Two Affiliate Questions... How Do You Feel About These Sales Tactics?

[tmdassc]

As an affiliate marketer for any product, do you feel that a vendor putting an affiliate sign-up link on the product you're promoting sales page lose you sales because the people sign up as affiliate and order through their own affiliate link?

As a vendor, how do you fee about giving someone 35% - 75% of their money back in affiliate commissions for your products they buy through their own affiliate links, or are you just happy with making a small profit?

Is there a remedy for this from affiliates and vendor's side that would be satisfactory to both ?

[mikemcmillan]

Well, if you are selling as an affiliate, your best defense is to offer exceptional bonuses to visitors who order through one of your links. Sure, people may sign up as affiliates to get a discount (commission) on the product--but if you offer a super bonus, they will lose out on your bonus if they fudge their affiliate link into the scheme of things.

Suppose you are promoting a $27 ebook. Someone gets to your page and considers becoming an affiliate so they can get a 50% discount/ (commission). Now they can get it for $13.50. The question becomes whether your bonus is worth more than $13.50 to them.

Even if a low-lifer does this, they still have to pay full price for the product at the time they buy it--they would get their 50% commission only at the end of the next 2-week pay cycle if it is a Clickbank product.

[Rus Sells]

Keep in mind that the default payment threshold for Clickbank is $100. Now thinking they are being smart they might not realize they can change the minimum payment threshold to $10 buck but then they'd still have to pay $2.50 to have the check cut to them.

I honestly think there are more pressing issues that marketers face today with their products, and that's leaving their ebooks on servers that aren't secure, which means any one who knows how to do the Google can find them and down load them for free!