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There are dozens of affiliate networks out there… some bad, some good, some great, and publishers can often find it difficult to decide on which one to use.

Motive Interactive recently gave their network an entire revamp, and ordered a paid review on this blog to let people know about it - they’re already one of the trusted affiliate networks in the industry, but with this advertising surge it looks like they’re aiming to become the best.

Dubbed Advent 2.0, Motive Interactive’s interface definitely has the futuristic look - they’ve gone for web 2.0 and its worked, with their backend one of the best I’ve ever seen. I logged in and had a look around, and they appear to have a fair amount of offers, ranging from your standard email / zip submits to offers that pay around $30 - $50.

However, I’m not here to talk about aesthetics - here’s three things that I saw in the email I got about them that YOU should be interested in, as they’re three reasons why Motive Interactive should be looked at before other affiliate networks.

Highest Payouts. Of course, all ad and affiliate networks tend to offer the ‘highest payouts’… but with Motive Interactive, this is actually true. If you find that another network is offering you a better price, all you have to do is let them know and they’ll beat it. With offers specifically hand picked for you by one of the most experienced networks in the business (they’ve been around since 2003) you should be able to make money with them if you’re willing to make a go of it.

5.5% Referral Commissions. The previous highest was around 5% from Market Leverage… however Motive Interactive offer you 5.5% commission on anyone you refer to their network, as long as they don’t go more than a year inactive. As an example, this means that if you refer someone that goes on to make $100/day, you’ll net yourself $165 per month for doing nothing.

Reliable and Negotiable payment schedule. Motive Interactive offer weekly and net-15 payments - now for the former, this is probably for top affiliates only… but the latter isn’t too bad (that’s two payments per month). Other affiliate networks tend to be net-45 or even more, and although they do make it quicker for the top affiliates, you’re not likely to be one of those starting out. Here you can invest comfortably into your affiliate marketing efforts, knowing that if you perform, payment will come to you right on time.

Those are three major things that I liked, but there are some others - they have an easily searchable interface, which you can categorize based on payouts, niche, distribution type and so on. Their rewards program starts at 1%, but raises to 2% if you do well - when you’re making that much money, the rewards don’t tend to mean much but anything extra is always nice.

The last thing (but certainly not the least important) thing that I’m going to mention is their real time tracking… something that is extremely important when you’re running pay per click campaigns or email marketing ones. Basically, your stats update in real time, that is clicks, revenue and so on - you can use this and compare it to the figures that they supply you with (like how the rest of the network on average is doing with certain offers) to supercharge your affiliate marketing efforts.

Here’s a screenshot of their offer search panel:

As you can see, using it is fairly easy. What Motive Interactive also allow is for you to ‘feature’ certain offers on your homepage of your affiliate account… so you can keep the offers you’re interested in running firmly in view.

You can watch the below seven minute video for a video tour of their backend… do let me know how sweet you think it looks

If you are interested in signing up for Motive Interactive (and I suggest you do so, as they’re a trusted network and having more options is always good) you can sign up through this link.

If you’ve got any questions or doubts, feel free to leave a comment - an employee of Motive Interactive will probably check this review from time to time and be more than willing to answer anything you want to ask them.

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