Last Updated: Mar 14, 2021

There are so many people that want to start an affiliate marketing business these days. The industry has grown rapidly since its inception back in 1989. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer became a giant due to affiliate marketing. Thousands of affiliates are promoting products from companies around the globe and deliver sales/leads like clockwork.

It is not that hard to get started but there are so many things that you need to learn before that. Additionally, have in mind that the competition is enormous as more and more entrepreneurs are entering the battle scene. On the other hand, the number of people on Earth is increasing, the number of internet users follows the same pattern. Online sales are only growing so it is not too late to start such a business if this is one of your main concerns.

There is a huge potential, and every day I discover new ways to expand my affiliate website. But when I started, 2 years ago, I thought that this model was not paying off well. Hopefully, I was wrong and now I can’t live without my online businesses.

If you run an affiliate business it is essential to get help and support, especially at the beginning. Technical issues, search engine optimization, website development, coding, design, keywords, market research, targeted traffic, affiliate programs …the list is endless.

The most important factor is the quality of help that you will get and of course how fast this will happen. Now let’s examine where someone can get support with affiliate marketing once they got started

Top Places to Get Affiliate Marketing Help

These networks act as a medium between companies and marketers. They handle the transactions and keep a track of everything. This allows marketers to focus on their promotions and get detailed statistics about their performance even on a daily basis. Most of the networks have separate sections where you can get support. Of course in all affiliate networks, the subscription is free, besides they need affiliates to generate sales.

But don’t expect to support you with questions regarding your website. You will receive a basic support concerning their program, vendors, partnerships and if you need help on setting up your account/campaigns.

200 million customers worldwide and growing… 

They offer a standard documentation covering topics like

• Using the marketplace, understanding the statistics, viewing and promoting products, marketplace categories
• How to use the links, succeed as an affiliate, earning commissions, how to get paid…

The support ticket system is available 24/7 and you can submit your requests. As always, getting support from ticket systems is a slow process, you gotta have patience.

A leading provider of performance marketing solutions for the past 17 years 

Knowledgebase – Main categories

• Account settings
• Merchants
• Product links
• Payments

and a separate mini department covering Affiliate topics with an internal search widget.  

If you can’t find an answer there you can submit a support ticket. 

Read on for a full review on ShareaSale

The latest slogan is actually an announcement…”Avangate acquires 2Checkout to expand payment flexibility and broaden market reach”

The help area inside the affiliate dashboard provides answers to the most frequently asked questions. Again, a support ticket system is in place and you can access it anytime.

Additionally, on the homepage under the tab “affiliates”, they offer a free guide. 100 tips for successful affiliate selling.

Drive results for your business, the world’s most successful internet retailers are 2x more likely to choose CJ

They offer an affiliate marketing glossary, practical, divided into letters. You can contact the support team via email or by phone, from Monday to Friday.

The global technology that drives sales, providing the network, tools, and solutions essential for building a successful and profitable internet business… 

The knowledge base inside the affiliate dashboard might help you with documents like

• How to drive traffic
• Finding products to promote

As always, a support ticket system gives you access to the team 7 days a week, excluding certain holidays.

Service, Excellence, passions. Nurturing super affiliates since 1999. Affiliate network, training resources, and a community.

Available courses

• Beginners: Intro, choosing a niche, building a website, content writing, affiliate links & resources
• Intermediate: Basic SEO, mobile optimization, social media, email marketing, using video
• Advanced: planning & analysis, advanced SEO, paid traffic, advanced email marketing, advanced social media, conversion optimization

Additionally, they offer the Affiliate Marketer’s guide to content creation

Support comes from the Facebook group that has 1700+ members and 9 admins. Of course, you can send emails if you wish.

• Rakuten Marketing
• eBay Partner Network
• Amazon Associates
• LinkConnector
• RevenueWire
• FlexOffers
• Admitad
• ImpactRadius
• AvantLink
• YeahMobi
• TradeDoubler
• Mobidea
• Performance Horizon
• PepperJam Network
• WebGains
• DigitalRiver – One Network Direct
• Affiliate Future
• TradeTracker
• AdMedia
• ValuLeads
• DealGuardian

On forums, you can expect support much faster than the affiliate networks. Marketers, bloggers, entrepreneurs, business people post informational content and discuss anything related to the industry. Have in mind though that many places are full of spam and sometimes the answers that you get won’t help you as you would expect.

