How to make money with Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning content management system with over 200,000 community users and contributors. And number of Joomla lovers grows every day. Working with Joomla is not only very exciting and pleased, but also can make you money. If surely you know the methods of Joomla monetising. In this article I will try to describe three the most important ways of earning money on your Joomla business. They are: developing Joomla extensions and templates providing Joomla services advertising with Joomla (affiliate program)

1) Developing Joomla extensions and templates The most profitable way of making money with joomla is developing Joomla extensions and templates. The Joomla market is extremely large, this CMS is used all over the world. The number of potential customers is huge, so you can earn big money. If you feel your strength in web development and have creative ideas on how to improve Joomla do not hesitate to use your chance. But be aware of high competition in this area as there are a lot of companies creating Joomla extensions and templates.

2) Providing Joomla services One more way to make money with Joomla is providing Joomla services. If you are developer who is familiar with a CMS system, you can offer your customers to install or upgrade Joomla website, configure or modify the third-party extensions to needs of a client, make customization of template and so on. Also you may be interested to earn money in providing hosting services, coaching and training services. In order to succeed in this kind of services, you have to be first-class specialist in Joomla area and be ready to compete with giants of this branch.

3) Joomla Affiliate program There are several ways how to earn money without a single knowledge of code. Joomla affiliate program is the best opportunity to do this. Affiliate marketing is one of the best approaches to make money online. So let's look below to understand the key facts about affiliate program in Joomla.

Whereas the first two methods require a strong knowledge in programming, the third method doesn't need such skills and can suit everyone who are interested in making money with Joomla. So we will focus precisely on the third method of Joomla monetising - advertising with Joomla and participating in affiliate programs.

Affiliate marketing has three core players:

• retailer - person or company that provides affiliate program;
• publisher - person who participates in affiliate program;
• customer - person who buys products via affiliate program.

Stages of implementing a Joomla affiliate program:

1. Retailer delivers a range of banners, textual links in affiliate program.
   
2. Publisher registers in program and places banner or text links on their site for individual product, or link directly to the retailer home page.
   
3. Visitors click from the publisher's website to retailer's website and purchase a product.
   
4. Publisher receives a commission.
   

What do you need to have?

• place to promote affiliate products (website, blog, social profiles, email addresses and so on)
• online payment service (PayPal desirable)
• aspiration to make money

To ease your start earm money, we have collected the best Joomla affiliate programs and have sorted them.

Ordasoft	GO TO Ordasoft Affiliate Program	Up to 55%	$100
Joomlashaper	GO TO Joomlashaper Affiliate Program	50%	$50
Bonusthemes	GO TO Bonusthemes Affiliate Program	Up to 50%	$250
Joomlashine	GO TO Joomlashine Affiliate Program	Up to 50%	$100
Smartaddons	GO TO Smartaddons Affiliate Program	Up to 40%	$100
Joomlart	GO TO Joomlart Affiliate Program	Up to 36%	$80
Gavick	GO TO Gavick Affiliate Program	Up to 35%	$200
Rockettheme	GO TO Rockettheme Affiliate Program	Up to 30%	$50
Joomavatar	GO TO Joomavatar Affiliate Program	Up to 30%	$50.00
Joomlashack	GO TO Joomlashack Affiliate Program	25%	$100
Hotjoomlatemplates	GO TO Hotjoomlatemplates Affiliate Program	20%	$20
Pixelparadise	GO TO Pixelparadise Affiliate Program	20%	$20
Joomlabamboo	GO TO Joomlabamboo Affiliate Program	20%	$45
Youjoomla	GO TO Youjoomla Affiliate Program	20%	$100
Shape5	GO TO Shape5 Affiliate Program	20%	$100
Templatemonster	GO TO Templatemonster Affiliate Program	20%	$100
Joomladesigns	GO TO Joomladesigns Affiliate Program	10%	$50

If you know some other Joomla affiliate programs, do not hesitate to contact us via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will add it in our list.
So now when you know how to make money with Joomla! you might be interested in article how to manage affiliate program on the example of Ordasoft affiliate program.

