What should one look out in Health Affiliate Programs?

Health Affiliate programs is a very broad segment for affiliates interested in promoting health care related products and earning handsome commission. You can type “Health Affiliate programs” in Search Engine and you will find a long list of directories and websites promoting health care related products and their affiliate programs on SERP. The reason is very simple and that is the lucrative market available on the globe. People are coming online to research or find health related information and since they find health care products at significantly low price, they get lured to buy those products online rather going to the physical pharmacy and wasting their time as well as money.  Genuine online pharmacies or online health stores provides same products that are available in physical stores at cheap price. So for affiliates there is a huge market to earn money with health affiliate programs where affiliates can get commission ranging from 10% to 50% of product price.

More are the options more will be the confusion – Which health affiliate programs are best? Which affiliate programs are genuine? Who will provide highest Commission? Many such questions would be running in a mind of affiliate and we hope this article will help you up to some extent.

First of all you as an affiliate have to decide which market you want to target – natural products, Rx products, sexual health products, weight loss products. Sexual health products (Viagra, Cialis) and weight loss products (Reductil, Xenical, Proactol, Hoodia) are one of the highest selling products on internet and so are  their affiliate programs - sexual health affiliate programs and weight loss affiliate programs. Certainly you will get good amount of competition if you are trying to promote sexual health or weight loss products, so if you are new you can start with other products like women’s sexual health (Intrinsa) or smoking cessation (Champix) where you will find less competition. If you are well versed with Internet marketing techniques you can directly start with those products.

Once decided with the target market, you need to focus on websites providing those products and their affiliate programs. Checking for products is very necessary as you may find many generic version of products which are either not allowed or sometimes may not sold as much as brand products (you may find many generic version of Viagra, but they are not sold as much as Viagra is getting sold and the simple reason to it is the trust build on brand Viagra). Thus always prefer online stores providing brand products or brand as well as generic products but never prefer those selling only generic products. Apart from getting involved in genuine business, the added advantage of preferring brand products is that you usually get more commission on brand products compared to generic products and their conversion rate is also very high.

Find out legal information of the online store. It may be a possibility that online stores selling pharmaceutical products today may not be in existence tomorrow. So always ask for their legal information and try to get as much information as possible like their physical existence, their registration number, their phone number, from where they ship the products, etc. from their website and affiliate manager. Read more on why legal information is so important for affiliates: Getting Legal Information of Online pharmacy.

Usually affiliates make mistakes by getting lured seeking percentage commission value of an affiliate programs. There are many online health care stores claiming to give you commission up to 50% or even more. But always try to find out the actual commission value instead of commission percentage value. Calculate the commission value you will earn by selling one product and compare this with others. For example there can be two genuine online health care stores A & B selling two different products. Store A provides 50% commission selling generic product priced at $50 so commission you earn is $25. However Store B provides 20% commission selling brand products priced at $150 so the commission you earn with Store B is $30. Also the conversion rate of brand products is always higher compared to generic products.

The above factors would be visible to you before joining any affiliate program and thus you can make a smart choice of working with good and genuine Health Affiliate Programs using above factors.

If you find all the above factors good, sign up with them work with them and see what banners and promotional tools they provide. Find out how affiliate manager interacts with you. See what is the response time from affiliate team? Are they providing payments on time? Write about them and let other know about their affiliate program. If they are good let other know about their positive points if you find them bad complain about them.

Fake online pharmacy report

The biggest flaw of affiliate marketing is that affiliates unless don't get their money cannot assure wheter they have actually earn that money or not. Many affiliates have complained against fake online pharmacy for not paying them the actual commission earned by them. They could see thousands of dollars in their account in affiliate panel but when time comes for getting their amount, their account either get suspended or the pharmacy itself gets closed.

I have recently read a comment by an affiliate for one such online pharmacy called RxPayouts.

"Rxpayouts pharmacy affiliates. Nov 2, 2009 I sign up as an affiliate to this pharmacy affiliate site. I began sending them orders (around 12 orders daily) i sent them a total of around 50 sales and they never paid me a dime." - Paul (Manila)

You can check out the complete record of the complain on: Ripoff Report

Usually this kind of pharmacy affiliate programs tries to keep their threshold limit very high: $400 or even more. So by the time affiliates reach their threshold limit they can either stop their their account or stop the completer website of online pharmacy. Thus try working with pharmacy affiliate programs who have less threshold limit or are paying you in weekly or monthly basis. Again some may claim to pay you weekly but they keep their threshold very high which is difficult to achieve. Always try to find out their threshold limit and their legal information before joining any pharmacy affiliate program.

