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Backend Affiliate Products Perfect for Offliners

by McBrett
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This might help out a few of you doing web design, SEO, PPC, or other internet marketing services for businesses. If you provide any of these services, you're probably been asked for recommendations on hosting, domain registration, and other related products.

Making recommendations for the following affiliate products are a super easy way to create an additional revenue stream for your business. A few of these even offer recurring commissions which means you'll be developing a more and more consistent income the longer you do this.

Here are a few places to get started with referring products to small businesses. Each offer commissions and are quality products you can feel comfortable recommending to others.

Do you know of any more affiliate programs that work well for offliners? Leave them in the quotes because I'm always looking for more of these.

Design:

LogoNerds.com - 25% commission on each sale. Really cheap logo design.

99Designs.com - After you make a sale for a web design to a client. Just mark up the price of a 99Designs.com website.

Domain Registration:

GoDaddy.com - As you probably already know, GoDaddy has an incredible upsell process when purchasing a domain. You're offered email, search engine submission, SSL certification, private registration and a grab bag of other services during the check out process that can increase the value of each order. Also, GoDaddy has great customer service.

1&1.com - This affiliate program lets you give out coupon codes for 6 months of free hosting with a domain registration. This can be a great incentive for people to register a domain through your link.

Hosting:

BlueHost.com - Everybody needs hosting and BlueHost offers a whopping $65 per referral. How awesome is that?

E-mail Marketing:

aWeber.com - Not everyone of your clients is going to be building an email list (although most probably should be). However, if you can convince your client of the benefits you could get a nice recurring source of revenue for your efforts.

There are a lot more opportunities like this out there that I haven't mentioned or don't know about. What are some of the affiliate programs you've tried that work well for offliners?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dexx
    Most of that I would just say to do yourself FOR the client and markup the price far beyond any affiliate payment.

    i.e. Instead of getting $65 for referring a new client to a hosting company (which will make hundreds/thousands over the lifetime of the hosting)...you are better off getting your own reseller account/VPS and having the client pay YOU to host them.

    Gives you much more control and then you can continue to package and bundle additional services and solutions in it with them.

    Same goes with graphic design work etc. you charge them $300 and then you pay $47 to logo-nerds (I did this for a local Tire Shop that wanted a new logo) ...beats making just 25% of $47 right? =)

    I dunno, food for thought, but its another thing that separates those making $$$$ from those making $$.

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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
      Originally Posted by Dexx View Post

      Most of that I would just say to do yourself FOR the client and markup the price far beyond any affiliate payment.

      i.e. Instead of getting $65 for referring a new client to a hosting company (which will make hundreds/thousands over the lifetime of the hosting)...you are better off getting your own reseller account/VPS and having the client pay YOU to host them.

      Gives you much more control and then you can continue to package and bundle additional services and solutions in it with them.
      ~Dexx
      You have a point about the amount of revenue (though HostGator pays much more than $65 per referral) but I've found hosting my clients to be way more trouble than it's worth. The difficulty is that they expect free support, just as they would get from the hosting provider if they signed up directly.

      I'd much rather get my referral fee and make it clear that the hosting company provides free support. Then if the client needs a higher level of support than the company provides, they can come to me, and at that point they'll expect to pay.
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  • Profile picture of the author mr2monster
    I'm with Steve on hosting clients...

    I'd much rather see the short term cash since most of the hosting companies don't offer support for people hosted on reseller accounts (that I've found anyway).

    The other things, however, I'm with Dexx on.

    Also, I tend to pitch Hostgator since 1. They have remarkable customer support, and I like my clients to be taken care of, and 2. They pay more than $65 per referral.
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      I would steer completely away from affiliate products for offline clients. Many of them are savvy enough to know the brands, and it will cut into your credibility, IMO. In addition, you have no control over quality of service and customer contact. You need to maintain your relationship as the only go to person for all of their requirements. There are many similar services available for white lable or as JV.
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      • Profile picture of the author mr2monster
        Originally Posted by myob View Post

        I would steer completely away from affiliate products for offline clients. Many of them are savvy enough to know the brands, and it will cut into your credibility, IMO. In addition, you have no control over quality of service and customer contact. You need to maintain your relationship as the only go to person for all of their requirements. There are many similar services available for white lable or as JV.

        I disagree... you don't want to be a jack of all trades, master of none in your client's eyes...

        Have your niche, and supplement it with high quality recommendations to companies you can make affiliate commissions on.


        If your business is hosting, well then by all means, be a host. But if you're an SEO provider, there's no reason to be a hosting company too and deal with all those support issues.

        Focus on what you know, become an expert and authority in that niche, and refer out for other things (and make affiliate commissions in the process).

        When you can scale, if you choose to, then add different areas to your brand. But the average one man shop can't be a hosting provider, logo designer, seo specialist, domain registrar, email marketing list provider, and all the while expect their clients to see them as an expert in all those fields.
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  • Profile picture of the author cbest
    I was going to post to this topic in general so will do so here... I see many plr products on health and wellness for example.. where when they're talking abt weight loss or natural cures where they could easily add a resource box to product sites.
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