some cash and simply say "Visit Equifax and see what they have to offer."

Another FYI, make sure you know the rules and regulations for your company, the last thing you want to do is find a marketing idea only to learn its against the Terms of Use. Many companies will not allow you to register adwords with the companies name or something of the like.

Again, this is hardly the only use for Commission Junction nor are they the only affiliate marketing company available, my frequent viewers may just like it because you can try multiple ideas with one company.