The iDevAffiliate program is yet another free to join website that will pay you a sign up bonus just for joining their program. If you’re not familiar with iDevAffiliate, they offer an affiliate marketing software that allows people like you and me to be able to set up our own affiliate program. If you used Joomla to build your website, they have a plugin just for you. Of course, Joomla is free, but a lot of their mods aren’t, this one included, because iDevAffiliate costs $100.00 for the standard version.

I did some research on their actual affiliate program product and wasn’t too impressed. The urls aren’t SEO friendly and the affiliate program itself looks a little bit too dull for my tastes. That’s just me though, you’ll have to take a look at iDevAffiliate yourself to get your own opinion of them.

One thing I noticed about the iDevAffiliate program is that they don’t offer a way to refer other free affiliates so you can earn a percentage of their sales. I could be wrong, but I did take a really long look at my back office and didn’t find anything about it.

I like that the iDevAffiliate program offers a video training library to help affiliate managers train their affiliate to be better Internet marketers. Another good thing about the iDevAffilite program is you only need to earn $25.00 after your $25.00 sign up bonus for minimum withdrawal of only $50.00. This sure beats the normal $100.00 minimum withdrawal rate most affiliate companies follow.

Unfortunately, the iDevAffiliate program only pays its affiliates a measly 15% commission for their efforts. This isn’t so great in my opinion, especially when you see a lot of 40% to 50% commission structures out there.

There you have it, take a look at some more affiliate program sign up bonuses and let me know what you think of them.

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.

Crocmint is yet another free affiliate program that on top of being 100% free to join, they will throw in a $50.00 sign up bonus as well. That’s a pretty generous offer for future Crocmint affiliates.

I’m not to hip on the products Crocmint has available to promote. It looks like just a bunch of pharmaceutical products that focus in weight-loss, hair loss, skincare, sexual health, etc..  Nothing I would really enjoy promoting. Crocmint does however pay a hefty 40% commission to all sales made under $1,000.00 (silver plan). Once you earn over $1,000.00 in one month you’ll jump into the gold plan at 45% earned commissions.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll probably just want to focus on recruiting other affiliates like yourself because with Crocmint you can earn 10% off of all their earnings. Here is an example provided by Crocmint on how much you could potentially earn for referring other free affiliates:

Unfortunately, if you want to receive commissions through Paypal you’ll have to earn a minimum of $500.00 in commissions. I’m starting to see where the $50.00 sign up bonus is coming. They are probably offering the sign up bonus knowing that most of the free affiliates that join are probably never going to see that free $50.00 in their bank accounts. If you decide to use ePassporte you’ll only need to earn a minimum of $150.00 to earn your first paycheck with Crocmint. I’ve never owned a ePassporte account and I don’t intend to get one just for Crocmint’s affiliate program. I’m involved with quite enough payment processors to know that enough is enough.

A good thing about Crocmint, and you don’t see this very often, they pay every Wednesday once you earn over the minimum in commissions. I just think that’s odd. All I got to say about Crocmint is that they are a free affiliate company to join. If you have a website or blog, you can easily promote their products on your website and hopefully earn some extra cash from home. You’re not going to lose any money by doing this at least.

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.

I’m not big on switching between different online money making programs as it isn’t a very wise financial decision, but I have been around the block a quite a few times. I want to briefly explain the difference between joining a money making program that you only have to pay a one time fee to be a member versus joining a business opportunity where you pay a monthly commission.

Essentially, the main difference I wanted to share with you is that the amount of money you can earn with monthly paid programs is significantly larger than the amount of money you can earn with one time payment programs. Monthly paid programs also offer the ability to earn a residual income whether you work or not. With a one time payment affiliate program you will have to keep working in order to receive commissions. Once you stop, the money stops.

For those of you who are jumping from one program to another, make sure you are at least sticking with the memberships that require a monthly payment to stay in. This means all the people you refer will be paying you a percentage of their bill every month instead of a percentage of a one time payment.

Yes, it does suck to have to pay the monthly membership dues to stay active as an affiliate, but you have to think long term. Most new prospecting members are going to be attracted to the better compensation plans because of the more residual money they can make. Plus you want to be able to build your business opportunity of choice to the point where the business grows away from you.

In case you’re not sure of what business opportunities require monthly dues and which ones require a one time payment, let me show you some examples.

Examples of some monthly residual programs: (good for long term growth)

• The Global NPN
• Global Domains International

Examples of some one time payment programs: (will have to work harder for the income to keep coming in)

• Mammoth List
• Ez2x2

Remember to always do your due diligence before joining any program that costs you money to join.

**Disclaimer – Affiliate links are used on this post.