Quick Affiliate Marketing Question

by byalik
2 replies
When you sign up for an affiliate program, they give you a bunch of links, banners, some copy, etc..

What if you want to host a full sales letter on your own server? or host the video and other content on your server? Do you have to get something custom written up yourself since most affiliates don't provide it?

Also for example if a URL for affiliate is like this:
http://3questionsgetthegirl.com/simp.../indexmsit.php

How do they track it if they just capture an email address?
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  • Profile picture of the author zoulkifl
    I recommend that you host it. You don't have have to have things custom written. You may communicate with the owner of the offer and ask permission to copy some of the sales material as long as you are promoting his/her offer.

    The better thing to do if you're serious and are business minded is to build a relationship with your prospects. In order to do that you would have to use your own words, collect emails and communicate with your subscribers. Answer their questions, provide useful quality content while promoting the offer.

    There are many ways to track links. Sellers sometimes provide tracking options on their affilate page. In the case you're doing everything yourself you may want to use google analytics to track your marketing efforts. Your auto responder provider may also have tracking options for the emails you send out.

    Just focus on your sales process in a step by step manner and take action.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by byalik View Post

    What if you want to host a full sales letter on your own server? or host the video and other content on your server?
    Why would an affiliate want to do that? That's the vendor's job, surely?

    If I'm not willing, as an affiliate, to send my traffic to the vendor's sales page, then I promote someone else's product instead. ClickBank alone has over 15,000 products from which I can choose - and that's just one place. The vendor needs me more than I need him: if he can't/won't produce a sales page to which I'm willing to send my subscribers, on his site, then he's lost my business. (Ok, I appreciate that just occasionally there might be a specific product you feel a compelling need to promote, because it's just perfect for your existing subscriber-list, and yet there's still something totally unacceptable and unchangeable on the sales page, but realistically, how often does that happen?).

    Originally Posted by byalik View Post

    Do you have to get something custom written up yourself since most affiliates don't provide it?
    You mean most "vendors"/"merchants" don't provide it, I think? Yes, you do have to do that - but then again, you're going to need to be able to write something about the product at some point, surely, to pre-sell it to your traffic?

    Originally Posted by byalik View Post

    How do they track it if they just capture an email address?
    Different companies/vendors work in different ways. Some use a cookie-based system (of varying lengths and differing priorities between first/last cookie, if the customer's computer has more than one). Some use IP recognition software.

    If they capture your prospect's email address before payment has been made and your commission earned, you might want to think (at least) twice about promoting the product, for all the reasons explained in such detail throughout this thread (which don't apply only to ClickBank)?
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