Read more on how to find out legal information of online pharmacy.

 

Health Affiliate Marketing: In house affiliate programs and affiliate networks

Health Affiliate marketing is a boon for affiliates. Affiliates are earning handsome commission from health affiliate marketing. However many are confused between affiliate networks and in house health affiliate programs. 

Usually big affiliate networks on internet are not working with online pharmacy or health care products, there are very few affiliate networks that are participating in health care products. However there are many health care merchants which are generating good amount of revenue using their in house health affiliate programs. With this amount of information let’s discuss some pros and cons of health affiliate networks and in house health affiliate programs.

Being an affiliate, the first thought that comes in a mind is that "if I move to affiliate network then I can get more merchants and thus more product options to promote." But we usually forget the level of competition existing in affiliate network. Thousands and millions of affiliates would be promoting the same products and getting same commission and sometimes one of them or all of them could be strong competitor to you. So this could be one of the disadvantages of joining health affiliate network, but at the same time the advantage of joining a network is getting more products to promote. If one product or merchant does not work you can shift to other very easily in a network.

You cannot have a full transparency in affiliate networks, whereas in an in-house affiliate program you know whom you are working with? What products they are selling? Are they genuine? Usually affiliate networks do take care of some of these points but while working for health care products you yourself should interfere and try to find out the genuine information about the health care merchants.

With affiliate network you are always assured of getting payment. However with in house affiliate program once you don't work with them or know from someones experience you cannot be assured of getting your payment. However in health care related products, usually who are involved in genuine online consultation and selling of genuine medication, they always makes sure that they will never do anything that can hamper their reputation. But usually the credibility of payment is more in networks compared to the in house affiliate programs.

Usually the super affiliates find difficulty in working with health affiliate networks as they cannot provide many times what super affiliates demands. This is very easy to achieve in an in-house affiliate program. Affiliates can easily demand in an in-house affiliate program and they request is easily & quickly fulfilled by affiliate manager for that in house affiliate program. The reason is that the affiliate team working for in house affiliate program has nothing to do expect make that one in house program better and better, however affiliate team for an affiliate network handles so many merchants account and cannot fulfill demands of all the affiliates as convincing third party is always a difficult job.

In an affiliate network, affiliates work becomes very easy. Just log in to one panel and you can access large number of merchants and their products; also get consolidated reports on all the merchants and products. Whereas in an in-house affiliate program, they have to log in to individual affiliate programs to get access to each of their affiliate panel and get the reports.

In an in house affiliate program you usually finds niche targeted segment. Thus usually pharmacy affiliate programs or health care affiliate programs are not working much with affiliate networks, they have their in house affiliate programs preferably. Advantage of getting into niche segment is higher conversion rate and better result. Apart from that the journey from a newbie affiliate to super affiliate is fast and easy in an in-house affiliate network compared to any affiliate network due to less competition in former.

Rx Weight loss Affiliate Marketing

Looking at current survey figures, Obesity is the biggest epidemic of the world. Many people are seeking weight loss treatment and it is very obvious that weight loss treatment has enormous market for business. Once decided to promote Weight loss Affiliate Program, the next step would be selecting what type of treatment to promote: Prescription or Non-Prescription. Both of them have their pros and cons, which were already mentioned in article: Prescription and non prescription weight loss affiliate program. If your preference is to promote Prescription treatments for weight loss you need to make selection among the medication available as there are several prescription weight loss treatments available in market. 

Each prescription weight loss pills has some active and inactive ingredients, the proportion of which varies in every pill. Therefore they work differently and have different side effect as well as contraindications. There are different medical criteria that are used to prescribe those treatments. Hence, everyone can not be prescribed all/any weight loss pills randomly; one may be benefited from a prescription weight loss pill while same pill may be harmful to someone else. It varies from person to person depending upon the medical condition of an individual. So, one should consult doctor before taking prescription medication.

There are various types of prescription weight loss pills in the market depending upon their working methodology in body. Some are fat blockers, which blocks fat from the body and don’t let the fat absorbed in the body. Other could be appetite suppressant, which will make them feel their stomach is full. So, one will not like to eat; consequently one will not eat food and lose weight. It is preferable to understand the working methodology of the medication along with its criteria to prescribe the medication; including their side effects and contraindications.

