I really appreciate your ideas for this reversal to the "find affiliates" way of doing things!

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Do any of you know of a working solution for tracking sales if the product or service being affiliate-advertised is not already registered with an affiliate company/program and no affiliate software is being used?

Here's my real world example:
My website promotes billiard/pool instruction, products and services.
So far, I am promoting mostly books and training products that are already part of systems that provide affiliate commission tracking and payment (i.e. Amazon, Ebay, and Commission Junction). However, my industry networking is leading me to some fantastic opportunities to promote 1-on-1 billiard instruction, higher-end billiard hall venues, special events, and more. These billiards/pool industry contacts are already quite successful. However, they are also very receptive to the idea of me promoting them on an affiliate/commission-per-sale basis via specialized, very classy, very niche-specific marketing on my site. Having said that, it's doubtful any of them will warm up to the idea of signing up/paying for Commission Junction or the like or invest time and money in using affiliate software just so my sales can be tracked.

So what would you do? I'd really like to be able to go to these guys and say, "Don't worry. I'll take care of all the behind-the-scenes systems and tracking. As long as you pay me the agreed commission for each sale I lead to you, I'll do all the creative work and all the promotion through my site - and you'll sell more - and you'll love it - and the world will be just dandy."

In essence, businesses with products and services can solicit potential affiliates to be part of their advertising programs. Can this model also be reversed? Is there a successful means by which affiliates can offer their expertise to businesses with products and services, even if those businesses don't initially have implementation for affiliate advertising? It seems that this would give affiliate promoters a much wider, more satsifying range of products and services from which to choose

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and comments!
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