The strategy is to make connections to drive awareness for your brand/products and to stay on top of the hot news.

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I recently joined AffLift and I had a great experience and here I am adding it to this catalog.

Why?

Because you will definitely get help when you need it.

The admin, Luke, is doing his best to organize everything, fix issues, and offer his help to everyone even in private mode.

The forum is dedicated to helping its members succeed by providing ongoing education in the form of webinars in cooperation with well-known affiliate networks, follow-along campaigns, case studies, and so much more.

Popular sub-forums:

• PPV
• Push notifications
• Search engine marketing
• Social
• Native
• Banners
• SEO
• Email
• eCommerce
• Incentive
• Adult

Statistics:

• 50,000+ helpful messages in the forum
• 5,135 threads
• 39,777 members

Related: 

• Full review

The world’s largest internet marketing community and marketplace…

An old forum with a huge database of topics.

Popular sub-forums

• Main Internet marketing discussions – 237,000 threads, 2,700,000 posts
• Warrior ask me anything – the world’s best marketers and entrepreneurs conduct live streaming sessions. I have watched a few of those live streams, and this is how I came across Armand Morin, a marketing expert with over 20 years of experience.

I am not using this forum a lot lately due to many spam posts or irrelevant interactions. But it is a place where you can get help from affiliate marketers if you insist.

World class affiliate marketing forum & tools…

The founder, David Ford started with affiliate marketing 10 years ago. Step by step lessons, case studies, tips on popular traffic sources like PPV, PPC, Facebook, Mobile, SEO and more. They offer a variety of tools as well, like a landing page builder, related keywords tool, backlink analysis tool, related domains tool, headline bot, image vault.

But it is a premium solution…

• $67 / month
• $330 / 6 months
• $565 / year

Original CPA marketing forum since 2013.

• Affiliate related sub-forums and areas…
• Affiliate network groups, applications, and listings
• Niches, tutorials, and downloads
• Whitehat and blackhat SEO
• Affiliate marketing terms you must know

Of course, there are threads full of ads. For example…

• Looking for an experienced US-based Affiliate Manager?
• Looking for a partner in affiliate marketing?
• How I am currently ranking my affiliate sites

Affiliate marketing / Webmaster SEO forum.

Related topics

• Affiliate marketing – products & merchants
• Traffic & content
• The art of mailing
• Hosting & domains
• Design, developing and programming

Web development community.

Related threads

• What is affiliate marketing – newbie addition
• Learn how to become an affiliate marketer
• How to increase Amazon CPM ads impression
• Is affiliate business dead or live?
• 5 questions every aspiring marketer should ask & answer

The most active and friendliest affiliate marketing community…

Related threads – Examples

• What is affiliate marketing?…walkthrough
• Guides, case studies, and tutorials
• Business management
• Programming and scripts
• Copywriting
• Tracking
• Testing, optimization, and scaling
• Mobile marketing

Forums:

• Sub-message boards: Google SEO, supporters, Webhosting issues and options, website software support and usage, social media optimization, technology exhibitions and conferences, the wall, review my site
• Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, social media marketing, LinkedIn, deprecated – Google Plus
• Mobile internet: native mobile and tablet application design and development, mobile website design and development, mobile and tablet advertising and marketing
• Code, content, and presentation: Javascript and AJAX, HTML, CSS, Apache web server, PHP server-side scripting, Perl side server CGI scripting, WYSIWYG and text code editors, databases, content management, flash and shockwave, XML development, site graphics and multimedia design, RSS, ATOM, and related technologies, blogging, SEO blog administration, WordPress
• Hardware and OS related technologies: webmaster hardware, website technology issues, Linux, Unix, and *nix like operating systems, smartphone, wireless, and mobile technologies
• Webmaster world: website analytics, tracking and logging, content, writing, and copyright, webmaster general, eCommerce, new to web development, domain names, professional webmaster business issues, Apple software and technology, community building and user-generated content, accessibility and usability, web video creation and optimization, website security, website regulatory compliance news, issues, and guidelines, 
• Browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
• Microsoft: IIS server and ASP.net, Windows OS, bing ads, bing search engine news, corporate, deprecated – Windows 7, deprecated – Windows 8
• Yahoo: search engine and directory, publisher contextual ad network, search marketing pay per click marketing. Altavista, Altaweb, corporate
• Marketing and Biz dev: link building, cloaking, keyword, SEM research, general search engine marketing issues, search engine submission
• Advertising: paid inclusion engines and topics, affiliates, pay per click engines
• Google: SEO news and discussion, APIs maps, tools and labs project, Alphabet Inc, finance, government, policy, and business issues, GoogleAds, AdSense, shopping, news archive, Gmail advertising, AMP
• Search engines: sitemaps, metadata, robots.txt, Ask – Teoma, alternative search engines, directories, UK search and internet marketing news, Asia and Pacific region, search engine spider and user-agent identification, local search
• Local: community center, commercial exchange, ?Foo, Pubcon
• SEOchat
• DevShed