Prescription Weight loss Pills are not for everyone, it is only for obese people. One who is overweight with BMI less than 26 should generally lose their weight with diet and exercise. People with BMI above 26 can select the prescription medication depending upon their medical condition, as everyone cannot take all prescription medication available in the market. Your GP will be the best person to advice you for correct weight loss pills.

It is better to follow set of laws and mention all details about prescription medication on the site, before promoting any prescription weight loss affiliate program; this will save you from getting into legal issues in future.

Success Criteria for Pharmacy Affiliates

Many people want to be rich overnight and that too without any efforts. Pharmacy Affiliate Programs provide one of the easy way of earning, but it does not provide an assurance of making people rich overnight  that too without any efforts. Being an Pharmacy affiliates you should understand your responsibility and if you work hard in correct direction, this is the most attractive and easiest platform to earn  money. Below you will find few Success Criteria for Pharmacy Affiliates:

Look out for genuine online pharmacy affiliate programs: Before starting or joining new online pharmacy it is always better to check their legal information and find out how they work? These two questions will give you an idea about the credibility of online pharmacy. It might be a possibility that you may end up joining very new pharmacy affiliate program, but if it is genuine you don’t have to worry any more. Commission will follow automatically once you put efforts correctly whether you are working with veteran online pharmacy or very new online pharmacy. What is more important is the credibility of online pharmacy and selling capability of their products.

Check out their products, pricing and commission rate: Don't get lured looking to the percentage commission, usually generic online pharmacy may claim to give you up to 50% of commission, but if you look at their product price you may not be earning even $30 per sale. So always check out for commission rate along with the products and their price. Calculate earning per sale and compare it with other programs. Also ask for conversion rates, it might be a possibility that some online pharmacy may provide less than 1% conversion rate. Register to the program and check out for the affiliate panel, to see the banners and other promotional tools being provided in affiliate programs.

Try to share with affiliate manager:  Always make sure you are transparent with affiliate managers. They can provide you help on various factors apart from basic affiliate promotional techniques. Some affiliate manager are active and frequently provides you information about best selling products, high conversion rate providing products, new offers, new banners, etc. If you don't find anything in affiliate panel ask to affiliate manager. The response from affiliate manager will give you an idea of how far he/she is capable to help you. Usually good affiliate manager respond within 1 working day, if they take time there must be some problem. Provide feedback to affiliate manager about their affiliate program, this will in turn provide an opportunity of improvement to both, an affiliate program as well as affiliate.

Ask to deliver: If you don't find a suitable banner in any affiliate program but you find that their product is really capable and you are confident that you can get good commission, ask for banners from affiliate manager. Unless you won't ask you will never get. I have observed many affiliates register to affiliate program and on finding the program new and lack of banners or ads, they immediately switch to other programs. Ideally, if you join a new affiliate program you have lesser competition and thus you can have higher probability of earning. So always ask for whatever you need to promote their products instead of leaving them and promoting other affiliate program. You never know, you could be the highest earner in that affiliate program in future.

Use all Internet marketing channels to promote their products: More you promote, more will be the commission. This is the simple thumb rule to get success in affiliate marketing. Instead of promoting various brands or products on your site, focus on niche, stay with one affiliate program for few months and promote them religiously. As I said earlier, if online pharmacy is genuine, you are bound to earn good. You may usually loose the opportunities if you try to mix up more products and more merchants on same page. Try to use all possible marketing channels, like email, twitter, social book marking and networking sites, banners on website, SEO, PPC, etc. This will not only improve your web presence but will increase your probability of earning commission.

Don't promise that you and online pharmacy cannot deliver: Don't make fake promotions by decreasing the price on banners or increasing the cash back offers or discounts. Show whatever the affiliate program is offering, otherwise you will not only loose the opportunity to earn commission but you may also loose valuable visitors. If you want a specific banner or template to promote their products ask from the affiliate manager instead of manipulating the existing banners or your site.

Prescriptions V/S. Non-Prescription Weight Loss Affiliate Program

There are two types of weight loss treatments available, according to types of weight loss pills – Prescription weight loss pills and Non-Prescription weight loss pills. Once you decided to promote Weight loss Affiliate Program, you need to decide what type of Weight loss Affiliate Program you want to promote. Both Weight loss Affiliate Programs have their pros and cons, which can be compared as below:

• Prescription weight loss treatment is more expensive comparing to Non-Prescription. As per the affiliate industry, higher the product price, higher will be the commission that affiliates can earn. Hence, you can earn hansom commission by promoting Prescription Weight Loss Affiliate Program (It is recommended to read the legal information or working of pharmacy affiliate program before going ahead).
  