How to succeed
in affiliate marketing

Six tips to maximize the revenue

Below you will find six tips about how to be successful with your affiliate marketing efforts. Following these rules can help you get the maximum return on the time you spend.

First of all, you need to choose your market. The common mistake of many affiliate beginners is that they try to register in all possible programs and advertise everything. Much better is focusing on a specific niche market. Successful promotion requires the knowledge of the advertised area, so you should choose the market you are familiar with and direct all your efforts on it.

One of the most important rules is to pick the right product. Very often mates choose a product which is popular and try to promote it. This method will not guarantee that you will succeed in affiliate marketing because you don't know to whom to advertise it. By selecting more targeted product, you can find more targeted audience and increase the impact of your work. Moreover, competition is lower and more likely that you will be able to succeed promoting this product.

Write good recommendations. Customers don’t want to just see ads. They want to know why you are recommending products and you need to convince them why they NEED the products. Make the product promotion natural and not a big sales pitch.

Test everything and test regularly. Try to use a combination of banners and text links to find what works best on your site and for your customers. Change different placements for banners and see which converts better. For this purpose you can use Google Analytics to measure conversion rates.

Focus on building traffic to your site. Work on your SEO so your site ranks organically in search engines. Then try a PPC campaign and have your ads linking to relevant content on your site. Just be careful of Trademark policies of the merchants that you’re an affiliate of. Many companies will not allow you to bid on their brand names, so make sure you read through the affiliate agreements carefully.

Don't give up. Affiliate marketing takes time to grow, so don’t expect the sales to come overnight. As with any other business venture, you have to put in an effort in order to reap the rewards. While you can find many “get rich quick” programs online stating that all you have to do is become an affiliate and you’ll be an instant millionaire, they always have a catch. But by following the above tips and working hard at it, you can be very successful at affiliate marketing.

By following these six principles you should be able to maximize the amount of money that you can earn from your online affiliate marketing. Remember to keep realistic earnings expectations about your affiliate commissions, and do not be discouraged if you do not succeed at making money right away.

So now you can easily use this tips to OUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM

How to manage affiliate program

We will try to explain how to manage affiliate program on the example of Ordasoft affiliate program (VM Affiliate software). We would like to begin with registration procedure.

1. After clicking on the button "Become an affiliate" you should fill your account info and affiliate details (all mandatory fields are marked asterisk) and agree to the affiliate program terms.

2. Next you have to note the payment method that is convenient to you.

After finishing the registration procedure you will see the administration panel of the affiliate program:

At the top of the picture you can see your ID number. Please note it as you can easily create affiliate links with its help. The affiliate URL is URL that leads on the Ordasoft website and indicates on you if someone buys Ordasoft products from this link (using the ID 3502). Also you can create affiliate links on every Ordasoft product.

For example, if you want to promote real estate template OS World Property, you have to get the link:

http://ordasoft.com/Joomla_templates/Real-Estate-templates/october-2013-world-property.html
and add the formula ?aff_id=3502 in the end.

So your affiliate link will be:
http://ordasoft.com/Joomla_templates/Real-Estate-templates/october-2013-world-property.html?aff_id=3502
Surely you should substitute your ID number.

In the Summary you can see the number of clicks, unique clicks, the number of sales and total balance. Note that money is paid after reaching the payout threshold in the sum of $100.

In the Banners & Ads you will find the full list of Ordasoft's banners. You have just to copy the HTML code (that already contains your affiliate code) and paste in your website.

Note that you can use not only banners, but also text links by adding ?aff_id=3205 (where 3502 is your affiliate identification code) in the end of any Ordasoft template or extension link.

Also there is a possibility for sending mass emails in the affiliate program. If you know people which may be interested in Ordasoft's products, you have to type the e-mail addresses of them in the box, separated by commas (e.g: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and write a message of recommendation that contains affiliate link.

In section Traffic you can track IP Address of visitors, referring URL, date and time of visits. This may help you to manage better your affiliate. In Sales you can track the order ID, order subtotal, confirmed and paid orders, date and time of orders. In Payments you can track the payment method, amount, confirmed payment or not and date of payment.

Now you can register in Ordasoft affiliate program here.