Other departments and resources: SEO tools (website crawler, SE comparison tool, on-page SEO, keyword suggest, image and link analysis, page comparison), Social tools (author crawler, social activity tracker, edit social images, authorship, YouTube reputation search), Webmaster tools (HTTP response headers, find my IP, Whois domain look up, what\s my browser size, block image hot linking in .htaccess), Free tools (schema, PPC, web design, other, disavow backlinks, in-depth schema code), Resources (report a problem, library, hire experts), control panel, newsletter archives, supporters forum, hire.

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This section contains resources for those that are ready to thrive with their online affiliate businesses. In almost every case, the multi communities offer training, tools and superior/interactive support.

The main slogan is…”The #1 Premium Affiliate marketing community”, a business hub for experienced and beginners. Launched in January 2011 provides case studies, guides, high-quality information on a variety of topics. Education, conferences hosting, local networking events

The team

• Lorenzo aka Mr Green, mobile advertising, master of angles, lead generation
• Jordan aka StackMan, split testing, landing pages, weird stuff, mobile traffic, Facebook
• BBrock 32, technical aspects, outsourcing, creating affiliate expert tools, traffic sources
• Zeno, Facebook, gaming, development, technical issues, interpreting data
• Caurmen, analytics master, statistics, tutorials, leadership, keeping the forum organized
• RubyTunes, 5+ years of experience, pop traffic, tutorials, case studies
• Vortex, 10+ years of experience in internet marketing, statistical methods, campaign optimization, data analysis, pop traffic, helping new members 

Related topics – Examples

• What to do with your affiliate marketing skills
• Are you mentally tough enough for Affiliate Marketing?
• How not to give up on Affiliate marketing before you actually master it
• Basic affiliate marketing toolset

Features 

• Quality content: new guides are being added, old ones are being updated, case studies.
• Diverse Community: affiliate marketers of all experience levels, traffic source and network reps, affiliate network managers, affiliate lawyers and tax consultants, tracking experts and vendors, all-round experienced business professionals
• Global Meetups: free access for members
• Guides and technical help, feedback
• Outsourcing with step by step guides
• Managing money (banking, taxes, investments)

The membership costs $99 / month and gives you…

• Access to STM forums
• Exclusive tools (URL scraper, PoF demographic tool, keyword tool, site analytics, lots of PPV tools)
• Competitive intelligence suite: spy tools for various traffic sources and a direct partnership with Adplexity
• Local networking events
• Exclusive StackScript: a custom built script that automatically deploys, configures and optimizes a Linode server to get it ready for action
• Discounts and coupons
• Exclusive FunnelFlux partnership: a self-hosted tracker. Industry leading redirect speeds and insane features.
• Promotions from traffic sources
• STM video university: a lot of tutorial content is being transferred to videos
• More tools on the way

Forums: 

• Adult traffic, affiliate city guides, affiliate marketing
• Affiliate world conferences, copywriting, conversion, and psychology, design
• eCommerce, extras, Facebook
• Fitness and health, managing work, life & money, mobile, native
• Networks/offers, off-topic, outsourcing and employment
• POP/PPV/Redirect, programming, servers & scripts, search/PPC
• Local networking events, London 2015, success stories, tracking campaigns, travel
• and more 

Success, real, simple. Every day people are building extraordinary businesses…

The only all-in-1 package with a step by step process, software tools, comprehensive guidance, 24/7 support and “auto-updating” that enables solopreneurs to build profitable businesses.

Founded in 1997 by Ken Evoy (CEO), based in Montreal, Canada. President is Allan B. Abrahams. Over 130,000 customers and affiliates 

• Research and planning
• High-value content
• Traffic building
• Monetization

A separate forum helps members with their questions.

