Any Tips On Recruiting Affiliates?

Before launching your product, try to email a couple of people who have big authority websites in your niche, and ask them if they would be interested to be an affiliate for your product.

Clickbank doesn't allow product sellers to speak with their affiliates, but you can definitely just message them personally through their website. Ask them to sign up to Clickbank as well since not each person is signed up with the site.

Is your site with the Clickbank platform already?

You don't have to give 75% if you don't want to but go for at least 50% of the commissions.

Here are a few little things it may help you to know, Tommy ...

ClickBank almost certainly won't allow you to list the $100 product until they "know you", i.e. until you have a history of successful trading there. $100 is over their normal limit for a "new vendor". (They do occasionally make exceptions, for people with very successful and reliable vendor-reputations elsewhere: you'd have to ask them).

If you don't use some kind of well-known, reliable affiliate network, the serious, pro-affiliates (the 5% of us who collectively make over 95% of the sales) probably won't even be willing to look at it: "depending on the vendor for payment" is a problem we don't need. We have tens of thousands of products available for us to promote, just at ClickBank, so if you want to attract us, you have to make it very easy and very attractive and very reliable for us. Not trying to sound arrogant, or anything, here, but you need to know that this is simply "the way it is".

I don't know who's given you this impression, but it simply isn't true. Only a minority of products sold on ClickBank offer 75% commissions. 50% and 60% are pretty common, too. (75% commissions on a $97/$100 selling-price are actually pretty rare!).

There are many apposite comments about this, above, though. You need to look at this a little differently from how you're looking at it now.

Just theoretically, if I can sell 3,000 copies of your $45 PDF product, that you can't sell on your own, would you resent paying me 75% commissions? If you do, you might be losing over $30,000 yourself!

Yes and no.

You can, if you want to, elect to "white-list" your affiliates. This means that nobody can become an affiliate without contacting you first. Very, very few vendors do this.

Or you can encourage affiliates to contact you (maybe by offering them something useful in promoting the product?). You can have an affiliate page on your website, you can have wording in your Marketplace listing and/or on your Vendor Spotlight page, all of which encourage affiliates to be in touch with you. Good vendors tend to do this, but not to insist on it.

Good affiliates like to be in contact with the vendor. The reality is that affiliates who don't contact you at all are likely to make very few sales anyway.

By letting them know that, in the ways mentioned above, you'll be incentivizing them to contact you, and that can work well.

The most important thing for you to know, perhaps (albeit that I'm oversimplifying it a little, here, to explain it) is that there are, broadly speaking, two distinct "groups" of affiliates available at places like ClickBank. One group comprises 95% of the people and makes fewer than 5% of the sales. The other group, the serious, pro-affiliates you actually want and need, are fewer than 5% of the affiliates but collectively make more than 95% of the sales. It helps to be aware of this.

Key concept: there's an enormous difference between "attracting as many affiliates as possible" and "making as many affiliate-referred sales as possible", and those two very different aspirations can require different courses of action, from the vendor, too.


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You're welcome, buddy.

It would be super, wouldn't it? Of course, these issues are really not a concern for major networks (well, yes they're a concern, but they're an easily managed one). For most marketers, though, those 2 concerns are paramount.

And your next question will be how to find them.

I can tell you how I do it:

1. Connections
2. Networking

(1) I have people who I trust to refer affiliates to me. (2) When I network (online or offline) I make - in a nutshell - friendships. Some are business, some are less than business, others are a bit of both. Some of these folks fall into the category of affiliate I like, so - blammo - I'm in business.

GRM

Yes; but there's always a risk of someone doing that, anyway, just by selling the product.

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