How Does Share a Sale Work?

Introduction

ShareASale is founded in the year 2000.

ShareASale is an affiliate marketing network based in Chicago, U.S.A.

ShareASale pays commissions to affiliates based on the sales, as well as allows merchants to list their products here.

Become an affiliate

ShareASale features more than 2,500 merchants offering a variety of products and services. As an affiliate, you can choose from more than 2,500 programs that allow you to earn commissions.

The merchants will then pay a commission for sales resulting from the affiliates’ referrals. As an affiliate, you decide the specific merchants you would like to promote and how you want to promote these merchants. Affiliates can also log into the ShareASale website and check their stats and earnings in real-time.

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Become a Merchant

ShareASale is an example of performance marketing. For an online merchant, performance marketing allows a merchant to increase their customer database by inviting new customers.

ShareASale offers merchants to get connect with the network of an established affiliate. As a merchant, you can freely decide the commission structure that you can offer to pay the ShareASale affiliates and only pay commissions from sales.

Therefore, if the ShareASale program does not result in a direct sale, the merchant will not pay any commission.

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How to Get Started ShareASale?

You can sign up on ShareASale as an affiliate or as a merchant or as an agency partner.

Once you are done with the submission of a respective application, ShareASale will email you a merchant or as an affiliate welcome package.

If you become an affiliate, ShareASale will furnish you with HTML referral links and banners for available merchants. So, as an affiliate, you will have to place HTML links or banners on your websites and start earning commissions for your referrals.

Is ShareASale Free?

It’s always been free to join ShareASale as an affiliate, sign-up process is quite easy and very quick, once you get approval from the network. Congratulations! You will join as a partner with thousands of Merchant Programs that will be waiting for you.

ShareASale does not charge any fees to join as an Affiliate.

Though, if you had joined the program as a merchant, ShareASale will have your essential business data in their system within two working days.

Once your database has been updated on the ShareASale system, you can start generating links and banners for the affiliates who want to promote your products through various platforms.

Merchants will need to select a commission structure to pay the affiliates.

ShareASale charges setup fee for joining of merchant program, which is USD 650.00

(This includes USD 550 initial “network access fee” and USD 100 as a minimum deposit)

Benefits

ShareASale offers various benefits to both, i.e. Affiliates as well as Merchants.

These benefits include real-time tracking to merchants as well as to affiliates.

ShareASale also guarantees timely payments to affiliates of an earned commission.

As an affiliate, you can use a deep link facility as well, which means you can link prospects straight to a registration page on the merchant’s website, i.e. bypassing the home page.

Deep linking helps to ensure that you will earn commissions for your referrals as well.

Do you need a website for ShareASale?

Yes, ShareASale requires all affiliates to have a live website or a Social Media Page.

The website or Social media page must be free of any hate speeches and adult content.

You must be an owner and having complete control of the website you apply with.

How do you make money on ShareASale?

Pay Per Lead — You get paid every time a visitor follows your affiliate link to a merchant’s lead capture form and fully completes it.

Pay Per Sale — You earn a commission when visitors follow your direct link to a product or webpage and then make a purchase.

What are the highest paying affiliate programs?

SEMRush.

Aweber.

Convert Kit.

Get Response.

The Promo Republic.

Lead pages.

Is ShareASale safe?

ShareASale is a huge affiliate market network with nearly 20 years in this business; I can certainly say that it is not a scam.