Topics – Examples

• Working with your master keyword list (5253 topics, 32000 posts)
• Finding your niche (500 topics, 3,000 posts)
• Planning your monetization mix (700 topics, 6,000 posts)
• Choosing a perfect, brandable domain name (490 topics, 3,500 posts)
• Submit a site or page for review (14,700 topics, 105,000 posts)
• SiteBuilder Libraries & tools (11,000 topics, 54,000 posts)
• Coding (HTML/CSS/Javascript etc…) (17,000 topics, 88,000 posts)
• All things Mac (800 topics, 5000 posts)
• Hosting providers & registrars (9 topics, 41 posts)
• WordPress themes & plugins (33 topics, 159 posts)
• Social Media (2700 topics, 21,000 posts) 

What you get if you purchase the membership

• Perfect preparation – keywords research, competition, monetization plan, brainstorm ideas, finding your niche, supply, info, Alexa integration, advanced searches ion 20 categories
• Build & Host – domain registration (you choose it, they register it for you), website hosting (one year – unlimited bandwidth), creative site design tools, block by block page building, mobile optimization, page & image manager
• Traffic building system – wording optimization, automatic search engine sitemap creation, pinging, tracking, ranking reports, traffic stats & click analysis, pay-per-click acceleration, state of the web private traffic headquarters
• Trust building tools – ready-made HTML codes, 3 Facebook like buttons on every page, Facebook’s open graph tabs, Pin-it button, Twitter follow button, G+ button, electronic newsletter publishing, forms builder (surveys, polls, applications), autoresponder, links fixer, email/webmail/Gmail integration
• Monetization – most profitable keywords, search through affiliate programs to promote, forms building, plug 3rd party resources into subdomains, stores, shopping carts, membership sites
• Guidance & Support – an action guide, integrated online help, SBI Xpress newsletter (information from over 100 internet marketing sites, blogs, zines and feeds), private tips, new information, old information is being deleted, top new articles by Ken Evoy, consumer reports, recommendation on 3rd party resources, private forums, unlimited customer support 

Recent additions

• MailChimp & Aweber integration
• EU cookie widget
• Fully responsive templates
• Google page speed optimization
• Pinterest follow
• Open graph tags
• Drag and drop page builder
• Site designer (templates)
• Solo Build It for WordPress

and more… 

Membership

• $29.99/month
• $299/year

There is a 90 days guarantee.

Your One-Stop-Shop to creating & growing a successful web business.

Chris Farrell began in 2008. CFM has over 23,000 members. 

Getting started

• Introduction
• 3 steps to making money

10 minutes to success

• Online roadmap, Make your online life easier, 5 skills you need to know
• Necessary tools, Find a profitable niche, Domain names, Hosting
• Nameservers, Installing WordPress, Your 1st website, Themes
• Create 3 web pages, Plugins, Front Page, Permalinks
• Aweber, Opt-in forms, Sourcing products, Email messages

Core Content

• Intro
• How to make money online
• Facebook
• WordPress Wealth
• Profitable niche
• Cloak affiliate links
• Lead pages
• Pursuing passion
• Create your own e-book
• OP lite

Traffic

• Online funnels
• 3 types of traffic
• Facebook ads
• Forum marketing
• Guest blogging 

Money making Labs

• Facebook ads
• Video made easy
• Clickfunnels
• GotoWebinar training
• Simple security steps 

Additionally, Chris is hosting free weekly webinars. And there is a private forum with like-minded entrepreneurs sharing knowledge and tips. 

Membership

• $37/month
• $297/year

There is a 7-day trial period for $4.95

One Man Gang Machines: Money getting with Free ads on the internet. Started back in 2012 by Mike Long and Greg Morrison.

Topics covered

• Find a profitable niche
• Basic keywords for future campaigns
• How to register a website
• Website hosting
• WordPress

Magic Bullet Series – Extension tools

• Alternative ways to bring traffic to a website
• Affiliate profits: how to brand your own product, which networks to use,
• Conversion Tips

No Holds Barred: The flagship product, Coaching, training, and community

• SEO, keywords
• Article spinning
• Link building
• Landing pages

Help and support are delivered through the inner forum or the Facebook page.

Moreover, OMG is holding live events and new courses are being added frequently. 

No Holds Barred Membership

A very expensive course that you can purchase for $2300 (at least at the time when I reviewed the product). But as I can see today the price has reached the $8,000 (one-time payment). 

Read on for a full review on OMG Machines

Started in 2006 by Mark Ling and Simon Slade. 

Lessons covered in the Free membership’s area

• Market researc