Affiliate Programs

11 years ago

I have not done it but I think listing your products in clickbank would work. I think they handle all the affiliate stuff. Payouts etc... You would have to create your sales page and whatever sales material you want and you will have to do customer support yourself unless you outsource that.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by wolfe655

I think listing your products in clickbank would work.

This.

The "Single Big Issue" for you is to get your affiliate opportunity in front of the successful, pro-affiliates you need to promote your products. Bear in mind that 95%+ of available affiliates make fewer than 5% of the sales, and they can be easy to attract whatever you do. The people who actually matter are the other 5% (or fewer) of affiliates who collectively make 95%+ of the sales. In other words, you need to think in terms of sales numbers, not of affiliate numbers. The mistake to avoid is subjugating other considerations in favor of trying to get "as many affiliates as possible". That isn't how it works.

So far, so obvious? But there's a reason this matters so much: the serious, pro-affiliates are precisely the ones who will see your product only if it's being sold somewhere like ClickBank where they don't have to depend on the vendor for payment. That is "The Big Issue".

Without getting that right, most of the smaller group of pro-affiliates you want won't even be willing to look. They have tens of thousands of other products from which to choose, and are well aware that you need them far more than they need you, and they kind of expect you to be well aware of that, too, and to go about things in an affiliate-friendly way, if you want to get them interested. And that's why setting up your own affiliate program simply doesn't cut it, at all: pro-affiliates can live without payment worries and relying on the vendor, when ClickBank is known to be 100% reliable in that department.

So you need to start off in the right place. (And it isn't "PayDotCom"!

).

I don't say that it necessarily has to be ClickBank, of course ... but it has to be somewhere where affiliates' payments are guaranteed, without vendor-reliance for them. Otherwise nothing else that happens matters very much anyway: you'll be missing the exact affiliates who can produce the real income for you.

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freightbrokertrainer

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This.

The "Single Big Issue" for you is to get your affiliate opportunity in front of the successful, pro-affiliates you need to promote your products. Bear in mind that 95%+ of available affiliates make fewer than 5% of the sales, and they can be easy to attract whatever you do. The people who actually matter are the other 5% (or fewer) of affiliates who collectively make 95%+ of the sales. In other words, you need to think in terms of sales numbers, not of affiliate numbers. The mistake to avoid is subjugating other considerations in favor of trying to get "as many affiliates as possible". That isn't how it works.

So far, so obvious? But there's a reason this matters so much: the serious, pro-affiliates are precisely the ones who will see your product only if it's being sold somewhere like ClickBank where they don't have to depend on the vendor for payment. That is "The Big Issue".

Without getting that right, most of the smaller group of pro-affiliates you want won't even be willing to look. They have tens of thousands of other products from which to choose, and are well aware that you need them far more than they need you, and they kind of expect you to be well aware of that, too, and to go about things in an affiliate-friendly way, if you want to get them interested. And that's why setting up your own affiliate program simply doesn't cut it, at all: pro-affiliates can live without payment worries and relying on the vendor, when ClickBank is known to be 100% reliable in that department.

So you need to start off in the right place. (And it isn't "PayDotCom"!

).

I don't say that it necessarily has to be ClickBank, of course ... but it has to be somewhere where affiliates' payments are guaranteed, without vendor-reliance for them. Otherwise nothing else that happens matters very much anyway: you'll be missing the exact affiliates who can produce the real income for you.

Best information I have seen here yet. Thank You for the advise.

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Philipg68

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This.

The "Single Big Issue" for you is to get your affiliate opportunity in front of the successful, pro-affiliates you need to promote your products. Bear in mind that 95%+ of available affiliates make fewer than 5% of the sales, and they can be easy to attract whatever you do. The people who actually matter are the other 5% (or fewer) of affiliates who collectively make 95%+ of the sales. In other words, you need to think in terms of sales numbers, not of affiliate numbers. The mistake to avoid is subjugating other considerations in favor of trying to get "as many affiliates as possible". That isn't how it works.

So far, so obvious? But there's a reason this matters so much: the serious, pro-affiliates are precisely the ones who will see your product only if it's being sold somewhere like ClickBank where they don't have to depend on the vendor for payment. That is "The Big Issue".