• Prescription Weight Loss treatment starts showing its effects faster than Non-Prescription as the former is clinically tested and proven. Although, it can have some side effects. Hence, the choice of people varies person to person; few want Weight Loss treatment with less side effects where as few do not want to wait for a long to see the effects. However if proper consultation is done or prescription is given, people prefer going for prescription rather than non-prescription pills.  
  

• Prescription Weight Loss treatment needs patient to have a doctor’s prescription (online consultation) mandatory, but Non-prescription Weight Loss treatment does not need the same.  However, there are websites in the market, who do not take patients prior-prescription or medical history and are only interested in selling medicines, stay away from those.

Hence both treatments have good market considering their pros and cons. Once you decided which Weight Loss Program you want to promote, your next step will be to select the Weight Loss pill. There are various Weight Loss pills available in the market both – Prescription and Non-prescription; you may promote multiple Weight Loss pills to provide more options to your visitors. Once you select the Weight Loss pills you want to promote, you have to be clear with your target audience and market. You can easily understand your market and audience if you have understood the product thoroughly. Understand the product you are planning to promote and its benefits and detriments. This is how by following few simple steps you can start Weight Loss Affiliate Marketing and earn money.

Health Affiliate Programs

Health affiliate programs are very famously known as pharmacy affiliate programs. The only difference one can make out between pharmacy affiliate programs and health affiliate programs is that pharmacy affiliate programs usually sells over the counter or prescription medicines however health affiliate programs may include natural health products along with over the counter and prescription medicines.

However, in our complete website you will find health affiliate programs and pharmacy affiliate programs being used interchangeably at many places. It is just like same programs with two different names.

Health affiliate programs have many different categories and the most popular amongst health affiliate programs are men's health affiliate programs. Men's health affiliate programs are becoming more popular, and the obvious reason behind it is that there are many online medications are used for men's health for various treatments.

Men usually faces various medical complexity such as hair loss, erectile dysfunction, smoking cessation, high cholesterol, obesity, etc. Thus there are lots of online pharmacy catering to this market. There are dedicated online pharmacy affiliate program or health affiliate program focused on each of the treatments individually.

Among all the above categories erectile dysfunction and weight loss pills are the highest selling products online, making weight loss affiliate program and male impotence affiliate program as one of the popular health affiliate programs.

There are few health affiliate programs catering to complete men's health, which includes medications for treatment of erectile dysfunction, obesity, hair loss, smoking cessation, etc. They are commonly known as men's health affiliate program.

Few other health affiliate programs are natural health affiliate program and holistic health affiliate programs which cater to natural products (like Acai, Proactol for weight loss) and complete collection of products (Cialis, Viagra, Reductil, Xenical, Intrinsa patch, Champix, etc) related to women and men's health respectively.

For affiliates, health affiliate programs have great opportunity but will have to be very much focused whether they want to target the patients looking for natural medicines (Proactol, Acai, etc.) or Rx medicines (Viagra, Reductil, Champix, Cialis, etc.). The number of Rx pills being sold online is very high compared to the natural products and the very obvious reason is that all Rx pills are clinically proven medicines and recommended by most of the doctors. You will always find doctors recommend Reductil or Xenical over proactol or acai for obesity or weight loss treatment. Also the commission margin that you can have with Rx medicines is very high compared to the natural products.

How Pharmacy Affiliate Program works?

You will find various ways of working of online pharmacy affiliate programs. One would be, which follow medical rules and providing online consultation along with evaluation of suitability of treatment to the patients; second would be through free online consultation or questionnaires. other would be the ones, who are only selling medications without evaluating the condition of patients.

Usually online pharmacies who are genuine always take care of patients condition before shipping their products and their process is bit long which we will discuss in this post later. However those who are involved only in selling medication have very simple process of working. They ask affiliates to place their banners or text links on the site and redirect visitors to their website, where visitors is two or three clicks away to final checkout . Visitor can buy medication by providing shipping and payment details. Once order is placed successfully, order is being processed further. If order gets processed successfully, affiliate commission gets approved else declined. However they miss out the very important step of validating the patients detail before shipping the medication. Hence, tomorrow if patient suffer from any problem the online pharmacy as well as affiliates will be equally responsible for the same.

