Recruiting Clickbank Affiliates for E-Book

There are many ways to recruit affiliates. One way is to find ezine publishers in related niches and offer them a review copy and a large commission if they decied to publish a review.

Another way is to spy on your competitors. Find competing products and track down that products affiliates and approach them with a good offer.

Offer every one of your customers who buy a chance to become an affiliate.

There are three quick ways, I'm sure others will chip in with other methods who aren't feeling as lazy as I am right now.

You can post it here, on Digital Point, and on Niche Choppers...

But before doing so I would strongly recommend you do your own conversion testing - drive your own traffic and create a couple hundred sales, then release your stats and you will get interest. If you just announce your new ebook on the forums without conversion proof then who cares...

But generally yes, as a new product owner it is an uphill batlle to get affiliates... why would anyone promote someone who is brand new, with no experience selling online, with no conversion proof, a brand new untested product... when they can promote someone who shows proof, has spent 4 years selling online and knows their market inside out... but it is possible of course, you just have to contact people one by one, and keep pushing your updated conversion stats.

Good luck, it's a long road, but can be a rewarding one!

The single most important thing you need to know, to the exclusion of everything else, if necessary, is that you have to start this process from a point of having a finished sales-page with a good conversion-rate for targeted traffic.

Everything else comes after that.

Otherwise you can put an enormous amount of energy, time, effort, cost and work into producing something that can attract affiliates but not retain them. And that simply wastes your own time.

You have to have a product that sells well on its own before seeking affiliates. Don't imagine that affiliates will produce sales of your product that you didn't manage to produce on your own. They can produce far more of them, but that's a very different matter: the sales themselves have to be there to start with.

Your sales page and product are certainly not going to convert my traffic if they can't first reliably convert yours, are they?

So, congratulations on your successful weight-loss, and very best of luck with the entire production, but you're a long way from being concerned about affiliates, just at the moment. It sounds as if you have all the sales copy creation and split-testing still ahead of you ...

This can certainly be true, to some extent, for well-known vendors with a highly successful track-record. But even so, it's only recruiting affiliates that's easy for them - not retaining those affiliates if the product doesn't convert their traffic.

One way, I know this sounds not great, is to offer 100% commission. You will find more affiliates plus it gives you more exposure for branding (in theory you should sell more because more affiliates have signed up) so a follow up product by yourself should enter the market quicker.

More importantly, 100% commission should encourage more affiliates, so you can build a bigger list through the sales funnel.