Allposters.com Review
Next to Art.com, Allposters.com is one of the web’s most popular Internet retailers. They also happen to have a very nice affiliate program with great commissions. Instead of having to rely on an affiliate middleman (eg. Linkshare) you are able to interact directly with them and that is why they are able to offer such generous commissions.
Generous commissions you say? That’s right, checkout this table.
| Total Sales/Month | Commission Percentage |
|---|---|
| Less than $500 | 25% |
| $500 to $2,000 | 26% |
| $2,000 to $5,000 | 27% |
| $5,000 to $10,000 | 28% |
| $10,000 to $20,000 | 29% |
| $20,000 and up | 30% |
You might be thinking that 25% commission on a $10 poster is not that much, but two things separate this service from Amazon. A $10 book from Amazon at 7.5% (highest you can get right now) will help put in a whopping $0.75 in your bank account while a $10 poster from Allposters.com will get you $2.50. Also, they include framing which can get every expensive so your earnings are likely to increase.
They pay monthly and place a 10-day cookie on customers computers so you have 10 days to make money from just one click.
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Even better is that they have just now introduced a webservices package that works similar to Amazon Web Services. This leads to even greater possibilites for integration within your website.
This service is good for entertainment sites, college focused sites, home decorating type sites and a couple of others. It’s hard to go wrong with a program from a well-respected site that pays such high commissions.
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5 opinions for Allposters.com Review
Mike M
Aug 25, 2004 at 7:32 am
So what’s the feasability of setting up a site just to sell posters?
Scrivs
Aug 25, 2004 at 11:28 am
What do you mean by feasibility? I mean you can easily setup a domain that just sells posters, but how much will it earn is another question.
Do you go out of your way to promote it or do you just sit around hoping that people find it. It’s possible, but realistically you probably will not earn that much.
Also once people find that they can go to Allposters.com they will just return there and ignore your site.
Mike M
Aug 25, 2004 at 2:17 pm
Well, there’s the righteous way of doing things by creating some good content with a top notch web design, contribute meaningful comments to forums and blogs, and embark on a long term link building campaign. Or… there’s the less than righteous way of doing it by building a site with no content other than affiliate merchandise, spend more time designing your popups than your main website, spam forums, blogs, and wiki sandboxes with links to your site, and push your seo tactics as far as you can without getting penalized.
Personally, I want to stay righteous. But, I have a hard time imagining that it would be worthwhile to create a righteous website just to make money from a posters affiliate account, or any other type of affiliate program. Would an unrighteous poster website make a descent return on the time invested and if so, just how unrighteous do you have to be?
Scrivs
Aug 25, 2004 at 3:06 pm
Well if you were going to build a content-based website you wouldn’t base it around posters. Instead say if you had a movie review site you could sell posters and dvds to supplement the content.
Most people like to do things the righteous way, while others try to get in and get out with as much money as possible. I have no arguments for or against either side. To each his own. (but I do prefer sites that offer me some value)
Paul
Nov 15, 2006 at 5:19 am
A possible better way for the small fry would be to concentrate a site on just one kind of poster or maybe even one poster. SEO the heck out of it, links, etc… get your positions and then move on to another one. Might be easier for rankings than to try to just build a big site that is ultimately just a copy of allposter.com with a different layout. My 2 cents.
Paul
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