Getting non-responsive affiliates to respond to you .
One reason behind non-responsive affiliates could be the powerful spam catchers used by most ISPs. Your Welcome Letter or other e-mails may not be getting through to their intended recipients as a result. (AOL is notorious for preventing ordinary e-mails from getting through, clumping them in with spam.)
Try taking URLs out of the body of your e-mail and put them into an e-mail attachment. When I did that, I was able to get more e-mails through. Another way is to disguise the URL by replacing the punctuation with words, so that the filter cannot recognize it as a Website address and mistake it for spam. For example:
http(colon)//www(dot)name of site(dot)com
This works so long as you explain to your recipient the reason why you have to do this--without using the word "spam"!
One more thing. Lack of response from new Affiliates may just mean more persistence on our part is needed to "woo" them. Keep in touch, e-mailing about once every week or two with an easy-going, upbeat e-mail. Let them know how excited you are to have them on your team, and include a tip about where to find something on the SFI Affiliate site, how to post a classified ad, or some other helpful marketing strategy that has worked for you.
As your new affiliates sense you are serious about helping them get started, they will be much more likely to become serious about taking action.
Try taking URLs out of the body of your e-mail and put them into an e-mail attachment. When I did that, I was able to get more e-mails through. Another way is to disguise the URL by replacing the punctuation with words, so that the filter cannot recognize it as a Website address and mistake it for spam. For example:
http(colon)//www(dot)name of site(dot)com
This works so long as you explain to your recipient the reason why you have to do this--without using the word "spam"!
One more thing. Lack of response from new Affiliates may just mean more persistence on our part is needed to "woo" them. Keep in touch, e-mailing about once every week or two with an easy-going, upbeat e-mail. Let them know how excited you are to have them on your team, and include a tip about where to find something on the SFI Affiliate site, how to post a classified ad, or some other helpful marketing strategy that has worked for you.
As your new affiliates sense you are serious about helping them get started, they will be much more likely to become serious about taking action.