Without getting that right, most of the smaller group of pro-affiliates you want won't even be willing to look. They have tens of thousands of other products from which to choose, and are well aware that you need them far more than they need you, and they kind of expect you to be well aware of that, too, and to go about things in an affiliate-friendly way, if you want to get them interested. And that's why setting up your own affiliate program simply doesn't cut it, at all: pro-affiliates can live without payment worries and relying on the vendor, when ClickBank is known to be 100% reliable in that department.

So you need to start off in the right place. (And it isn't "PayDotCom"!

).

I don't say that it necessarily has to be ClickBank, of course ... but it has to be somewhere where affiliates' payments are guaranteed, without vendor-reliance for them. Otherwise nothing else that happens matters very much anyway: you'll be missing the exact affiliates who can produce the real income for you.

Thank you for your post as someone new to IM it is very informative ,also could one do a google search to seek out the top affiliate marketers and see if they would cut a deal posting to their list?
philipg68

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Philipg68

could one do a google search to seek out the top affiliate marketers and see if they would cut a deal posting to their list?

Yes ... I think you can do a search for the top affiliates in your niche by identifying the existing, popular products and then putting into Google things like "product X discount" and "buy product Y" and "product Z review", which will take you to many of their affiliate-sites and at least enable you to contact them. But the limitation of that is that it will be showing you only/mostly the affiliates who work with/from SEO traffic, and it will miss out some of the best ones who get non-SEO traffic and don't care much about ranking their sites. I suspect they're better affiliates to find, overall.
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CyberSEO

11 years ago

You don't need any software for that. You can run the affiliate program via services like 2checkout.com, paydotcom.com, nanacast.com and others.

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Roan

11 years ago

Putting your products on affiliate programs is one thing. There is no guarantee that affiliate will promote your product. Launching a product to your email list first is a great way to gain some good statistics that will attract the attention of affiliates.

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johnben1444

11 years ago

Want to be successful at affiliate marketing then you have to find good keywords around your niche. Terms people are most likely going to use to search for your product. Use Google Keyword Planner to ascertain the search volume of the keyword.

Build a site with an opt in or a complete squeeze page.

Traffic traffic to your site using blogs, SE, forums, videos, social medias and other forms...

I prefer to have both kind of sites anyway, gives me upper hand.

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freightbrokertrainer

11 years ago

I am already doing all of those things. I have great SEO, I get good traffic, I utilize Google Ad Words, You Tube Videos, AWeber etc. I have multiple sites targeting either primary keywords or long tail keywords for my niche. I am wanting to start a successful affiliate program with affiliates that will actually promote my product. I am generating what I consider extremely good revenue off of the site each month generally around $7K, I want to take it to the next level.

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RogueOne

11 years ago

I have products that can and will pay high commissions to make it worth peoples time

Digital products? If so, and there is traffic available for affiliates, then place it on all the affiliate networks - ClickBank, JVZoo, Digiresults, etc.

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yakim1

11 years ago

I did not like any of the affiliate program available to day so I created my own. It uses PayPal's adaptive API to pay affiliates and partners instantly at the point of sale.

You sound like you are ready to start an affiliate program of your own. Send me a pm and I may give you a copy to test.

Best regards,
Steve Yakim

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freightbrokertrainer

11 years ago

Originally Posted by yakim1

I did not like any of the affiliate program available to day so I created my own. It uses PayPal's adaptive API to pay affiliates and partners instantly at the point of sale.

You sound like you are ready to start an affiliate program of your own. Send me a pm and I may give you a copy to test.

Best regards,
Steve Yakim

Steve, I am definitely ready to do whatever is necessary to make the jump. I will PM you after my training webinar. It's starting in (10) minutes so I gotta go.

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offerbribe

11 years ago

Originally Posted by freightbrokertrainer

I am looking for help starting affiliate programs. I have products that can and will pay high commissions to make it worth peoples time, I just am not for sure on how to do it. I can buy software etc, what I am looking for someone who has been successful on how to do it already. If anyone has any words of wisdom or ideas please post.

Look into affiliate networks to put your program / products on. They already have a base of publishers who push offers on a daily basis.

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Christian William

11 years ago

From my point of view to put the product in the Click Bank will cost you almost $40, but many marketers will see and therefore have a great chance to market a product at the hands of experts and professionals

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