The working of genuine online pharmacy affiliate program is very different as discussed in steps below: 

1. Affiliate places banner or text link on their websites. Visitors who visits the affiliate website may click on the banner or text link and gets redirected to online pharmacies website.
2. Visitor follows couple of clicks to make a purchase from the online pharmacy website. At the stage of "checkout" or "buy now", visitor is being asked to provide personal details (repeat visitor does not need to provide these details, as online pharmacy already has those details in their database). After that visitor is asked to answer couple of questionnaire, which are usually asked in physical consultation for getting the patients medical history. And finally visitor is asked to provide the payment details. 
3. As soon as the payment details are verified, the questionnaire filled up by patient will be sent to the doctor for evaluation. Doctors depending upon the various medical conditions either approve or disapprove the treatment to the patient. 
4. Once consultation is approved by the doctor, the order and questionnaire along with answer is send to the physical pharmacist; who verifies the treatment and order details according to pharmacist rules and ships the medication to the address provided by patient if everything is fine. 
5. Once the order gets shipped, the commission for the affiliates is approved and credited in their affiliate account while simultaneously patient gets the delivery of the order along with the address of physical pharmacy who shipped it on behalf of online pharmacy.

This will clear the difference between the genuine online pharmacy and fake online pharmacy working methodology.

Now its up to you whether you want to contribute in only selling medication without verifying the patients detail or you want to help people get best medication at best price from the best online source.

Thus pharmacy affiliate marketing is an industry where either you can promote fake online pharmacy and may get into legal issues or you can genuine online pharmacy and help people providing best souce to online treatment as well as earn hansome commission.

Why are Online Pharmacies & Pharmacy Affiliate Programs hottest?

Few years back when Amazon launched their associate programs they were the only online seller involved in affiliate business. However slowly and gradually casino online affiliate programs took a tremendous growth in internet marketing industry. Later people started realizing the importance of E-Business and E-Commerce and that made affiliate programs as one of the top choice for merchants as well as for Internet marketers to earn money online.

Once the regulations was approved for selling medication online along with online consultation, online pharmacy and consultation took a steep growth in Internet business. They targeted the affiliate marketing as one of their most used and profitable tool to generate as much as revenue as possible. However if we carefully visualize the situation along with the benefits of online pharmacy risks are increasing equally.

Let’s look into why online pharmacy and Pharmacy affiliate programs are the hottest among internet marketers and online shoppers? 

Online Pharmacy is the hottest business going online at present and the main reason to that is the same because of which people are going online: Ease of getting products and that too at cheaper rates. This is making more and more people to go online and buy online medication, some of them take proper prescription before purchasing online while some are not even bothered of it. Some genuine online pharmacies are providing online consultation and prescription along with selling medication. Some genuine online pharmacies are providing only online consultation and medication. While many fake online pharmacies are only involved in making money by selling medication online without any kind of consultation or prescription.

Due to the excellent traffic growth in online pharmacy, the pharmacy affiliate program is one of the best source of income for internet marketers. Pharmacy affiliate programs are the hottest thing going online right now among all the affiliate programs simply because people are getting rich from them. The amount of commission or the return you can get through pharmacy affiliate programs is very huge and that makes it very easy for affiliates (internet marketers) to earn serious cash. The products are obviously going to be priced better and have good chance of getting sold easily thus providing easy and fast earning opportunity.

One more reason why online pharmacy and pharmacy affiliate programs are hot is that people are usually shy to buy or purchase weight loss pills or impotency pills from the physical pharmacies. They can get these pills from any part of the world without any kind of embarrassment from online pharmacies. This makes the sale of these two pills the highest among all the products being sold online. And once few products are being sold easily cross selling is bound to happen and that makes other pills to get capitalized the opportunity.

All these pills are sold at considerable price and thus the payout to pharmacy affiliates in terms of the commission is also very high. What else you can easily sell and get $100 or even more in return as a commission?

Thinking of starting to join any pharmacy affiliate programs and start earning, than what you are waiting for, check out our online pharmacy affiliate programs section. Also before starting promoting online pharmacy please read out Genuine Online pharmacy and pharmacy affiliate programs to get involved in genuine business with genuine online pharmacy instead of getting trapped in fake online pharmacies.

