Affiliates: What can I give you so you're happy and motivated?

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Hi fellow Warrior's,

I recently finished creating my first product + website + sales page etc...

I've been working extremely hard to create an awesome product (took me 9 months!)

At the moment it's listed on clickbank and there are hardly any affiliates promoting it.

Since it's a new product and it's not about IM....

What I want to know is what I could give affiliates so they are happy and willing to promote my product?

And where could I recruit more affiliates other than clickbank?

My niche is over 50's (Baby boomers, seniors) and my product is about teaching people how to use facebook.

Thanks Guys and Gals
#affiliates #give #happy #motivated
  • Profile picture of the author techservice
    You can put it up in the affiliates section. Give us the CB marketplace search term and I will see if it looks worth promoting.
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Affiliate graphics are always helpful - and in a range of sizes. Which alternatively means "do as I say, not as I do", as I only provide one size!

      An article or two might help, although I personally wouldn't use them - but I guess some do.
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      • You need to build relationships with affiliate and find them just putting there can work but you need luck I find them myself it's worked much better at least for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Afreidman View Post

    What I want to know is what I could give affiliates so they are happy and willing to promote my product?
    For myself, I have a little 10-point checklist of requirements (I suspect - and have often been told - that many of them are shared by serious affiliates), to promote a Clickbank product: you can read it here, if it helps.

    Originally Posted by Afreidman View Post

    And where could I recruit more affiliates other than clickbank?
    As far as serious affiliates go, that might have to be "instead of Clickbank" rather than "in addition to Clickbank", Afreidman. Very few serious affiliates will be willing to promote a Clickbank product that's openly sold elsewhere. (Would you?). The affiliates' problem here is that our prospective customer (with our Clickbank cookie on his PC), not having bought at his first visit to the sales page (which most don't, of course), can find the product again the following week via a Google search, which then takes him to the PaySpree/PDC/E-Junkie/whatever sales-page, and our Clickbank cookie is no good to us there.

    If the Clickbank sales-page is the only sales-page (as is usually the case, of course), we still get paid, even if the customer gets back to that page via Google. This is why vendors on Clickbank who have another sales page elsewhere, or another non-Clickbank way to pay, can attract only affiliates who haven't quite thought it through. Call me a judgmental skepchick but I would venture to suggest that those are perhaps not the affiliates whom many vendors would ideally wish to attract?

    In other words: it will make a difference to some affiliates, but those will typically be the ones who make most of the affiliate-referred sales.

    There's a kind of way round it, but it involves repackaging the product under another name (some vendors do this). This can work, but you can also get a few refund requests from people who've inadvertently bought it twice, and it might be less than ideal for "goodwill".
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Haughney
    To answer your question about 'what materials to provide affiliates', I'm very busy doing lots of different things and as such the product owner must make it easy for me to promote their product. For example, you must provide the basics like different banner ad sizes and also provide things like Auto-responder sequences I can drop into my own auto-responder. Sample articles are also a big plus, as I can re-use them, and any conversion data you can provide will also help.
    Just sign up as an affiliate to some of the top products on Clickbank to get an idea on what they provide. For me a great benchmark for Affiliate materials is the Fat Loss market. The sellers in this market provide some of the best Affiliate support. On top of all the materials provided they are constantly sending our results of Split tests they do on Sales pages etc. This is priceless information, which you can also use on other affiliate promotions too.
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    • Profile picture of the author awiki
      I tried signing up for your affiliates tools, but it just took me back to the same page. Did you intend that?
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