An Excellent Storebuilder for WordPress Blogs

After eight years in development, the Pepperjam Network is a fairly new affiliate program network that calls itself “The Next Generation in Affiliate Marketing.”  Indeed, Pepperjam offers a wealth of tools for both advertisers and publishers, including a heightened level of transparency that is not available with many other networks.

From a website publisher’s point of view, the handy affiliate marketing tools that keep rolling out makes affiliate marketing much easier.

A Sample Blog Store for Cuckoo Clocks

The latest tool from Pepperjam is a storebuilder that has been enhanced for WordPress blogs.  I decided to try it out, using a product that’s a bit unusual — cuckoo clocks.  Sure enough, with all the affiliate programs I had joined in Pepperjam, there was an excellent selection of cuckoo clocks.  Here’s the online store, using the storebuilder script exactly “as is” and not changing the width, fonts or color scheme:

Creating my “Cuckoo Clock” storebuilder took all of two minutes to do. The steps are simple:

1. Out of hundreds of available merchant feeds, I selected the ones the sold clocks and also selected the appropriate category; in this case, home and garden.
2. I filtered the results by specifying that product feeds were limited to “cuckoo clock.”
3. Except for changing the default of two products to four products, I left the store layout in default mode, but could have customized it to match the blog a bit better.
4. I selected the options to include a search box and WordPress optimization.
5. Finally, I copied and pasted the generated code into this blog.

Pop Shops offers a similar storebuilder that is free, but in order to have the search box and other optimization features, but you have to pay $30 a month.  Your product selection options in Pop Shops will be bigger because it includes the following affiliate networks which include the Pepperjam Network:

• Commission Junction
• Linkshare
• Google Affiliate Network
• ShareASale
• LinkConnector
• Pepperjam
• Bridaluxe
• Betty Mills

With the ability to filter your products in both Pepperjam and Pop Shops, you can create a stores to match any niche you are promoting.

I Sell My Own Stuff.  Why Should I Care About This?

As a mom and pop business owner, you’re most likely interested in selling your own product line.  However, to increase traffic to your main site, you should consider creating a few niche WordPress blogs that are spread around on different server locations.  Monetizing those blogs with targeted affiliate products such as those offered by Pepperjam will create some extra income and make your blog more interesting to visitors.

How Do I Join Up?

It’s absolutely free to join the Pepperjam Network.  Not only will you have access to an incredible selection of online stores that you can build an affiliate relationship with, but Pepperjam will provide you with tips that will enhance your affiliate marketing efforts. Sign up today (and get a $10 sign-on bonus) and add some product-specific “stores” to your blogs and static webpages.  You’ll love it.

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