Weight Loss Affiliate Program

Weight loss affiliate program is a niche segment of the pharmacy affiliate programs focused purely on Weight loss or Obesity treatment. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health. Obesity increases the possibility of various diseases which include high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breathing difficulties during sleep, lower self-esteem, as well as discomfort and depression in social situations.

Read on and find out the reasons behind various opportunities for Weight loss Affiliate Program:

• It is estimated that about 3.5 million men and 4.5 million women are moderately or severely obese in the United States. And this group is increasingly growing.
• In the last 25 years, the rate of obesity has increases by 4 times in the United Kingdom.
• In 2002, 22% of women and 23% of men were found clinically obese alone in England.
• According to the World Health Organization, 150 million European adults will become overweight /obese by 2010.
• Each year, minimum 1.9 million people globally (including more than 600 000 in the WHO European Region) die due to physical inactivity.
• Each year 30,000 deaths occur due to obesity in the UK alone.
• Each year 300,000 Americans die from overweight.
• According to International Obesity Task Force (2007), Albania the most obese women (36%), and Croatia has the largest portion of obese men (31%) in Europe.
• In the US, 61% of adults are overweight. In Russia, the figure is 54 %; in the UK- 51 %; and in Germany, 50 %.
• According to the estimation of World Health Organization (WHO), more than 115 million people are currently affected by obesity-related problems.
• World Health Organization, WHO predicts that by 2015, about 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and over 700 million of people will be classified as obese.
• Every year the diet industry (including weight loss programs, diet foods, diet pills, etc.) profits in more than $40 billion and this figure are increasingly growing year by year.
• Every year, $12 billion from company budgets are spent on obesity as health care costs.

Hence, Obesity is considered to be the #1 public health problem in the world. Consequently, weightloss treatment has huge market. There are several Weightloss options available in the market which includes: exercise, diet, prescription medications and non-prescription medications. Subsequently, there are various Weightloss Affiliate Programs available that caters to the exisiting weight loss market. Hence, Weightloss Affiliate Marketing, one of the highly growing segment among health affiliate marketing, may include products or services like exercise tips, exercise equipments, diet plan, prescription and non-prescription medication.

Getting Legal Information of Online Pharmacy

Online Pharmacy affiliate program growth has been tremendous since past few years and this is not the end, it is going to last for many years ahead. Affiliates have an excellent opportunity to capitalize the demand and serve various online pharmacies to get better revenue and in return earn % percentage commission on every sale referred by them. 

But the tricky job is to identify if the business partner you are planning to work with is genuine or not!! Affiliates should not merely be considered as freelancer publisher or affiliates, but they are actually the business partners. Hence, before becoming partner to any pharmacy you need to assure few things about the pharmacy with whom you are  planning to work.  Obviously, you do not need to ask for their financial details but you can surely ask for their legal information being into pharmaceutical industry. There have been many fake online pharmacies and working with them may earn you commission but somehow you may get involved in an illegal business. Hence, finding legal information about an online pharmacy is the task that every affiliates should be considered before getting into business relationship with them. 

Generally, genuine online pharmacy will provide legal information on their sites such as from where they ship their products? If they are working as an online pharmacy they must be having physical existence or they must be linked to physical pharmacies and they have to mention the registration information of such physical pharmacies on their websites. Usually pharmacy having their physical existence in Britain has to be registered to Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and they in turn provide registration number to those pharmacies. This information has to be provided by online pharmacies on their website. In US, pharmacy checker certificate is used and pharmacy checker id is provided to all online pharmacy which is genuine or legal.

If such information is not provided on their websites you can contact the affiliate manager of online pharmacy affiliate program and ask for such information to them. If he is satisfying your query, you can go ahead; however if he could not satisfy your query, it is safe to back out from their partnership. 

Why is legal information so important for online pharmacy affiliate program? 

Online pharmacy may sell any kind of medication without knowing the patients and this may be very dangerous to the health of patients. Thus it is very important to have some verification before joining any affiliate program and selling their medicines. If any online pharmacy is genuine they will never think of getting involved in selling any kind of medication to any one, instead they will get few details of patients (medical history or prescription from doctor) through online consultation in terms of questionnaire and then they will send it to doctors for evaluation and ship the medications on an approval of doctor. However few online pharmcies are not interested in any kind of medical history  of patients and ship medications simply by following 2 or 3 clicks followed by payment. This can be very dangerous for the patients health. This is where affiliates can help people to get better treatment and contribute to genuine online pharmacies thorough their pharmacy affiliate programs or health affiliate programs.

