How to Get Affiliates for My Manufacturing Business

Sure, you could go over to commission junction (they changed their name to something cute that I can never remember). They have thousands of affiliates who are eager for a large commission.

Figure out where most of your product will go and get them to sell it for you.

As an example, if it were a motor home I would get brochures made and have RV parks promote it and they get a commission.

So, where does your product end up? Have those people affiliate your product. If they end up on all those 40 acre lots in Colorado for sale then get the guys selling them to sell your product and make double commissions.

I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.

Patrick

You can run your own affiliate program in-house using a software like iDevAffiliate. To attract affiliates you would certainly want to give an appealing compensation package with repeat commissions for all future business any referred customer transacts for the life of the customer, and a 2nd tier for new affiliates that existing affililiates refer. iDevAffiliate can also handle that. If/when you set up a program let me know if you want it to appear on my site and I'll be glad to check it out.

You got options.

1. There are alot of Affiliate networks like Clickbank, Jv zoo, Commission Junction, etc that have a list for their affiliates.. And if you contact the network you can get them to email their list promoting your offer..

This is going to be a FAST way to put it in front of thousands of affiliates at once.

2. You can also go to Affiliate events like Affiliate Summit and get a booth, or just pass out tons of cards.

3. As mentioned earlier, you can get your offer listed on a network like Commission Junction.

4. you can try hiring an affiliate manager to go out there and recruit affiliates for you.You can get him to even set up a contest (give away a free car, cash prizes, higher commission for prime affilaites, etc)

5. You can advertise your offer on JVNotifyPro.com ( you can email his list of affiliates, run a featured post on the page, etc )

6. There are several blogs focused on high ticket affiliate products. Contact the owner about doing a post on your product. Also consider running a banner there

7. You can even run a banner here on Warrior forum. if you did an ad that said something like $20,000 Commission ?! am sure you could get some attention

The best way would be to run your own affiliate program using...

Infusionsoft or..
Ontraport

This is pretty interesting. Let's say you pay out 2K-4K per sale, that's going to attract a very high end affiliate base - and will also attract every high end scammer/exploit possible. Couple that with in-house aff tech and you have a shitstorm waiting to happen .

My biz and aff program are automated thanks to going through an existing aff model/homebase (in my case clickbank - in your case you should call around as you'd be a prime vendor in most bases and would probably get a manager assigned to walk you through all this - or get a consultant to help position you vs blindly doing all this research yourself).

You going in-house with the tech = you looking after all payouts, quantifying leads/traffic/sales, looking after all fraud/chargebacks/scams/falsePositives/affiliate disputes/, you are quicker becoming a smaller margin based chicken with its head cut off doing volume and becoming an aff network and not knowing what you don't know about this world just yet. Instead of just focusing on selling more product and expanding the biz by focusing on the biz/customers. In my peak I had XX,000 aff's, absolute logistical nightmare when an aff program spikes on you .

With an agency/consultant - you're at least protected (better), and give pros the ability to do what they are best at in this world = track + pay + recruit + look after fraud/refunds/CB's/banning bad apples + safely rollout and grow your offer with experience and a proper plan to scale while minimizing ri$k.

Thanks guys I really appreciate the input

Having run an affiliate program myself for about 5 years now (our top end sale is about $3k, so not in the same ballpark, but we're not talking $5 ebooks either).

I wouldn't run it on my own software. I'd use Share-A-Sale, Clickbank or another of the major players to run it. From a business perspective, it will give you another level of security that everyone is behaving well. Yes, there are going to be a shitload of scammers hanging out with this level of payout.

I'd also plan on approaching some of the high traffic blogs and message boards in the niche to try for placements there-again the payout works in your favor and should open doors that most folks around here simply cannot access.

Good luck!

There are many affiliate sites, where many people are available to work with you by the Commission. You can contact with the affiliate sites. then you will find many affiliates programmer. Thanks