The first question to consider when looking at an affiliate program is whom it serves. Some of the affiliate programs are extremely particular in their target market, such as gambling, sports, retail, wholesale, business-to-business, and etc. Make certain to pick those who are most apt to have affiliates like you.

An additional consideration is the plan the affiliate utilizes. Is it PPC, PPL, or PPS? Based on your goals, you may want to pick an affiliate program with a certain type of pay plan. Check out whether the program offers tiers. It will advantageous for you to get referrals to the program if they offer tiers, because you will profit from your referrals’ results as well as your own performance.

Notice the amount of commission that is paid. Take time to see if the other programs are the same. If you find that one program pays 10% and another pays 30%, it would be unwise to choose the one that pays less.

Speaking of commissions, make sure you find out what the minimum payout is. Discover their method of payment. Will they send you a check, wire the earnings to you, use PayPal, or what? Also, make certain there is no indication of a past history of trouble with commission payouts. This would be a warningto avoid that company.

Other than these hints, the best advice I can give you is to use your brain. When you are visiting these sites, consider additional things that may be relative to you, and don’t be scared to ask questions to a representative of the affiliate program. Affiliate programs want your business, and they’ll be elated to answer when possible. As with anything in business, use caution and don’t jump in too fast. You might have missed some important item, and by jumping in too quickly, you’ve made an error. But if you slow down and think about the decision, you’ll make the proper decision and join a fantastic affiliate program.

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Check out his blog at http://IanDelCarmen.com. Or visit Fireball Planet at http://FireballPlanet.com

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Inc. Magazine just ranked HostGator #239 overall on their prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing privately owned companies in America. Here’s how the companies that make Inc’s list are ranked:

The Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2008 (a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired since that date). Revenue in 2005 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2008 must have been at least $2 million.

Additionally, HostGator ranked #6 in all Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX (Greater Houston area) companies, and #20 out of all companies in our category—Business Products & Services.
HostGator has managed to grow over 896% within the measured 3 year time period. We’ve nearly doubled in revenue from 2007 to 2008.

In 2008, HostGator was ranked at #21 overall. Although 2009’s rank was lower than the previous year’s, we’ve nearly doubled our revenue between the two periods. Despite the job market shrinking across the U.S., HostGator has also created 100 positions for highly qualified technicians and systems’ administrators in the Houston area over the last year.

I think I speak for everyone at HostGator, when I say we’re all really proud to be a part of this company and what we’ve been able to accomplish. The growth simply comes from doing what we’ve always done: providing our clients with reliable web hosting service, 24/7 support, and by offering as many features as possible.

Huge thanks goes to our clients and employees for our continued success.

Above was Reprinted with permission from Hostgator Hosting Services. Below has been written by our Editor/Journalist

The Sales Geek Team as you may or may not know only endorses products and or services that we utilize and or have tested and see a need or purpose for that product or service.

All of us here at The Sales Geek Offices would like to extend a warm, happy and excited: CONGRATULATIONS to all of the staff and officers of HostGator Web Hosting Services.  

When I read that Hostgator was ranked #239 I had to read it again, I thought to myself “How did that little old Texas company grow so quickly and then get ranked as AMERICA’S 239th Fastest Growing Private Company. I know I know it sounds like my mother’s cousin’s brother’s aunt kinda deal but…it’s not. Inc. Magazine has been in business for many years and it’s rankings can also be seen in Forbes rankings, they are always close. I’ll tell ya’ I wish my little ole’ company even made the number 5000, but truth of the matter is, in my field there are 10′s of thousands maybe even hundred’s of thousands.

The Sales Geek Team has been using Hostgator for just a bit, but I’ll tell you what they are a blessing compared to the others I had to deal with out there. Web Hosting is a very integral part of having a website. Everything I need is included in my plan except I am considering adding a shopping cart. The fees are so much less than the other resources. I looked at one shopping cart with my so called Pal? We were talking about one for 399- plus 40 per month, is that crazy. Hostgator didn’t have the large upfront and the monthly is 25% less. How about this: They have three hosting plans, the hatchling, baby croc and business at 6.95, 9.95, 14.95 This is the pay month by month you can save a lot by paying in advance, hey if you got the money you might as well use it to save.

I chose the baby croc plan, I am optimistic about the amount of traffic I may get from this site as it developes. The baby croc plan includes unlimited bandwith, disk space and domains believe it or not at only $9.95 per month and your satisfaction is guaranteed. When you get those free blog hostings from say blogger or wordpress or there is others, you are not allowed to make any serious money off of them. If they catch you they will shut you down and you lose all that hard work. You may say that they let you put on Google Adsense and that is probably true, however, let me ask this, How much was your largest paycheck? Did you ever even get one. Hostgator offers bloggers what is called Fantastico. It is a wordpress blog with a selection of themes available that you can fully monetize. Chose your own layout and colors and widgets, many plug-ins, etc. These blogs are built for maximum Search Engine Optimization as well, which means you will be easier to find. Maybe you don’t want a blog and you want to build your own site, well theyu have you covered with sitebuilder tools and all the file access that you will need. Did I mention e-Mail? how about unlimited. There is autoresponders, mailing lists, spam assasin, you name it, it’s like Prego…Hey it’s in there…..

We were able to put together a special package for our readers. If you would like to give Hostgator a try, we have a code that you can use to give them, a try for a full 30 days for just 1 cent, that’s right you heard me, 1 cent..you can transfer your domains if you already have them or you can get them from Hostgator. Need help they have support available. So give them a try You must use the link immediately following this post to get the one cent  trial and you need to use coupon code hgc25   you will see this section when you sign up

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