CJ Affiliate vs. Mindmatrix Bridge

CJ would be a great place for any publisher looking to monetize their blog or social media accounts. Products that have broad targeting or rely on bargain hunters would perform really well as there are tons of coupon sites and fashion blogs. Niche products would have a harder time growing as they would probably still need to do a lot of outreach.

Incentivized

I would only recommend Mindmatrix as a short term solution for companies that want to take advantage of the ready made drip campaigns for their vertical.

• their portal is easily usable
• communication within the system is supper easy
• searching for new affiliates is really great

Incentivized

• Drip campaigns ready to go for several Industries

• It's a great platform but have selected countries.
• Sometimes loading speed is too slow in my experience.
• Customer service needs to be improved in my opinion.

Incentivized

• Navigation is confusing, not intuitive.
• Creating and changing users must be done by a ticketing request.
• Horrific support, all email and overseas, rarely talk to anyone.
• There are issues in practically every area. There are inconsistencies with sharing of contacts, sharing of client and CRM data. For example, only the owner of the campaign can see reports on that particular campaign. There are sharing inconsistencies throughout the entire program that just do not make sense.
• There is also an unusually high amount of undelivered mail, and a very high SPAM occurrence. Much higher than our backup, MailChimp for example.

There are a lot of bugs and poor design in this product.

CJ definitely has the largest pool of publishers and is well built out in terms of features. However, it does appear that they have a lot of dead weight in their pool which is something that their competitors claim they have solved. We ultimately selected CJ because we had previous experience with the platform and wanted to tap into their affiliate pool.

Incentivized

I selected Mindmatrix solely based on the content they had available for our vertical.

• we have been able to make a good amount of money
• we just share the link and then the companies do the rest

Incentivized

• Drip campaigns can be started right away because there are prebuilt templates for our vertical.