Thursday 12 July 2012

How to join Commission Junction

Commission Junction is one of the best affiliate program in the industry and many people want to make money on CJ but there are many people who does not have idea to join CJ or they face difficulty while joining CJ. Here is the complete guidelines to signup Commission Junction so that you can start making money right away after joining CJ and receiving password.

Just visit www.cj.com and click on the Publisher –> Application as shown in image below-

 

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After you click the Application, you will reach the CJ PUBLISHER APPLICATION: Step 1 of 2 as shown below-  cj-signup-step1

This is the first page of CJ signup process. Here are 3 fields you have to choose. First is the language preference where by default English language is selected. If you are from other country, you can select other language given there. Then you have to choose the country where you live. If you live in India, you can choose India and if other country then choose your country from the drop down menu.

Then select functional currency. You can choose USD as the currency if your current is not in the list. After choosing the currency, click NEXT –>>

After clicking NEXT, you will reach the CJ “ PUBLISHER APPLICATION: Step 2 of 2

Here you will get a popup window where you can read about some of the CJ policy. If you have  installed or enabled any popup blocker, you will not see that window. Just close that window after reading this. And you will see the page as below-

First field you will see is the publisher service agreement where you need to scroll down so as you can see the Accept button (Refer image). Just click on the Accept button so that you check box below that button will be checked.

Then check all the 4 checkboxes which are given below Code of Conduct, Privacy policy, Age Certification and Certification Authority.

You must be above 18 years to do this job. You can click on the link given below each of the check box and read thoroughly so that you can know about these things.

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Now you have to enter details about yourself. If you have website then you can enter the website details. Take the example of this website.

Please note that if you don’t have website than don’t enter anything there. Just leave the fields blank and also delete “http://” from the website URL field, otherwise it will show the error you have not entered website name.

Leave the “Describe Your Website” field blank if you have not entered website name.

Then Select “Category”. Even if you don’t have website, you need to select the favorite category from the drop down menu.

The select “Current Monthly Unique Visitors”. If you don’t have website, just select “Not yet Lunched”.

Now select Promotional Method. You can choose the methods you like to promote Commission Junction advertisers with. You can either select first 3 or middle 2 depending on your choice.

After that there is a field “Whether your site offer incentives to visitors……”. You need to select this field “NO” as you are going to give any incentive to your customer to make a signup or purchase from CJ advertiser. Just select NO.

Then it comes Contact Information.

Enter your full name in the First and Last Name.

Then Title/Function in Organization – You can leave this blank if you are individual.

Then enter your phone number and email address. Enter email address twice as given in the confirm email field. Then enter your company information. If you are individual, treat your name as Organization name. So type your name in the “Organization name” field if you are not doing this work for organization. Then write your name, city name, state name and pin code of your area. Then again enter your phone in the Organization Phone field. Don’t fill anything in Organization Fax’. Leave that blank if you don’t have fax.image

Then in the payment information select “Check” as the payment method. After you select the check, you will see 2 extra field i.e. Payee’s Name and Check Currency. Type your name as the payee name or other name you want the cheque to that name and check currency as USD US dollar. Last field you will see is “Please enter the characters into the box below”. Just type exactly the same characters given in the image. After that Click on “Accept Terms” and you are done with the dirty work.

Be sure that you get the message “Congratulation, You have successfully opened a publisher account with Commission Junction! The next step is to check your email for your username and password, so you can login to your account, where you can search for products and ads to place on your Web site and start earning revenue.

In the next section we will learn more about Inside CJ and some of the tips so that you can start making fast money with Commission Junction.

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