Cpa and Sub-affiliates?

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Hi guys

Got another "newbie" question. Offline I run my own business with 8 employee's. I see on different networks products with decent payouts. I was wondering if it is possible to recruit sub-affiliates to promote offline and cut your own payout. If so how do you manage/ track sub-affiliate sales since networks only provide one id link? I would love any ones take on this and their experience if they apply the same method. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author badboy_Nick
    Originally Posted by slickback View Post

    Hi guys

    Got another "newbie" question. Offline I run my own business with 8 employee's. I see on different networks products with decent payouts. I was wondering if it is possible to recruit sub-affiliates to promote offline and cut your own payout. If so how do you manage/ track sub-affiliate sales since networks only provide one id link? I would love any ones take on this and their experience if they apply the same method. Thanks
    Yep, you can do that.

    Best thing to do though is approach a merchant directly, and tell him you can send more leads. All you then need is to build a simple database with dedicated forms for each affiliate. This can be coded for a few hundred bucks, as lead delivery should be via email. Then you count up all the leads sent by the affiliate, take your cut on top and voila.

    Just make sure you ARE the network and dont go THRU an already existing network as you add an extra layer which cuts into your margins.

    If you need some more info about this just PM me
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenster
    Originally Posted by slickback View Post

    Hi guys

    Got another "newbie" question. Offline I run my own business with 8 employee's. I see on different networks products with decent payouts. I was wondering if it is possible to recruit sub-affiliates to promote offline and cut your own payout. If so how do you manage/ track sub-affiliate sales since networks only provide one id link? I would love any ones take on this and their experience if they apply the same method. Thanks

    When I was new I had a whole system set up that did exactly that. It was very basic and revolved around sub-ids but I had an army of sub affiliates.

    Made decent money but not worth the work and as I said, I was new and working very manually at that point..nothing was streamlined.

    Cool concept though!
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  • Profile picture of the author slickback
    Thanks for the advice guys. Nick I will definitely be PMing you soon
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  • Profile picture of the author arslih
    i found these informations very helpful
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by slickback View Post

    Hi guys

    Got another "newbie" question. Offline I run my own business with 8 employee's. I see on different networks products with decent payouts. I was wondering if it is possible to recruit sub-affiliates to promote offline and cut your own payout. If so how do you manage/ track sub-affiliate sales since networks only provide one id link? I would love any ones take on this and their experience if they apply the same method. Thanks
    Questions like this always need to go through your AM, this is vary offer by offer, in most cases it will be ok, but you need to confirm it first! The last thing you need is to go through a bunch of work to find out it's not allowed and then you don't get paid!
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  • Profile picture of the author slickback
    Hi Chris,
    I definitely agree about checking with my AM first. However I think I may take Nick's advice and try going directly to the merchant rather than through a Network. This maybe a foolish,overambitious plan but I figure if nothing else and I don't gain a dime, I'm sure I'll gain some knowledge in the process of this!
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    • Profile picture of the author slickback
      Hey Nick

      I don't have enough post to PM you. Is there another way to contact?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kenster
      Originally Posted by slickback View Post

      Hi Chris,
      I definitely agree about checking with my AM first. However I think I may take Nick's advice and try going directly to the merchant rather than through a Network. This maybe a foolish,overambitious plan but I figure if nothing else and I don't gain a dime, I'm sure I'll gain some knowledge in the process of this!

      I like your attitude....not afraid to attack something and if nothing else, you end up more educated!!

      With that said, going directly through the merchant isn't something everybody can do as many merchants will only deal with publishers who can drive a decent amount of traffic. They would rather the networks deal with "little fish". So it's not as easy as just bypassing the middle man sometimes!

      Just something to keep in mind....but def look into it!!
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  • Profile picture of the author chiwawa
    I just love this forum. I just learnt new things with the replies..thanks for posting on here
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  • Profile picture of the author slickback
    Hi Kenster

    I totally hear what you're saying. I kind of had the feeling it wasn't going to be so easy. For that reason I did allot of thinking during the weekend and decided to strategize a plan of action with what is currently accessible to me at this time. This maybe cutting into my profit margin but (at this time) I rather have 10% of something than 100% of nothing .

    Kenster You mentioned earlier that you had a similar set up. The reason I'm so interested in recruiting sub affiliates is because I totally suck at selling! Lucky for me I'm still a smart cookie and I was taught to hire people who are better than I in area's that I lack in.

    As a trial run I hired a sales person to canvas a high foot traffic area of the city and some residential areas. Today he made 2 sales which is roughly $220 as per network payout. I am over the moon excited but now I'm stump as to how I can expand with more sales people. The network I work with does not provide sub-id's and I don't know what tracking system can work with the kind of operation I'm trying to run.

    (sigh) Trying to take over the world is exhaustion! lol
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  • Profile picture of the author williamrs
    You're interested in brokering offers, right? If so, set up a network with Has Offers and start contacting international (India, South America, etc) website owners that have a decent potential. You will probably have to deal with a lot of fraud in the beginning, until you find out who are the good guys, but it can make you some good $$$.


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  • Profile picture of the author slickback
    Hi William

    Yes my idea was brokering off offers to sub affiliates, except focus locally with offline marketing. Not that I am eliminating the idea of using sub affiliates internationally but like you said the risk factor is a little higher! Thanks for the great advice I will be looking into "Has offer" today.
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