Increase affiliates

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Broadly speaking, vendors with enough affiliates tend to find that above a certain point, 10% of their affiliates bring in 90% of the affiliate sales, and the other 90% of their affiliates collectively bring in only 10%.

The important mistake to avoid is simply "trying to attract as many affiliates as possible", because vendors who do that tend to end up with only the "90% group", i.e. a large number of affiliates - often temporarily - without ever achieving the sales volume to match.

Bear in mind that there are 3 different types of sources of information about what you've asked: (i) other vendors, (ii) the small minority of successful affiliates (who can offer information about what attracts them to products), and (iii) other affiliates (the majority).

I suspect you're asking vendors, really, from having asked "How do you do it?", and I'm an affiliate, so I'll say no more, for now, anyway - I'm really just "politely prompting" you to appreciate that this is one of the subjects in internet marketing about which the "majority view" may well not be a particularly successful or productive one. And apologies if my observation itself is also unhelpful.