Are you a product owner who is looking for a reliable affiliate network to find hungry affiliates who are always looking for good products to sell and earn their commissions?

In this article, we will talk about one of the biggest affiliate networks in the industry which you can join today for your affiliate marketing needs, may it be for earning commission as an affiliate or get help to sell your product as a merchant.

The network we will talk about here is, ShareASale (now a part of Awin), an affiliate network founded in the year of 2000. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States; ShareASale has thousands of offers and products listed on its website, out of which you can definitely find some golden nuggets to promote and make some good money from it.

ShareASale with its best customer support team active all round the clock, helps all of its affiliates and merchants to earn the best possible money out of their traffic.

How does ShareASale help its merchants?

•  ShareASale has a training tool, ‘Welcome kit’, which takes the merchants through a series of checklists and how-to-do concepts for a period of four weeks. This program is amazingly beneficial for all product owners or merchants to get started with the platform and make the best out of it.
•  ShareASale provides a report to its merchants from time-to-time which helps them know about the areas where they need to pay more attention for better growth of their business on ShareASale.
•  ShareASale conducts monthly webinars which covers advanced aspects of selling products by merchants and help them boost their sales as well as enhance their expertise of selling their products on the platform.
•  ShareASale provides their merchants with ‘Best Practices Series’ which are basically PDF files with tips and resources regarding FAQs about the platform.

How does ShareASale do its best for the affiliates?

•  ShareASale gives special priority to the growth of its affiliates by deploying a team of experts who are active all the time to help the affiliates with their queries and needs.
•  They understand how difficult it can be for the affiliates to find the best winning products out of more than 3000 products on their platform and so, they help their affiliates by recommending the best products to promote in their niche, which saves huge amount of time for the affiliates.
•  Affiliates can easily take advantage of the affiliate marketing classes, newsletters, webinars etc. to learn more about different aspects of affiliate marketing and getting deeper into them.
•  Monthly interviews are conducted by ShareASale for its affiliates so that they can show the affiliates how to better use their tools to optimize their campaigns.

What’s so great about ShareASale?

Now, let us talk about the technologies deployed by ShareASale which makes it a great affiliate network.

•  The tracking of ShareASale works completely in real-time which means you will be able to see your clicks and sales as soon as they occur. You don’t have to wait for the system to sync and show it.
•  Merchants can easily create different affiliate groups by the use of ‘tags’ based on certain criteria and easily manage them by sending group based newsletters, coupons, bonuses etc.
•  ShareASale Merchant API makes it possible for the merchants to easily void or edit transactions in real time, setting up recurring commissions, approve or declines requests from affiliates automatically based their own criteria and more.
•  Are you a merchant with many stores? Have no worries, ShareASale got you covered with its finest feature using which you can easily setup different stores within the same account but set different commissions for each of the stores. You can even upload creatives in different store categories for the affiliates. Also, all the clicks and sales reports are shown in different categories to the corresponding affiliates.
•  The strong affiliate API provided by ShareASale makes it possible for the affiliates to view their stats in real time without any delay, find niche relevant products by searching certain keywords and also to find new banners from the merchants as soon as they are uploaded by the merchants.
• Affiliates can easily create custom deep affiliate links to promote in their marketing campaigns which makes it possible for them to send the traffic to certain product pages and promote winning products individually from a store. This optimization feature alone increases the earnings of affiliates by huge extent. There is also an optional feature, ‘SocialBar’, which helps the visitors to share the affiliate links with their friends and family on different social media platforms and by email.

My Verdict

Anyone looking forward to join a reliable affiliate network to take the sales at their store to the next level, ShareASale is definitely worth a shot!

ShareASale has products in all possible niches to promote and they will certainly have products for your niche as well. The only key here is to keep the traffic very targeted in a particular niche so that you can sell products in that niche to that small audience and make some decent commission, followed by scaling it up for different niches.

All in all, ShareASale with all of its strong features is undoubtedly one of the best affiliate programs we came across over the years.

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