What are Affiliate Networks?

An affiliate network acts as an intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and merchant affiliate programs. Many times affiliate networks provides affiliate marketing program platform to the merchants to allow them to enter in affiliate marketing world.

Affiliate networks usually allow various webmasters or internet users to join their networks at free of costs and participate in affiliate programs which are suitable to their websites. They have few minimum requirements and as a webmaster you need to fit to those requirements and you can enjoy earning with affiliate networks. Thus you don't have to go and visit individual websites or read about affiliate programs or go to forums to find out which affiliate programs will be suitable for you? You can get many online merchants available there in affiliate networks and you can choose any of them in any numbers and start promoting their products. Thus publishers find it very easy to find and participate in affiliate programs using affiliate networks.

However, if this is the biggest advantage for affiliate networks there is also a big disadvantage with them. You will certainly have very tough competition in promoting products. All experienced and veteran internet marketers would also be promoting same merchant and products which you are promoting as they also must be belonging to those networks. Also affiliate networks ask for few % on every transaction an affiliate provide to merchants thus you as an affiliate you may get lesser % commission with networks compared to what you can get with those merchant’s in house affiliate programs.

Merchants by joining such affiliate networks get rid of various activities like recruiting affiliates, promoting affiliate programs, managing transaction and thus they prefer joining such networks.

There are few online sellers who don't have their own in house affiliate programs who actually joined such affiliate networks to get exposure of affiliate programs. Few merchants or online sellers have their in house affiliate program but even though they joined affiliate networks to get more exposure. Of course the commission amount they must be providing would be lesser compared to their in house program as they have to share it with affiliate networks as well. However some may provide equal commission in both networks as well as in house affiliate programs. And there are few online sellers who are having their own in house affiliate programs and never prefer to join any affiliate networks. There can be two reasons for it: Either they are doing well with their in house affiliate programs or sometimes affiliate networks may not support few products which they are catering too.

For merchants, affiliate network provides various services like tracking technology, reporting tools, payment processing, and access to a large base of publishers. Merchants also have to pay few capital amount or basic fee to join affiliate networks.

Let's look deep into business model of affiliate networks: Affiliate networks acts as intermediary between publisher and merchants. They earn revenue by:

• Charging merchants sing up fees, may be monthly fees in some cases depending upon the service they provide.
• Charging merchants certain percent of commission on total sales amount referred by the affiliates from their network.

Affiliate networks basically provides a platform where publishers (affiliates) and merchants (online seller) unite with each other by generating revenue from online sellers and providing excellent services to both online sellers and affiliates.

Pharmacy Affiliates

Pharmacy affiliates are the one who are promoting one or more number of pharmaceutical products on their own website or blogs or to their network on various social networking sites. So are they all doctors or general practitioner or nurse or having any suitable degree to write on pharmaceutical products? The answer is No.

You don't need to be doctor or GP to join any pharmacy affiliate programs or health affiliate programs. You simply need to be a webmaster or a blogger or at least active on internet world. However you should be aware about the products you are promoting. You should be aware about what audience you are targeting. This will not only help your visitor get better involvement with your website but it will help you get better click through as an affiliate and increase the probability of getting commission. Ideally people who know about the products can write positive points of the products at its best and help people looking out for such information to get that product at best price. 

Also pharmacy affiliates are the highest earner among all the affiliates catering to various kinds of different affiliate programs. The commission that pharmacy affiliates earns is much more than the commission with other affiliate programs and it makes the pharmaceutical products as the best choice among the affiliates.

More money brings more risk - that is absolutely true. Thus if you have a great opportunity as a pharmacy affiliates you are bound to have few risks as well. Thus, it is very necessary to do some research before getting involved with pharmacy affiliate programs. 

I think you are now getting worried and thinking of not getting involved with pharmacy affiliate programs. If you are doing so you are making a big mistake. The research means knowing more about pharmaceutical products that are being sold online, knowing more legal information of online pharmacy with whom are you going to work, verifying whether they are selling brand medicines or generic medicines and finally making sure whether the online pharmacy is genuine and legal or they are fake. Not to worry you don't have to go anywhere to find out this information. Just go through our websites wherein you will find various information like "Getting legal information of online pharmacy", "How to identify genuine online pharmacy?", "What are brand and generic medicines?", etc. which will provide you few guidelines to choose the best and genuine online pharmacy affiliate programs. 

