It only took 48 hours to hear back from CyberSitter, as discussed in my earlier entry to Free Web Money, and the response detailed three different choices for joining their program, the most interesting of which is:

"The general Affiliate program provides a link to a CYBERsitter order form where your customers can order CYBERsitter for an immediate download or have it shipped to them. You will create the page that includes the link we provide. You receive a 20% commission on the $39.95 retail price for every net order placed through the link. This is paid quarterly. You will need to maintain 25 sales a month for the link to remain active and receive commission"

This is an unusual affiliate program because they have a minimum requirement for sales that's fairly high and they require you building your own Web order form page.

The question that I'm going to ask them is why not have an affiliate program that allowed affiliates who sell 5-10 packages/month? If you do the math, each sale should net an affiliate $7.99, so even ten sales/month means that the quarterly payment would be around $239. Seems worth their while because the point of an affiliate program it to gain additional sales. Any sales.

And while we wait for that response, it's time to look for another choice with parental control software affiliate programs. So it's back to Google and another search for +"parental control software" +affiliate +"sign up", which yields another possibility, Guardian Software.

Highly rated by PC World, they also say that their affiliate program is managed by a third party (which means that they probably don't have such difficult affiliate criteria as CYBERsitter). Further, they pay 35% of the retail price (which is $39.95), so that's good too.

As with all programs of this nature, I read through the legal small print and signed up. Upon filling out the form properly, I was instantly presented with an affiliate link I can use:

<a href="http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/grd/t.asp?id=1227">
YOUR TEXT HERE</a>

Certainly easy enough, and with a text link you can incorporate it into your site design as you desire, including just simply including please click here to buy Guardian Monitor today!.