Can I Do This.... Sign Up With Multiple Affiliate Companies

Thanks Rod for the fast reply!

Do you have any suggestions on which program platforms would be worth listing to?

Enjoy,
Mark

Seriously give it a try. List your offer with a few affiliate programs and see which one performs better. Until then you never know and all of this is just speculation.

Not so much, I'm afraid: I'm more a ClickBank girl, myself.

Beware, though, especially with anything cookie-based. This isn't just a ClickBank problem, that I've explained above.

The problem that "using multiple outlets" gives the affiliate is that multiple outlets means multiple payment-pages. What we want to avoid is a situation in which we promote something to a subscriber/visitor who doesn't immediately but it the first time they see the sales page (that's very common: not many people buy things the first time they see the sales page!), and then a couple of weeks later they think some more about it and decide to have another look (often via Google) and they buy it. As the saying goes "it only happens all the time". So, look at it from my perspective as a pro-affiliate: whose product am I going to choose to promote: yours (the one that gives me this common problem that may cost me a lot of commissions) or another vendor's product (that doesn't, because like most people wanting affiliates, he has only one place to pay and that's the place I'm an affiliate, with my affiliate cookie already on the customer's PC). You're the one who's going to lose out, aren't you? From the affiliate's perspective, it's kind of a "no-brainer", Mark.

Please excuse my apparently contentious tone, but I really think this is seriously mistaken advice, for the reason explained just above. And it's not at all what I'd want to do, as a vendor. It can sometimes be a very expensive mistake. The reason for that is that about 5% of the available affiliates typically make about 95% of the affiliate sales, and those are probably exactly the 5% you're going to lose, if you do this.

This. Exactly.

I hear ya

Be aware, though, that the realities of the situation predicate that "having as many affiliates as possible" and "having as many affiliate sales as possible" are two very different (and sometimes directly conflicting) things, and that there are reasons for that.

To put it very mildly indeed, it would be a shame to attract the 95% of the affiliates who make 5% of the sales and to lose the 5% of us who make 95% of the affiliate sales. It's very easily and commonly done. I'm "just saying".

I wish you good luck with it, whatever it is!