We will try to answer all the possible questions of pharmacy affiliates and helps you to get best pharmacy affiliate programs.

If as an pharmacy affiliate, you work with genuine online pharmacy you have don't have to face any kind of risk however you will always have only excellent opportunities waiting for you. Thus pharmacy affiliate programs are for sure the best possible way of earning money online without any kind of risk if you as an pharmacy affiliate follow few precautions.

Pharmacy Affiliate Program

Pharmacy Affiliate Programs are also known as Health Affiliate Programs. There are several kinds of pharmacy affiliate programs available on the internet. You may categorize pharmacy affiliate programs depending upon the treatments which they use. There are pharmacy affiliate programs catering to pills like Cialis, Viagra and Levitra which are the pills for erectile dysfunction or impotency in male which can be categorized as male impotency affiliate program or ED affiliate program. These three pills are the highest selling pills on internet and provide a very good opportunity for webmasters or affiliates to earn easy and fast commission.

Another section which provides highest earning opportunity in pharmacy affiliate programs is weight loss pills. They are sometimes even known as weight loss affiliate program. There are various weight loss pills available online some of them are herbal, some of them are prescription based, some are over the counter and some are natural products. Of all these various kinds of weight loss pills Xenical and Reductil pills are the best selling pills on internet which are given to only obese patients and should not be used to loose extra weight if one is not obese. Since they are clinically proven weight loss pills for Obese people having BMI more than 30, both these can help affiliates to earn excellent commission if target genuine online pharmacy.

While promoting such medicines which can have its own side effects every affiliates should follow some basic rules to check whether the online pharmacy which they are promoting are genuine or not? Like some online pharmacy may sell Reductil and Xenical to people who are not obese, some may sell Cialis, Viagra to women and people taking nitrate medication. This is a small test to be conducted before selling these kinds of medication. Therefore, unless an online pharmacy provides a questionnaire for consultation, you should not promote them, as for the safety of people buying them. See how online pharmacy affiliate programs works?

Apart from these two treatments, some other treatments that pharmacy affiliate programs include are:

• Influenza - Tamiflu which has created a boom in time of swine flu and the affiliate programs catering to Tamiflu was also promoted as Tamiflu Affiliate Program.
• Smoking Cessation - Champix
• Female Sexual Dysfunction - Intrinsa Patch

Online pharmacy affiliate program has a very bright future and can actually help affiliates to get the best return of their efforts they put in promoting pharmacy products. As an affiliate if you work with genuine online pharmacy you don't have to worry about getting trapped or any kind of legal issues however if you are trapped with any fake or rogue pharmacy you can be in trouble. Thus before joining any pharmacy affiliate program please read our section discussing various points on "Getting legal information of online pharmacy" and "How to identify genuine online pharmacy?

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is one of the internet marketing strategy mostly used now a days. Affiliate Marketing is an excellent way to earn money for people on the internet and a most affordable option for online sellers to reach to the customers with pay for performance pricing model.

In simple words affiliate marketing is the promotion of other peoples (merchants/online sellers) products in return of the compensation in terms of commissions. For webmasters, bloggers, web 2.0 users it is the easiest and fastest way to make money online. You just have to refer visitors or customers to online seller's (merchant's) website and you can earn commission if visitor referred by you makes a purchase on merchant's website. Merchant in turn gets customer, new orders and will have to pay to affiliates only if merchants has generated any revenue. That is why it is some time also known as pay for performance technique in internet marketing world.

So now that you are clear what affiliate marketing is you must be wondering who can be an affiliate? Any one who is having their own website, their own blog, actively participating in social networking sites, having email database, having some knowledge about internet marketing can become affiliate. Affiliate have to put banners or text links of merchant's products on their website, blogs, emails, their post in forums, social networking sites, etc and if any of the visitor clicks on it he/she will be redirected to merchant's website. Once a visitor referred by you is redirected to merchant's website you just have to wait for commission, rest of the task of motivating a visitor to purchase and handling entire transaction is merchant's responsibility.

Affiliate marketing have grown from allowing affiliates to just putt banners and links on site to allowing affiliates to handle a complete online stores. Now affiliates does not want only banners and links in any affiliate programs but they want templates which they can use to promote their products, they want complete online stores on which entire transactions takes place with merchant's back end and they want them to be looked upon as a partner rather than just a affiliate.