Selling Other's Products on My Website (Affiliates)

[ryannagy]

I am thinking about how to best use E-Junkie to sell other people's products on my website and the best way to share revenue and use affiliates. Any input is welcome.



To be clear, I am taking people's CD's converting them to MP3 and using my store, e-junkie account, and blog to sell their products. I will be taking a 50% cut. What's the best way to do this?



***Perhaps I will just sell their items and at the end of each month download the transaction logs and manually send them (via Paypal) their 50% share. I want to automate the process but don't see how.



I could also set them up as affiliates, but then other people could be affiliates and I don't want the give those other people 50%. I only want to pay affiliates 25%.



Perhaps, I could create an affiliate program for others - say 25% - and again, just manually do a revenue split at the end of the month for my partners?



What do you think?



cheers - Ryan

[simplifun]

I have the same biz model (not cd to mp3) but sell other product at my site.

I have a sell # assigned to each person. When I create the item ID in ejunkie; I include the seller number ie:

006seller:mypartnumber:theirpartnumber



then I extract the log each quarter; sort by the seller# (006seller) and total all amounts, then determine the amounts. Since I also have an affiliate sales I have to subtract that amount before calculation. I do this in access and excel.



I experimented using the e-junkie affiliate and it caused problems for me. Don't recall the ins and outs on why I couldn't use it.

[ryannagy]

It's been well over a year since I posted this, and still I have not finished the project. What a slacker!



I'm curious if anyone else is doing this using only e-junkie. I'm very much a fan of automation. Would love to know how to track affiliate sales, and also pay the individual owner using only e-junkie.



The only thing I can think of is to create an affiliate button for each person's mp3 so the owner can get credit. But then how would I pay affiliates who are not selling their own products? Essentially, I can have two people on any given sale who need to get paid.



May not be possible.



Is anyone using another system that is capable of this?



- Ryan

[simplifun]

If the ejunkie transaction log would contain the information we add about the product and include the ID of the affiliate then it could be automated.

[ryannagy]

Thanks Lou Anne. I see what you mean. I'll just have to hire someone to pull together a script. - Ryan

[ryannagy]

I'm starting to realize that what you are doing is the way to go. I have found that some other systems have the functionality built in, but they are invariable 3-4 times as expense as my current E-Junkie plan, and I have no interest in learning another system.



Thanks - Ryan

[simplifun]

Shall we talk about what we each need and maybe we can figure a way to make this work. But last I worked on it, there was a missing field in the ejunkie transaction log so I couldn't automate the process. Honestly I don't recall the exact information it was lacking. I would have to remember my implementation plan and I only want to do that if I can move forward.



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